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Conflict in Sudan: John Bakoyego, a teenager who escaped abduction
![]() John Bakoyego, 14 years They were kicking him down, he was crying, and when I was running I could still hear his cries. He was 12 years old. I was afraid I would also be arrested. I ran into the bush, the LRA still following me, but I was running faster. I ran past a place where we had hidden some items in the bush in case of an LRA attack – a jerrycan, plates and saucepans - and they started to take those items and forgot about me. After leaving them, I went through another deep bush and crossed a stream, and I met two ladies and told them, but they didn’t believe me. But then they realised that the LRA were following, so we all started to run, then we met more people and the LRA were afraid to follow us more. The people we had met escorted us to my grandfather. I really miss my uncle, I still think about him
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