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Sudan: A Lost Boy Returns Home by Sven Torfinn (42 images)

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Joseph Gatyoung Khan made a vow, uttered in the back seat of a Land Cruiser on a very bumpy road, as he headed home for the first time in 22 years: I will not cry.

He had not seen his parents for two decades. He had not set foot in his village since he marched off in 1988, an eight-year-old boy on a barefoot odyssey through one of Africa's worst civil wars.

His story would be repeated thousandsfold, and a generation of southern Sudanese boys, scattered by the...
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