REFUGEE NATIONS; The United Nations estimates that 6.2 million people are living in "protracted refugee situations." Some may never go home.(WORLD)

From: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) | Date: December 21, 2006| Author: Bengali, Shashank | Copyright information

Byline: Shashank Bengali

McClatchy Foreign Correspondent

His mother was pregnant when government troops stormed the village in southern Sudan and opened fire. She was shot in the back of her left shoulder as she tried to flee, and the trauma sent her into labor. The bullet that ushered the boy into the world came from a rifle that the family mistakenly called an AK-42. So the Deng family named him "42," a defiant joke on his would-be killers and a lifetime r...

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