‘Mother of Sudan’: How a Qld refugee’s campaign for change rescued hundreds
Aguil Chut Deng’s life was one of bullets and beatings as she became a beacon of hope.
As missiles rained down on him while he rushed to bunkers in Western Ukraine earlier this year, he thought of his sister, some 13,000 kilometres away in Toowoomba.She had gone missing in April. It would later be discovered that the mother-of-four had taken her life.“I wish I did die in that time I was bombed in Ukraine, instead of her,” says Ayik, his eyes dark with the unspeakable horrors of multiple wars.
Deng was constantly working with people in Toowoomba and Brisbane, and before the coronavirus pandemic, had frequently flown to Sudan to help the displaced.Dut says his mother was in every community meeting, every government meeting, every meeting where she thought change was needed. As the beginnings of the 1984 civil war crept into every corner of their lives, Deng watched as millions of people were killed and displaced. She thought of her family, and her people. She thought of what the future held.
Ayik recalls seeing his sister withdrawn and uncommunicative in Toowoomba; at other times, she was upbeat. The family says, in line with the African way, she kept much to herself, including when she was in prison.
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