Gabriel Deng, Koor Garang and Garang Mayuol, Southern Sudanese "Lost Boys" in the U.S., were forced to flee Sudan as children when their villages were attacked in 1987, finding safety for a time in a refugee camp in Ethiopia until needing to flee once more, this time to Kakuma camp in Kenya. Since leaving Sudan, they have scarcely been able to obtain news about their villages or families.
The Comprehensive Peace Agreement and its aftermath
Published January 8, 2010
Jen Marlowe, for the Pulitzer Center
Tomorrow is the five-year anniversary of the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, ending the longest-running civil war in Africa, a conflict that killed two million people and displaced four million other. Most of the commentary we hear about the peace agreement comes from Western analysts, people who have been studying and/or working in the Sudan for years. I believe it is also vital to hear the voices of those for whom peace and war in Sudan has the greatest impact—Southern Sudanese themselves.
In the segment below, filmed between 2007-2009, Southern Sudanese share their perspectives on the Comprehensive Peace Agreement and its aftermath. What progress has been made and what have the flashpoints been? Is Sudan on a tenuous path towards peace, and stability, or has the peace agreement fragmented to the point where a return to civil war is inevitable?
Find out more about Jen Marlowe's documentary, Rebuilding Hope
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A documentary by Chicago students working with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and Free Spirit Media.
Jen Marlowe will discuss her films Darfur Diaries and Rebuilding Hope at Vanderbilt University's Holocaust Lecture series on October 2.
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Jen Marlowe traveled to Darfur with two colleagues to make the documentary Darfur Diaries: Message from Home. Her second feature length film is the award-winning Rebuilding Hope: Sudan's Lost Boys...
