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“I remember an attack we hear coming before they appeared. We hid in the forest and found the empty village bagara. They were looking for us and killed the entire family of a neighbor of ours except a baby. When we went to collect bodies, the baby tries to suck the breast of his mother but the mother was dead. ” So begins the story of Kuan Lual, a young man who was a child soldier, later lived in Khartoum and Juba is now at the Committee on Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) of the new Republic of South Sudan on Saturday declared its independence. Kuan was born in 1985 in a village near the border between North and South, where both parties were in a war that had begun two years earlier. When I was very small villages in your area began to be attacked by bagara, nomadic Arab tribes from the north and armed by Khartoum. These tribes were stealing their cattle and burned their huts. “And abducted children to look after his cows and girls to cook or to marry them. But also to sell as slaves in the North,” he recalls. “Independence is our total freedom for the Arabs, now we can finally govern ourselves,” says Kuan. “Now my goal is to save and return to my village to work as a small farmer. That’s what I want.”