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Child soldiers Since 1990, some 28,000 children have been abducted by the Lord’s Resistance Army, 12,000 of those in the last two years. They came for Peter Ochan, 14, when he was sleeping. He and other abducted kids were made to walk all night and all day before they were allowed to rest. He spent 10 months in LRA captivity. The clubbing of children to death by rebel commanders was a daily ritual, he says. He and others were made to carry around the decomposing body of a boy killed for trying to escape. “We carried the body on our shoulders everywhere we went,” he said. “It smelt very bad. We were told it was part of our training. The commander then told us to scoop out the brains from what was left of the body and show them around to others.” CMS’ Jenny Taylor met John, a former LRA fighter who’s now managed to escape. He was kidnapped into the rebel army. When he was caught trying to escape the first time, the commanders forced him to kill his little brother. For more background on the horrors of child
abduction, select
here for features from the United Nations’ news service. |
Other Stories 'Night Commuters' A people living in fear Joseph Kony, the Lord’s Resistance
Army, and the Ugandan government |
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