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Listen to an interview with the Bishop of Kitgum.

Northern Uganda:
break the silence

John John - a typical story
John has a typical story among children abducted by the Lord’s Resistance Army: as punishment for trying to escape, he was forced to kill his own younger brother.

Now thousands of children have been coming into the towns of Kitgum and Gulu to sleep on the streets at night because they feel safer than in their villages.

External links

www.km-net.org
Kacoke Madit, an organisation of Acholi people living in the UK who campaign for peace in northern Uganda.

www.irinews.org
UN news service.
Regular news stories from northern Uganda

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Further Stories

Child Soldiers
Since 1990, 28,000 children have been abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army…

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A people living in fear
Some 1.6 million Acholi people in Gulu and Kitgum districts are now displaced and living in so-called 'protected camps'. But they still fear the random terror of the LRA.

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'Night Commuters'
Every night, up to 30,000 children flood into Gulu and Kitgum towns to sleep on the streets, too frightened to sleep in their villages for fear of abduction…

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