A threatening crisis has been happening in Sudan. Estimated amount of ten thousand people have been murdered in the sixteen months of a civil war in Darfur, an African location in western Sudan. But the civil war has caused 20,000 Sudanese children to be displaced from their families. Only being at such a young age of five or six years old, these boys escaped their home to flee the civil war, walking more than a thousand miles to seek refugee camps. The survivors of this flee were known as the Lost Boys of Sudan. The world should have been responsible for preventing these wars that stretched out for more than a decade, the world should have been responsible for helping the countries, and saving the children.
The civil war in Sudan, it has caused many children to be uprooted from their homes, and in general was just a big crisis for Sudanese people. Many other countries have not experienced anything as extreme as this. That is why it’s others responsibilities to help out, so nothing as extreme as this will…show more content… “Where a woman's plea comes to an end,
As a sharp gunshot cuts through the air.” These two lines from the poem express the unmerciful events that were happening in Sudan. “When the smoke of burning men fills the air: A smoke that no wind can fend. When you take a breath and you declare: This is when it really ends.” Zammit stated that the people of Sudan had no more hope left. Even Ger Duany, a former Lost Boy of Sudan has stated that he felt surprised the new-found independence of South Sudan happened in his lifetime. “Through two civil wars that lasted a total of 39 years, this is what we had hoped, prayed and fought for; it was hard to believe it was happening in my lifetime.” Ger Duany said. Because of the lack of hope it’s important that refugee camps and international establishments helped out to give hope back to the Lost
