Sudan in trouble.

1. A genocide is a mass killing of a group of people. First targeted and then killed. Example - The Jews in Hitler's time.

2. A civil war is a war within a country. Two different types of people from the same country fighting. For political, racial, or social differences.

3.Sudan's civil war started in 1971 and ended in 1982.

4.Because racial, cultural, and religious differences within Sudan. Also because the North wanted to get the South's oil, and because in the South it's Christian and in the North it is mainly Muslim.

5.17 million. Tortured, raped, and the schools and hospitals are being bombed.

6. The country should be separated so that they can stop fighting and inocent lives could be spared.

7. The lost boys are a lot of boys (1000 or even more) that every day get threatend by wild animals and people on their journey to save their own lives. They walked from Sudan to Ethiopia and then to Kenya trying to get help. 100 of the Lost Boys were taken to America for a new chance. There are still 1000's left.