Atet Deng: "Many girls who went with us to Pinyidu in 1987 are dead and the rest lives in the life of hardship even now"
Rabecca Atet Deng Source: Supplied
In Nov of 1987, Rebecca Atet Deng Leek was small girl below the teenage lost her mother three months earlier. Atet was being cared for by the elder siblings but she never thought that she will embark on a journey that will change her life forever. 1987 was a year the command was given by the commander in chief of the Sudanese People Liberation Army/Movement for the zonal commanders to move young people to Ethiopia. The young children who were expected to go to Ethiopia were boys but that was not a case in Duk Payuel or Nyarweng. Atet became one of the girls that were identified to go and this was a journey no one told her. She was playing with other children when one of the elders snatched her. She only became aware that something was happening after meeting many girls from her village. They were moved to a center at Poktap and that how the trip to Ethiopia began. Here is the story of Atet on her first SBS Dinka Interview.
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