Rapper Emmanuel Jal was carrying an AK-47 rifle at 8 years old, as a child soldier conscripted into the Sudan People's Liberation Army. Now he's a rising international music star, with a new album ...

WASHINGTON (CNN)-- When he was a little boy in Sudan, singer Emmanuel Jal's mother was killed. Soldiers raped his sister. At the age of 9, filled with longings for revenge, he became a child soldier.

War Child, which opens today at E Street Cinema for a one-week special engagement (tickets can be purchased here [both screening times are sold out]), documents the harrowing yet inspirational story ...

I was still a kid. I fought for the wrong reasons. - Emmanuel Jal, actor and former child soldier "A lot of kids died of starvation on the way. Some died of dehydration. Some were eaten by wild ...

Emmanuel Jal was only 8 when he was dragged into ... that it has made an agreement that will gradually release 3,000 child soldiers from the armed group called the South Sudan Democratic Army ...

Emmanuel Jal is a rap star who already holds the key ... he is Sudanese by birth and a former child soldier. His music is already at the top of the charts in his adopted home of Kenya.

When Emmanuel Jal was just seven-years-old, he lost his mother to the conflict in South Sudan. Jal was recruited as a child soldier and later found himself as a refugee in Kenya and Ethiopia after ...

Emmanuel Jal was born in the early 1980s, not long before his home country of Sudan descended into civil war. The violence tore his family apart and he became a child soldier to survive.

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Story: At 8 years old, Emmanuel Jal was carrying an AK-47 rifle as a child soldier in the Sudan People's Liberation Army. Taken from battle and adopted by a British aid worker, he is now a rising ...

Starved, brainwashed and beaten, Emmanuel Jal was a child soldier who escaped Sudan's war. Now he's an actor, musician and activist. But he says... Emmanuel Jal was only 8 when he was dragged into ...

When he was about seven years old his mother was killed by soldiers, and he decided ... The film documentary about Emmanuel Jal called War Child made its international debut at the Berlin Film ...