Documentary Ethiopia: Nuer, history of a Refugee (English)

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[ENG] Nuer, history of a refugee. Pel is 24 years old and like so many other Nuer lives in a Sudanese refugee camp in Ethiopia. His family moved from Sudan to Ethiopia, fleeing the war, and today live on land that has been occupied from another people --the Anuak, with whom they dispute the territory. His dream is to go to Australia to do a degree. His refugee status will possibly enable this dream to come true. Once his studies are over, he would like to return home to be able to help his people acquire the knowledge he has picked up abroad. The Nuer people are said to have originally been a section of the Dinka people that migrated out of the Gezira but south into a barren dry land that they called "Kwer Kwong"", which was in southern Kordofan. Centuries of isolation and influence from Luo peoples caused them to be a distinct ethnic group from the Dinka. The Arrival of Bagarra Arabs and their subsequent slave raids in the late 1700s caused the Nuer to migrate en masse from southern

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