![]() ![]() Some other adult said he heard guns shooting. And while I was sitting there, I heard adults saying that they saw smoke and pointing toward the village that we came from. We went to the market, and I sat underneath the big tree where a lot of people come from all different villages, selling and buying. What happened that day you were taken, in 1986? ![]() He's now telling his story in the new book, Escape from Slavery (St. Francis was 7 years old, and he spent the next 10 years in slavery, where he worked on a farm. In 1986, Muslim invaders attacked the village where Francis's mother had sent him on an errand. An estimated two million people have been killed in the conflict. A 20-year civil war in Sudan has pitted the Muslim majority north against the Christian majority south. ![]()
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