Then Mr Garang's second-in-command, Riak Machar, tried to overthrow him, and the movement split.
That fundamental departure from traditional doctrine has split the republican movement.
In any event, Mr Sadr's movement is split between pragmatists who want to win a modicum of power by co-operating with the new order and a more militant wing that prefers messianic declarations and last stands.
That was devastating for the rebel movement: it split and the Sudanese government recaptured almost all its territory.
But Mr Prentice had a warning for those in the union movement who wanted to split with Labour.
"For now, that is just one of the many Berlusconi announcements which Italians have got used to, " Italo Bocchino, a former Berlusconi ally whose party defected from the movement in a bitter split said according to AP.
This contributed to the split within the National Front and to the movement's subsequent electoral decline.
Failure to convict Mr Suharto would be seen as a failure of the reform movement that toppled him and is now itself deeply split.
His Fatah movement, based in the West Bank, is deeply split from Hamas, which governs Gaza.
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But Bersani's party is largely split, and the third biggest force in Parliament, the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement led by comic Beppe Grillo, is pushing another candidate, a constitutional law expert.
The grass-roots movement known as Lavalas (avalanche) that swept Mr Aristide to victory in 1990 is split.
There seems to be no movement towards agreement on any number of critical issues facing the country, including how to split up oil proceeds.
Correspondents say the youth movement - hailed as heroes in the aftermath of Hosni Mubarak's downfall - has since split into two factions.
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