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Kushaal M

espac.org - SUDAN AND THE SPLA - 0 views

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    Very resourceful site about the SPLA, nearly  complete history about the movement and its aims. A vast amount of information so it might be tough to find what you are actually looking for.
Kushaal M

Anti-Slavery - Slavery in Sudan - 0 views

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    This article has good information and statistics about what happens to the people of the Dinka Tribe and about how they were taken to become slaves due to the raids in South Sudan.
Dries C

New dangers threaten Kenya's Kakuma refugee camp - 0 views

  • It was opened in 1992 to house the 16,000 “lost” girls and boys fleeing the war from Sudan.
  • home to around 100,000 people
  • not look like a refugee camp in the movies, with rows of canvas tents ringed by barbed wire
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  • Most of the refugees live in handmade huts, built of sticks, mud, metal scrap, and materials salvaged from aid packaging.
  • Life in the camp is hard, and it is about to get harder.
  • One third of the camp’s population lacks adequate shelter
  • The refugees are not allowed to leave the camp grounds, which comprise 12 square kilometers.
  • The second threat is terrorism.
  • There are also more than 57,000 children in the camp, about 5,000 of whom have no parents.
  • As he spoke, a fight broke out between two young men in the street behind him. One appeared to be badly drunk and was knocked down. The drunk brushed himself off and began lurching around with a jagged piece of wood in his hand.
  • Apparently it’s a question of budgets
  • Sudan but also Ethiopia, Congo, Somalia, Rwanda, Burundi and a handful of other nations.
Gurupranav G

Sudanese Refugees In Omaha Wrestle With Rise Of Street Gangs - 0 views

  • Late last month, his son, James Mun, 19, was gunned down in an empty lot on Omaha's gritty north side, as he drank beer with a group of friends early one Saturday morning. Police have made no arrests in the case.
  • Mun's murder is the grim consequence of a rising tide of youth and gang violence afflicting Sudanese refugees in the U.S., who have settled mainly in Nebraska, Iowa and other Midwest states. From weekend brawls to shootings and robberies, young Sudanese are victims and victimizers, ending up in hospital beds, behind bars -- or dead.
  • The agency described African Pride, which began in Omaha but has spread to Lincoln and other Midwest cities with Sudanese refugee populations, as the "most aggressive and dangerous" of the gangs.
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  • Sudanese community leaders in Nebraska do not deny the gangs' existence, but describe their members as misguided youths, not hardened criminals.
  • "I will agree that there are Sudanese gangs in Omaha," said Malakal Goak, a Sudanese refugee and director of Caring People Sudan, an Omaha-based non-profit group that provides health and educational services to the refugee community. "But even though there are gangs, we still have a very strong culture that can redirect them to come back to a normal life of the community."
  • The emergence of the gangs follows a familiar pattern. Driven by poverty, social dislocation and other factors, street gangs have arisen from virtually every immigrant and refugee population to arrive in the U.S. for well over a century
  • Among the young people, there are some that have gone to college and even graduated," Yiel said. "There are a few that are doing very well."
  • But many more youth, he said, were turning to gangs and delinquency.
  • "The youngsters, a big number of them are not doing as good as we expected them to do in the society. They are getting involved in these negative experiences," he said. "These are the ones who could be the future."
  • The lack of parental engagement led many young Sudanese people to drop out and drift into trouble, she said. For those that did end up in gangs, some parents either could not, or would not, understand or acknowledge their childrenâ€'s involvement
  • The levels of poverty and violence in the primarily African-American neighborhoods in Omaha where many Sudanese settled are among the highest in the country
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    This is a really good article about the many struggles that refugees face in America and what happens to some of them because of their pride and their struggle.
Gurupranav G

