That's amazing, good story Rip. Gotta admire a guy like that and have respect for what he had to endure in order to survive.
My sister in law, her mother and sisters escaped from Sudan to the US in the mid eighties during the civil war. Just recently they got word that their brother had been killed back then.
By some strange coincidence, I wonder if he knew anyone from the : Nazmudin family?
Some real nasty things happened to a lot of good people over there.