MAYEN NHIAL

The Lost Boys of Sudan The Lost Boys of Sudan," about tens of thousands of young men who fled their villages and walked hundreds of miles to refugee camps, 4000 of whom were eventually resettled United States. But mostly Dinka and Nuer boys whose villages had been destroyed and families killed since 1987. The first journey of the Boys was began in Bor in 1987 on Dec/27/1987. It was cause when the government millitia raided southern villages, killed the adults and capturing the girls. But terrified young boys, many outside of the village tending cattle, fled at the sight of the violence, meeting up with other boys mostly all boys in first departed in 1987. First time it was small groups found one another, and soon tens became hundreds and hundreds became thousands. Together they walked hundred s of miles over several months toward Ethiopia. At that time many died of thirst and starvation, some fell prey to wild animals. When the survivors arrived at Ethiopia refugee camp, they had formed small cadres in which older children some only "nine or ten" after the younger ones. Here is the way victims of war got the name called Lost Boys was mark to them by relief workers named them Lost Boys, but in Dinka called meeth abeer. But in 1991, after three years in the camps, Ethiopian civil war broke out that forced them to flee again. The Ethiopian war cause another jounery for them toward Kenya and some lost their life on the way. But survivors set off to seek shelter in Kenya, one thousand miles away, many walking for many than a years. Thousands were lost on journey , more than twenty thousand boys set out from Ethiopia, eleven thousand {three thousand of them girl} eventually arrived at Kenya's Kakuma Refugee Camp. After surviving for nearly a decade in Kenyan Camps on a single daily meal, in 2000 and 2001 nearly four thousand Lost Boys as the teenager began to be resettled in the United States under international rules allowing for the resettlement of minor children. The famous boys are became victims of the war in Sudan in many decades as the high number lost the life.