Michael - USA for UNHCR - 0 views

  • It is quiet in the small, sparsely furnished walk-up apartment off Main Street in Manchester, NH. Michael sits on a low stool, leaning forward slightly, his hands clasped tightly together. Asked to describe his long journey to the United States, he speaks quietly, almost in a whisper at times, and with great care.
  • The oldest son of a vendor in the village’s open air market, Michael and his family enjoyed a quiet life until civil war broke out anew in 1983. In 1989, roaming pro-Government Islamic militias called Marahallin raided Michael’s town in search of rebels and rebel sympathizers. In a series of home raids, militias killed an uncle and two of Michael’s aunts. Later, they returned and murdered his father in the town’s market.
  • Then the Marahallin came for Michael and the rest of his family. Arriving at his house late at night, the militias took Michael, his mother, and brother away at gunpoint. They were beaten and crammed into buses which drove them to the north. Days later, they militia men forced them from the buses at a roadside where a group of local men waited. It was a slave market and Michael and his mother and brother were separated and sold as slaves to the highest bidder.
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  • An Arab Muslim from the north ‘bought’ Michael and he was taken to the man’s home in another northern town. He tended goats, cleaned the man’s house, watched his children, and was regularly beaten.
  • Michael slept outside in the stalls with the animals, and wondered where his mother and brother might be. For food, the man gave him rancid, rotting food, which made him sick for months at a time.
  • He dreamed of escape, but knew that if he were to try to leave on his own, the man would almost certainly track him down and kill him on the road.
  • At 1:00am one morning, the Sudanese government’s notorious Security Forces smashed in the door of Michael’s home and arrested everyone they could find in the house. The security forces accused Michael and the two university students in the house of being rebel sympathizers
  • Michael and his housemates were dragged to a prison in central Khartoum and beaten and tortured for days. None of the group admitted to any contact or knowledge of the rebels they were accused of supporting. They were strapped down and shocked with bare electric wires. They were tied to iron bar suspended from the ceiling and spun by an electric motor until they lost consciousness.
  • Thanks to the help and selfless bravery of Michael’s boss and his associates, Michael reached a port city in eastern Sudan and boarded a ship bound north for ports in Egypt. After some days, the documents and money Michael was given helped him reach Cairo where he found the Egyptian office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refuge
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    This is a UN website which gives details about the refugee life of Michael, a south-Sudanese Dinka who was forced out of his country and migrated to the U.S. His village was taken over by the Murahaleen. Quite detailed, pretty good.
Gurupranav G

David from Sudan - 0 views

  • David was born in Wau, one of the largest cities in South Sudan and the capital of Western Bahr al Ghazal state. He was only three years old when he and his father fled the brutal killings of the Second Sudanese Civil War (1983-2005), leaving his pregnant mother, who could not walk with them, behind. Having his childhood disrupted at such a young age, David has few memories of what it was like living together as a family. He remembers happily waiting for his father to come home from work, because he always brought him lollies. H
  • The long journey to Australia started when David was three and ended when he was twenty-two. After they fled from Wau, David and his father walked for two months to a refugee camp in Ethiopia. David remembers the harsh journey with lack of food and water and bodies scattered alongside the road; his father told him they were “sleeping”. They spent four years in a refugee camp in Ethiopia until they were “kicked out” because of the Ethiopian Civil War. No option remained, but to walk back to Sudan. However, the situation there was still volatile and after a year of languishing in open armed conflict, David and his friends headed for Kenya. By the time David reached Kakuma refugee camp, it was 1992, he was about ten years old and without any family.
  • He spent 13 years in the Kenyan refugee camp with other South Sudanese boys orphaned or separated from their families by the war – this group later became known as the Lost Boys of Sudan. David’s friends were all he had and they became very close during these insecure years. In 2001, the US Government resettled many of the “Lost Boys”, but David missed out.
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  • His day finally came when a cousin who was already living in Australia offered to sponsor him. David arrived in August 2004; he was 22 years old.
  • The first challenge David encountered was to understand how to connect with people, services and just “live” in Australia. Everything was completely new and each task, even a simple one like cooking or filling the bathtub, had to learnt from scratch.
  • nother challenge was posed by the constant flashbacks of his previous life and how to learn to live with what had been. David had experienced much trauma in his young life. How was he to deal with it and what was this new life he was to lead? These difficult questions preoccupied much of his thoughts in the beginning.
  • The “Lost Boys” became David’s family and now they are scattered all over the world in Canada, USA, New Zealand and Australia. He misses them and the strong connection they had. He also somewhat misses the unstructured nature of life in the refugee camp, where no one knew what would happen next or where the next meal was coming from. The predictability of life in Australia is not something David is used to.
Gurupranav G

