Child, Victim, Soldier: The Loss of Innocence in UgandaSunday Obote was only seven when he was kidnapped by the Lord's Resistance Army, a rebel group in northern Uganda. His life abruptly changed from peaceful village life, where he fished and hunted with his friends, to the savagery of the LRA. Sunday was turned into a child soldier trained to kill on demand, even killing other children. |
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... Oscar is eighteen years old . He is gentle , handsome , and good - natured , bearing no outward sign of the trauma or the excruciating pain that has settled deep in his soul in recent years . He smiles readily . Of all the child ...
... Oscar is eighteen years old . He is gentle , handsome , and good - natured , bearing no outward sign of the trauma or the excruciating pain that has settled deep in his soul in recent years . He smiles readily . Of all the child ...
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... Oscar and his brother were out with two LRA rebels on patrol , ordered to kidnap others . When the sol- diers fell asleep , Oscar's brother took him by the hand and they ran into the night and eventually into safety . The brother who ...
... Oscar and his brother were out with two LRA rebels on patrol , ordered to kidnap others . When the sol- diers fell asleep , Oscar's brother took him by the hand and they ran into the night and eventually into safety . The brother who ...
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... homeland ? How will Sunday Obote pardon those who stole his entire childhood from him when he was just seven years old ? How will Oscar find the inner wherewithal to confront and forgive those who wiped out his Kony and Koresh 119.
... homeland ? How will Sunday Obote pardon those who stole his entire childhood from him when he was just seven years old ? How will Oscar find the inner wherewithal to confront and forgive those who wiped out his Kony and Koresh 119.
Contents
Foreword by Archbishop John Baptist Odama Gulu Uganda Introduction 1 Meeting the Victims | 1 |
The Background of the LRA Rebellion vii | 35 |
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