Free Republic

A mediation committee in southern Sudan has secured the freedom of 85 black Sudanese boys who had been held as slaves, Christian Solidarity International reports. The Arab-Dinka Peace Committee facilitated the rescue, which was documented last week by an international team of researchers sponsored by CSI. The freed slave boys were among the tens of thousands of black women and children who had been enslaved by Sudanese government-sponsored militias during two decades of civil war. All of the boys reported that they were forced to work without pay and were frequently beaten and subjected to racial insults. According to CSI,...

They were just boys when they fled their villages in Sudan in the late 1980s and trekked hundreds of miles on foot through Africa's bush to Ethiopia, then back to Sudan and finally to safety in Kenya. They escaped death from hunger and thirst, crocodiles and lions, disease and enemy soldiers. Now The Lost Boys of Sudan, as they have come to be called, are young men living in America. Thirty-eight of them, now ages 18 to 25, have been relocated to Memphis, where they have discovered that life in America poses a new set of challenges. Coming from the ...

Did anyone else see Datleine tonight? I usually don't bother with it, but tonight it caught my eye. It's about "The Lost Boys", young Christian men from Sudan who are brought to the U.S. by various churches. They followed 2 groups- one in Rochester, NY the other in Seattle. Watching these young men was fascinating. All the things they are trying to learn, such as indoor plumbing, grocery stores, etc. In one shot they were in an airport in Europe. They were fascinated by the running water and the automatic faucets. In Rochester they were taken to Wegman's to go ...

As young boys under the age of 10, they trekked almost 1,000 miles from Sudan to Ethiopia, back to Sudan and into a refugee camp in Kenya. They saw other boys fall victim to lions and crocodiles, drown in rivers, die from starvation and disease and killed by soldiers. Three of the "lost boys of Sudan" moved to Hendersonville from Atlanta a few weeks ago with their sponsor, Tricia Beall, owner of Studio B. Laat "Abraham" Deng, Martin Deng and Victor Deng are three of the about 17,000 boys who set out in 1989 on a four-year trek to escape...