AUTHOR, LILY ASHBY
Vanished from the Guns of Sudan
The shooting began. Sprinting in all different directions people fled. Already 90,000 displaced by the upsetting fights in South Sudan, Ajing Biink, age 12, and his two younger brothers ran. Abiik’s father passed in the war as a soldier and there mother who had remained along-side of them for as long as she possibly could went missing. The boys not only don’t know where their mother is, but they do not know if she’s still alive. In this crucial situation these three boys are vulnerable to malnutrition, sickness, and left alone as orphans.
By the time they reached Bor in hope for less of a fight Abiik was surrounded by frantic running and gun shots being fired in all directions. "Abiik and his brothers were relatively lucky because they fled Bor with an aunt who now looks after them." (Gridneff, 2014)
If you manage take a deeper look into the issues regarding children they show a broad spectrum of exploitation. The innocent, the weak, and the vulnerable are placed in positions of grown men. Is there no morality? Is there no reverence for their future? With mass killings and so many fled citizens what are they expecting as an outcome. Yet, there is no appearance of investment into these young beings lives, their country, or their people. The murky waters of Sudan provide a clear understanding to the privileged life of someone from Marin. To take advantage of such an entitled thoughtful lifestyle is truly ungrateful. Its a disturbing process to think that this is the world that our young people are entering and faced with the challenge of correcting the wrong doings of something in which they were not the cause of. There is no simple solution to this level of corruption. Now, Sudan must seek to find a thread of gray and rise above this tragic time. "The whole point here is that it can be avoided, it should be avoided, it must be avoided." (Pflanz, 2014)