Senator Don Meredith is deeply disturbed by recent United Nations reports of the fast deteriorating situation on the ground in South Sudan where ethnically-based atrocities bear striking similarity to that which precipitated the Rwanda genocide that left one million dead 20 years ago. Last week, approximately 60 out of 5,000 women, children, and men and
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South Sudan
Building a School in Duk Padiet, South Sudan
on October 7th, 2009
David Schroeder The Afro International As a seven-year-old boy Jacob Deng fled his village in southern Sudan, Duk Padiet, in the province of Jonglei, narrowly escaping the death and destruction brought by militias from the north. The trek was a harrowing journey first to Ethiopia, and then back through Sudan to a massive refugee camp
