They still hope to go back to the life they led before they were displaced. In that area, we lost cows. We lost fish. For people here, culturally we have lost our lives. There is no way to carry on our culture.
Adults talk to children about the way life used to be at home.
But it's not the same, Goch said. They have no musical instruments, and food is just enough to survive. When boys reach manhood at age 18 to 20, for example, they celebrate by killing cows, drinking the blood and eating the meat. They can't do that because the cows were killed or stolen by government troops. It is all we can hope for the war to stop and to go back to my home in Sudan.