In the far-flung town of Nzara, here in the Western Equatoria region of Southern Sudan, young boys between 16 and 20 deploy in thick forests at night.
They are called by the local community the Arrow Boys because they carry arrows and bows to fight the Lords' Resistance Army, a militia that comes from across the border in Democratic Republic of Congo or Central African Republic and, according to people, kill, rape and abduct innocent people.
It is the latest war going on in this region.
The Arrow Boys make their own weapons out of metal pipes. Carved wooden bullets are purchased on the market for two dollars each.
They are full of metal shrapnel.
We saw them disappear into the thick forest at night.
We city dwellers were scared of snakes, bugs and all the kinds of animals that we had always read about but never seen.
The arrow boys giggled.
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