 In 1991, Samuel Aru Bol was 62 years of age, married with eight children.He was arrested in Khartoum on 14 October 1991 for criticizing a government decision that schools in South Sudan, and schools in the north set up for Internally Displaced People (IDPs) from the south, would use Arabic rather than English.This was seen as another step in the move to Arabicize the country and submerge the cultural identity of southerners who had in the past been instructed in English.