Journey of victims of the war in Sudan./1987

Sudan is the largest country in Africa, its area encompassing nearly more one million square miles. It is lies in the northern part of the continent and is a land of widely differing geography. In the North, it is covered with vast deserts; grassy palms fill the central region, and steamy jungles and swamps lies to the South.

The Nile River is by far Sudan's most important geographic feature. Most of Southern Sudan consists of a flood plain formed by its branches, with dense, jungle-like vegetation covering much of the region. Mountain ranges rise along the borders shared with Uganda, Kenya and Ethiopia. But the rainfall averages from thirty-two to fifty inches annually.  But the Southern Sudan is rich with wild animals, including gazelles, giraffes, lions, leopards, and elephants roam the South. But across the Nile's branches live hippopotamuses and crocodiles.              

  The Young/Red-Armies of Sudan Journey in 80s...  

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 begun in Great Jonglei- Bor & Great Bhar-EL-Ghazel in 1985- 1987.  It was cause when the government militia 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 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 mith- 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 journey for them toward Kenya and some lost their lives on the way.

But survivors set off to seek shelter in Kenya, one thousand miles away, many walking for many than 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 cause of high population lost their lives.