Who were the Lost Boys of Sudan? A. males who enlisted in the Sudanese army as young children and never returned home
B. males who fled Sudan in 1987 during a civil war and hiked to Ethiopia
C. boys whose parents were killed during a war between Ethiopia and Sudan in 1987
D. boys who grew up in orphanges that closed during the civil war in Sudan

D. Boys who grew up in orphanages that closed during the civil war in Sudan.

Explanation:

The Lost Boys of Sudan refers to a group of over 20,000 boys of the Nuer and Dinka ethnic groups who were displaced or orphaned during the Second Sudanese Civil War (1987–2005). Two million were killed and others were severely affected by the conflict. The term was used by healthcare workers in the refugee camps and may have been derived from the children's story of Peter Pan.The term also was used to refer to children who fled the post-independence violence in South Sudan in 2011–2013.

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