Musical Explorer, Sudanese Survivor, Environmental Hero Among 2007 Class of National Ge... - 0 views

  • John Bul Dau: Dau, 32, is a Sudanese native who fled his country as a 13-year-old in 1987 to escape civil war. For the next five years he wandered 1,000 miles, barefoot, to Ethiopia, back to Sudan, then to Kenya, dodging ambushes, massacres and wild animal attacks. He lived in a Kenyan refugee camp for nine years before being selected for immigration to the United States in 2001.
  • While working 60 hours a week as a security guard, he completed an associate degree at Onondaga Community College and is currently studying for a bachelor’s degree at Syracuse University
  • au was recently named director of Sudan projects for Direct Change, an organization formed to fund health care and education for vulnerable children in Africa.
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    This article is about emerging national geographic explorers; most of the ones mentioned in this article are actually irrelevant to the topic. However, there is a short biography about the endless struggles that John Bul Dau, a Sudanese refugee who went through lmost exactly the same expreriences that Valentino did. Good info.
Kushaal M

SPLA-N Graduates New Soldiers - YouTube - 0 views

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    This is a good video if you want a fresh point of view on the rebels and their cause, although very biased you ca average out the 2 opinions.
Kushaal M

Nuer Massacre - Sudan, May 1991 - YouTube - 0 views

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    Information in the video can be a bit confusing at times but it does provide a few good stories related to the nuer massacre and how people have been chased out of their homes.
Dries C

Life in Kakuma Refugee Camp- Part 1 of 3 - YouTube - 0 views

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    Donations by NGOs is a question of survival, rather than development. Basic education for small children. Rarely access to higher education. From the 630 students, there are only 76 girls. Fear to return to home country, as most buildings and infrastructure was destructed by the war. Shows nice pictures of the area around the camp, some interviews with refugees (hard to understand).
Kushaal M

What is the murahaleen - 0 views

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    Gives a very brief description of who the murahaleen were and the different roles they played in the war and by themselves. Not the greatest website but it was useful for me.
Issy Mackey

Good reason to help Sudanese - 0 views

  • Nuba Mountains
  • border between Sudan
  • new country of South Sudan
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  • became independent on July 9, 2011.
  • South Sudan's independence
  • achieved
  • two civil wars
  • each lasted about 20 year
  • killed over two million people
  • ended in 2005
  • signing of a Comprehensive Peace Agreement
  • agreement was not comprehensive enough
  • excluded three border areas
  • remain in dispute: Abyei, Blue Nile and South Kordofan
  • civil wars
  • southern Sudan
  • massive numbers of refugees
  • more than 25,000 eventually coming to Australia
  • by far the largest group of black Africans in Australia
  • Most South Sudanese
  • came to Australia
  • 2001 and 2007
  • formed the majority of our refugee intake
  • Some were ''Lost Boys''
  • grew up wandering through southern Sudan
  • iving in refugee camps
  • finally going to the US
  • Canada and Australia
  • other big Africa story of the past two weeks, Invisible Children's Kony 2012 video, involves South Sudan's southern border
Issy Mackey

Who Rescued You? The Story of Emmanuel Jal and Emma McCune | Trauma & Children - 0 views

  • At the age of seven I, along with thousands of other children was taken from Sudan to Ethiopia, to learn to read and write.
  • During my time there, I learned 8 languages, but as time passed we learned that we had in fact been bought there to be trained as child soldiers
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    A story of a child soldier from Sudan, who is now a rapper.
Kushaal M

Sudan, Oil, and Human Rights: THE CHEVRON PERIOD: 1974-92 - 0 views

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    Another website that looks at how oil instigated the war a bit but this goes more in depth to the beginnings and the process the central government went through to secure their oil fields.
Farshed F

