Former Ugandan LRA child soldier: 'Sometimes I feel guilty I survived because so many children died in the struggle'Former Ugandan LRA child soldier: 'Sometimes I feel guilty I survived because so ...

LRA rebels roam northern Uganda’s countryside in small units ... such as AIDS education efforts and support for former child soldiers and formerly abducted persons. In May 2004, Congress ...

The Saturday event will decry child soldiers in Uganda caught in the conflict between the government ... The rally will speak on behalf of the children who were abducted by the LRA. It will ask the ...

A court in Uganda has convicted Thomas ... murder and forcibly recruiting child soldiers. Following their expulsion by the Ugandan military, the LRA rebels relocated to the politically unstable ...

The defense lawyer for Joseph Kony, the elusive leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), has formally requested the International Criminal Court (ICC) to reconsider its decision to hold a ...

The seventeen-year war in northern Uganda has been characterized by great brutality by the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), as documented in Human Rights Watch's 1997 report, The Scars of Death ...

Dominic Ongwen was forced to become a child soldier after being kidnapped at age 9; his case cast light on the moral responsibility of those abducted as minors.

Research on child soldiers in 1998 revealed that an estimated 300,000 children or more under the age of eighteen were fighting in more than thirty armed conflicts around the world. Although most ...

Kony and the LRA came into the global spotlight when a short documentary ... film since it was published and it brought immense attention to the plight of child soldiers in Uganda. The landlocked ...

For over 18 years a civil war in northern Uganda ... of the LRA ( Lord's Resistance Army) are waging a bloody guerilla campaign. They abduct children and conscript them as soldiers, forcing ...

World News // 4 years ago Uganda militant, former child soldier found guilty of war crimes ... 1 decade ago U.N. appalled by activities of LRA in Central Africa The U.N. Security Council said ...