![]() ![]() Jal met a British aid worker, Emma McCune, who smuggled him into Nairobi, Kenya, and put him in school. The group of escapees thought it would take them three weeks to get to Waat, a town in South Sudan, but the journey took them three months, Campbell-Golding says. And the way some died of starvation, dehydration and a lot of things that attacked us on the way that we weren't prepared for." "We were, like, around - between to 400, I think, and only 16 people survived. ![]() "It was really, really dangerous," he said. And so we decide, look, I rather go and die where my family members are," Jal told NPR. Jal does not know for sure if he killed anyone, because often firing the gun was indiscriminate and the child soldiers "weren't sure who their victims were," says Campbell-Golding.Īs the war raged on, "the movement that we're struggling in became tribal and so, you know, you see soldiers who are turning on each other. But as he got older, he fought on the front lines in three major battles in South Sudan. He carried an assault rifle, because "8 years old can fire an AK-47," he told NPR's Scott Simon in 2015.įor the first two years, he was trained and did chores. ![]()
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