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Article: Lost Boys film warm, inspiring
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- February 23, 2007
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GOD GREW TIRED OF US -- *** -- Documentary feature about African
child refugees; rated PG (adult themes).
The documentary "God Grew Tired of Us" focuses on three now-
grown men who were among the 25,000 "Lost Boys" of southern Sudan --
African child refugees who fled their villages during a two-decade
civil war with the Arab-dominated North.
Panther Bior, John Bul Dau and Daniel Abol Pach survived long
treks through the desert, often going for days without food, and
having to drink urine when no water could be found. They wound up
spending more than a decade in refugee camps in Ethiopia and Kenya,
until they were finally selected, along with 3,800 other Lost Boys,
to go to America and start ...