They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky
Three of the 20,000 refugee boys who fled the Sudanese civil war 14 years ago tell the stories, in alternating chapters, of their 1,000-mile exodus from a rural village in the southern Sudan and exile in a Kenyan refugee camp.
American mentor Judy Bernstein helped the now 20-year-old men who live in San Diego—two brothers and their cousin(Benson Deng, Alephonsion Deng, Benjamin Ajak)—record their memories. Brutal tales of privation, horror, disease, and despair emerge in serious, quiet tones as homage to the 2 million dead and 5 million displaced during this horrific religious and ethnic conflict of the late 1980s.
American mentor Judy Bernstein helped the now 20-year-old men who live in San Diego—two brothers and their cousin(Benson Deng, Alephonsion Deng, Benjamin Ajak)—record their memories. Brutal tales of privation, horror, disease, and despair emerge in serious, quiet tones as homage to the 2 million dead and 5 million displaced during this horrific religious and ethnic conflict of the late 1980s.
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