The Wire

Its now almost one year since South Sudan became independent from its northern neighbor, but the decades of conflict leading up to independence saw rebel soldiers and government forces both commit atrocities, and child soldiers were common in the region. Many people fled as refugees, and some of them have now settled in Australia. One refugee who settled in Western Sydney has now published a novel that is written from the perspective of a child soldier. When Majok Tulba was nine, rebel soldiers came to his village and forced boys taller than an AK47 to join the rebel army. Majok was too short, and he fled the country soon after, but his novel explores the life that he was almost forced to lead.