6/5/2023 0 Comments The Lost Boy by Ayik Chut Deng![]() ![]() They fed and clothed the children, also organizing school supplies. ![]() ĭue to increased fighting, Deng was eventually responsible for 22 children from her extended family she and her battalion friends took the children to a United Nations refugee camp in Itang, Ethiopia, in order to attend school. She provided medical support to the SPLA and learned how to fight in preparation for attacks. She became a member of "Katiba Banat", the all-female battalion, where her nom de guerre was "Nyanpakou". ![]() The Second Sudanese Civil War had begun shortly before. In 1984, Deng left her studies to join the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA). While the rest of the family left Juba for her mother's village, Deng and her older brother stayed to attend school. He was believed to be poisoned by the man who was assigned to replace him at the hospital. ![]() In Juba, they all lived in a one-room dwelling. Around 1979, the family moved from Khartoum to Juba when her father was reassigned to the hospital there. Her mother Achol Aguin Majok, a homemaker, was illiterate. Her father Chut Deng Achouth had studied medical sciences and worked at a government hospital in Khartoum. She was the second of seven children born to Dinka parents. Aguil Chut Deng was born in 1967 in Malakal, located in what is now the state of Upper Nile, South Sudan. ![]()
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