Francis Bok Biography

Francis Bok is a 26 year-old native of Southern Sudan. At the age of seven he was captured and enslaved during an Arab militia raid on the village of Nymlal (outside Aweil) on May 15 1986. Bok saw adults and children brutalized and killed all around him. He was strapped to a donkey and taken north to Kirio. For ten years he lived as the family slave to Giema Abdullah forced to sleep with cattle endure daily beatings and eat terrible food. Always called abeed (black slave) Bok was given an Arabic name - Dut Giema Abdullah - and forced to perform Islamic prayers.
In December of 1996 Bok escaped to the nearby town of Matari where he was enslaved by local policemen for two months. But an Arab truck driver helped Bok escape and eventually to reach Khartoum the capital. In Khartoum Bok was arrested by the security forces and jailed for seven months. After being released Bok escaped to Cairo. In 1999 the United Nations resettled him in North Dakota. Bok is now an Associate at the American Anti-Slavery Group in Boston.
On May 23 2000 Bok spoke out for the first time at a Capitol Hill ceremony with Senators and Congressmen sharing his message: We cannot rest until my people are free. On September 18 2000 Bok spoke alongside Coretta Scott King widow of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the Boston Freedom Award ceremony.

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