From the voices of children on the
run...
“On the way to Ethiopia the first time, it
had been the extreme dry season when we went through Pochala.
Now with the heavy rain day and night, the ground was a swamp.
Two months we waited for food, weak with hunger, ribs collapsed
in. It seemed like a whole year.” Excerpt from, “They Poured Fire on us From
the Sky” by three Lost Boys: Benson Deng, Alephonsion
Deng, Benjamin Ajak with Judy A. Bernstein.
From Peace with Justice
Advocates…
“A fourteen year old
learned to use an AK-47 rifle when he was 8 years old. Children fight real war,
they grow up knowing nothing but war. Recruited as soldiers when
they should be learning to read and write, they face an unknown
future – if they survive.”
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