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Then 10 years old, Ariath was considered an elder among the boys who fled, so he was put in charge of 250 others younger than him.

“I had them hold hands as we walked in a long line through tall grass, forests and darkness so they would not get lost,” he wrote in an essay. “It was a nightmare. As we walked, we often heard gunfire and daily boys would die from dehydration, starvation and disease. When we stopped to rest, we often left dead bodies there.”

Shari'a tries to describe in detail all possible human acts, dividing them into permitted (halal) and prohibited (haram). It subdivides them into various degrees of good or evil such as obligatory, recommended, neutral, objectionable or forbidden.

In 2001, intolerable living conditions in the refugee camp gave the United States government reason to resettle some 4,000 of these now young men in America.