Sudanese man kills girlfriend in Arizona, USA

March 1, 2008 — On Tuesday, February 27, a man of South Sudan’s origin shot dead his girlfriend in Arizona, United States. The man, now a United States citizen originally came from South Sudan’s Jonglei State. He has been in the United States since 2001 and holds a US citizenship.

This is not the first time a Sudanese man has killed his girlfriend in the States but for the Lost Boys, it is. Three years ago, a middle age Sudanese man killed his wife in Washington over allegations of adultery.

In 2004 in the Midwest, another man stabbed his wife and committed suicide, according to sources.

The deceased is a mother of four, ages 3-18.

The police arrested the man on the night of Wednesday, February 27 and appeared in court a few days later. His fate will be determined at a later date.

The killer and the victim's names have not yet been released to public.

The Lost Boys are a group of young men from South Sudan who left their homes in the late 1980s and took refuge in western Ethiopia. In 2000, the United States began to settle them in large numbers. There are close to 4,000 LostBoys in the USA. Others have settled to Canada and Australia.

Sudan has been at war with itself since 1955. In 2005, the Sudanese People Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A) signed a peace deal with the National Islamic From/National Congress Party in Nairobi Kenya.

The peace gives South Sudan autonomy and a right for self-determination in a UN monitored referendum scheduled for 2011.

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Lost Boys of Sudan ..

Lost Boys of Sudan
This is the name given to the thousands of southern Sudanese boys
who were brought to the United States over the past few years

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About The Film
Lost Boys of Sudan is an Emmy-nominated feature-length documentary that follows two Sudanese refugees on an extraordinary journey from Africa to America. Orphaned as young boys in one of Africa's cruelest civil wars, Peter Dut and Santino Chuor survived lion attacks and militia gunfire to reach a refugee camp in Kenya along with thousands of other children. From there, remarkably, they were chosen to come to America. Safe at last from physical danger and hunger, a world away from home, they find themselves confronted with the abundance and alienation of contemporary American suburbia.

Lost Boys of Sudan directed by Megan Mylan and Jon Shenk, won an Independent Spirit Award and screened theatrically in 70 cities across the U.S. to strong audience and critical praise. The film was broadcast nationally on the PBS series POV in the fall of 2004 and earned two national Emmy nominations.

An extensive national outreach campaign has brought Lost Boys of Sudan to thousands of community settings to build awareness and support for refugees and the crisis in Darfur, Sudan.
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Riz Khan - Lost Boys of Sudan - 22 May 07
Guest presenter Anand Naidoo looks into the world of the "Lost Boys" of Sudan - those thousands of southern Sudanese boys brought to the US to escape their country's brutal wars. Anand speaks to the director and also one of the stars of a new documentary on the boys, called Dinka Diaries

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