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Africa-Press – South-Sudan. <\/strong><\/span> <\/b>The daughter of South Sudanese SPLA commander Arok Thon Arok who died in a 1998 plane crash has said that she thinks her father\u2019s death and the whole accident in which he and others died was pre-planned.<\/p>\n

In February 1998, a Sudanese military plane carrying the country\u2019s first vice-president Gen. Zubeir Mohamed Saleh and other senior government and military officials including Arok Thon Arok crashed at Nasir town of the presence day South Sudan.<\/p>\n

Then information minister Brigadier Mohamed Kheir \u2013 one of the few survivors \u2013 said the plane came down due to bad weather.<\/p>\n

The rebel SPLA led by Dr. John Garang claimed it downed the plane, but then rushed to withdrew the claim.<\/p>\n

Speaking in a documentary aired by Al Jazeera on Friday, May Arok Thon Arok said she believes her father\u2019s death and the whole incident was pre-planned because she was was informed of the risk his father\u2019s life would be in taking the trip.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can say that it was planned accident because prior to my father\u2019s departure, someone called me and told me that it is me only who can convince my father,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe told me that my father should not take tomorrow\u2019s trip. I came at around 5:00PM after taking his dinner and entered to him and he told me that \u2018I am travelling\u2019 going to Bor, Malakal. I told him not to take that trip and he said that nothing and he would go.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter the incident, I remembered the advice that I should advice my father against going and that I understood that it was an orchestrated accident,\u201d she added, claiming that she had information of fire exchange between Zubeir and her father\u2019s bodyguard.<\/p>\n

But Dr. Lam Akol Ajawin one of the survivors of the plane crash who was then a senior government official having joined the Khartoum regime alongside Riek Machar in 1997 denied claims of fire exchange within the plane and said it was purely a weather issue.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was no exchange of power inside the plane, these are just speculations and it is baseless,\u201d he told the Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n

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