My Lost Childhood

My Lost Childhood Is A Memoir Describing Immeasurable Suffering The Author Went Through In His Early Childhood. In The Late 1980S The Islamic Government Began To Systematically Torture And Kill Southern Sudanese Families Burn Their Villages And Enslave Young Boys And Girls. As A Result An Approximately As Numbers Are Largely Unknown And Only An Estimate 27000 Plus Boys From Southern Tribes Were Forced To Flee From Their Homes. Traveling Naked And Barefoot They Sought Refuge In Neighboring Fugnido Ethiopia Where A Few Years Later They Were Forced To Flee Yet Another Civil War. Returning To Sudan The Islamic Government Forced Them To Travel For Another Five Months Ultimately Arriving In Kakuma Kenya After Four Years Of Unthinkable Hardship And Walking Over Thousands Of Miles Naked Barefoot And Ailing From Starvation Dehydration And Diseases. Many Boys Perished Along The Way And Their Numbers Shrank Into Few Thousands.. Abraham Deng Ater Separated From His Family In 1987 Is One Of Approximately 3800 Boys Now Known As The Lost Boys Of Sudan. He Left Kakuma Refugee Camp In Kenya After Several Years Of Massive Suffering And Was Granted Refuge In The U.S. In 2001. Many Lost Boys Including Abraham Have Since Become U.S. Citizens And Have Continued To Pursue Their Education. Thousands More Have Also Been Granted Refuge Elsewhere And Are Scattered Around The Globe.