Sudan Cries Rape

Former Captives Recount the Crime of Boy Rape in Sudan

Abstract

Background: As he began speaking. Majok lowered his small cocoa-colored eyes and stared intensely at the grow1d. It was the summer of 2002 and I had just flown thousands of miles deep into the war zone of Sudan, the largest country in Africa, to interview former slaves. Majok. then 12, tightly hugged his long, bony leg as we sat on the parched termite-infested earth. His ragged black sho11S and ripped oversized T-shirt hung loosely on his spindly, dust-covered body. A continuous flow of tears poured down his precious adolescent face, as he spoke of the way he was repeatedly raped and sodomized by gangs of government soldiers.