30/07/2025
Today, it is Martyrs Day. Thanks, my parents, the late; Riak Malith Thokuor and Chuoch Gol Lam, who take care of me when I was young, and i appreciate them because they take me to school in Ruathnyibol Primary School, Maper Primary in Turaley Payam- Warap and Biehnyang Boarding School during Gen. Peter Gatdet Yak in 2001. In 2001, i was taken as child soldier, but I wasn't trained with Central Nation the armed forces in western Upper Nile because i was young at that time aged fourteen years and my mom came to visit me in Ruathnyibol, her visited was fully fantastic with traditional foods; walwal, asida, kob and gop (grass food) full with butter and we enjoyed that's why, I was released with some officers' recommendations. And i was released to my mom because my father pass away in the year 1998 in Cuom village and at that time if you're young, some officers use it as an opportunity to demand for the cows. I returned to schooling in the year 2001. In 2002, as a former child soldier, i joined Biehnyang government boarding school and it was called like that because if you're studying in that school, you haven't be recruited as a soldier which was very important done by General Gatdet Yak. General Peter Gatdet gave all learners a chance to go to Kakuma Kenya for studies, we were about 400 pupils in total, including Thomas Garang Mut Tutroah, the spiritual leader in Mayom County now. All of us went to Waah where the aeroplane lands from and some of us get chance to Kakuma for their legacy included Garang Mut Tutroah and others who i didn't mentioned their names and their number in total. I and others went back home to study under trees 🌳 🌳 . In 2003, I was recruited again by the SPLA armed forces in June by Gen John Kuong Nyakolang who released me to my mom when I met him in Kueryiek Payam and he said that Mayiel Riak Malith now is mature, he'll be able to care the gun 🔫 and General John Kuong Dobuol recruited me again. We were military police and it was my first time to