Is Identity the Root Cause of Sudan's Civil Wars? - 0 views

  • The superior nature of the Northern identity is not only embedded by the conduct of Islamic religion and Arab race, but also history played a major role in widening this gap between the North and the South.
  • According to this framework, the key to stability in Sudan lies through the centre, which is the North, even though the CPA is promising for Sudan’s national democratic transformation, it seems to appear as a recipe for future instability in Sudan.
  • he crucial point to get across is not to talk of the probability or the possibility of war, but to make all the Sudanese realise that whatever the outcome of the referendum, good working relations between North and South will be essential if the country is not to slip back into war and chaos.”
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    I think this will help a lot of us for the end part of the article as it mentions one of the main points of what needs to happen to find some sort of closure and peace there. I think most of us will want to say something about the war needing to end or how the war is still going.
Dries C

Kenya: Gary Smith reflection from Kakuma - 1 views

  • seated in the small one room dir- floor, mud-wall tukul. One bed and a few mats are on the floor.
  • a wall of heat. It is an unwanted companion that never leaves you.
  • At one time, before the UN came here (because of the civil war in Sudan), Kakuma was nothing but a little trading center for local nomadic tribes.
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  • It is a huge sprawling camp, jammed packed, several miles north to south, 80,000 plus refugees, with the majority being Somali and Sudanese, and large numbers from Uganda, Eritrea, Ethiopia, the Congo, Rwanda and Burundi and seven other African nations.
  • ma was originally setup by the UNHCR in 1992 for Sudanese refugees who fled their civil war. There is a camp hospital
  • Walking down the central "street" of the camp: Turquanas running their goat herds through, NGO pickups creeping along, dust everywhere, women in the traditional bright attire of their country, kids gawking at white me
Kushaal M

Chevron and Nimeiri - 0 views

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    There is no information about lost boys here so this will not be too helpful to most people. For anyone doing war history, this website will be great for understanding the beginnings and possibly how oil played a major factor in igniting the second civil war.
Maud R

Sudan: The Passion of the Present: Equipping "Lost Boys" for life - 2 views

  • Most of the Lost Boys have post-traumatic stress disorder, said David Berceli, an Arizona State University doctoral candidate researching PTSD. He has worked with some of the estimated 500 Sudanese refugees who settled here as well as some Lost Boys on the East Coast.
  • "They've been in the U.S. five years. Naturally, it's trying to surface; they're having difficulty," Berceli said, adding that some are drinking and engaging in unhealthy activities.
  • When they were brought here, much was done to help the "poor boys" who had suffered so much, he said. "That's gone, that's faded . . . society has moved on."
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  • Jany Deng, 26, is one of the success stories.
  • As recently as last week, one of the Lost Boys showed up drunk at a fund-raiser. "It's heartbreaking to see that happen," she said. "It's a way to deaden the pain. They're trying to numb themselves to those old painful hurts - the nightmares."
  • The latest tragedy happened in February when Lost Boy, Joseph Abil, who had been suffering from depression took off on foot and wandered along Interstate 17 near Anthem during rush hour.
  • the young refugees seemed to have achieved an unbelievable dream: after a treacherous journey across Africa and a childhood spent in a refugee camp, they got a chance to start anew in America.
  • Communities embraced them, and there were widely publicized success stories
  • Most of the Lost Boys have post-traumatic stress disorder,
  • AZ Lost Boys Center
  • He works at the AZ Lost Boys Center as an outreach coordinator, teaching other Lost Boys about what it takes to thrive in Arizona.
  • When they arrived, it was like coming from "the Stone Age to modern civilization," he said.
  • nightmares keep the Lost Boys from sleeping any more than three or four hours a night.
  • One of the Lost Boys recalled a nightmare, Shapiro said, of how he woke up, sure that he was in Sudan, ready to be executed.
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    This is a good article about the Lost Boys now in America. It tells a success story, and a tragedy story of a Lost Boy killed. 
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    An article (from 2005) about the ups and downs of leaving Kenya and Sudan. This article is all about the boys who ame to Arizona, America. There are interviews with some of the refugees.
Sana M

Film Tracks 'Lost Boys' Lives in America : NPR - 0 views

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    Audio about the transition of the Sudanese boys from Sudan to America.
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