![]() He was rescued by Emma McCune, a British Aid worker, who helped him travel to Kenya. He had lived through a complete horror: “marching through miles of desert toward Ethiopia, past the bones of adults and children who had fallen on the trek witnessing the deaths of friends and family members killing soldiers and civilians with a gun he could barely lift starving to the point of near-cannibalism, and coming to the edge of suicide.” Extraordinarily, Jal survived this unbearable experience and this became a turning point in his life. Jal was orphaned and left to fend for himself. He would end up being one of over 10,000 child soldiers who fought for over a decade in the Sudan civil war. ![]() Not long after this, Jal was conscripted to join the Christian Sudanese Liberation Army. Their goal was to fight for the Freedom of Sudan. At the age of seven, his mother was killed and his father became a top commander within the Christian Sudanese Liberation Army. ![]() ![]() As a young child, he lived in a small village in the Bahr el Ghazal region of Sudan (now South Sudan). Emmanuel Jal is a political activist, musician, actor and former child soldier from South Sudan. ![]()
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