WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -As a teenager in 1990, Salva led about 1, 500 of the Lost Boys from Ethiopia across hundreds of desert miles southwest through Sudan to the United Nations-controlled Kakuma refugee camp near the Kenyan city of Lodawar.

Detailed explanation-2: -Most just six or seven years old, they fled to Ethiopia to escape death or induction into the northern army. They walked more than a thousand miles, half of them dying before reaching Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya. The survivors of this tragic exodus became known as the Lost Boys of Sudan.

Detailed explanation-3: -Who Are The Lost Boys of Sudan? The Lost Boys were more than 30, 000 Sudanese children who fled a violent Civil War in the late 1980s. Arab militias from the north attacked villages, killing the men and women and setting their homes on fire.

Detailed explanation-4: -Along with 20-thousand other boys who became famous as “The Lost Boys of Sudan, Salva walked, first, to a refugee camp in Ethiopia. Four years later, as a teenager, he led 1500 of the boys on an 800-mile trek through the Southern Sudan desert to another refugee camp in Kenya.