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Article: Sudan loses talented generation as `Lost Boys' are resettled in US
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- September 23, 2001
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In the refugee camps in the desert of northern Kenya, everyone
wants to be a "Lost Boy". Named after the magical orphans in J M
Barrie's book Peter Pan, the Lost Boys were flung together by Sudan's
long-running civil war in the early 1990s. They have lived together
in a quasi-independent boys' community in Kakuma ever since.
Tong Kur sat with his friend Ezekiel and took shade from the
blazing heat under a thatch shelter and told the story of their epic
trek. "The Arabs attacked my village when I was a child and we ran to
Ethiopia," he said. "But then we were attacked there too. On the way
back to Sudan crocodiles attacked me. The government planes bombed
us. Then we arrived here."
The ...