Child Soldiers – The Life After
October 21, 2011
The leader of the Lord's Resistance Army, Joseph Kony, answers journalists' questions following a meeting with UN officials in southern Sudan, Nov 2006 (file photo)
With U.S. forces now helping in the hunt for LRA rebels in Central Africa, closure may be at hand for thousands of former child soldiers. One estimate says the LRA abducted more than 20,000 children in Northern Uganda over 20 years and made them slaves and killers.
For Fred Bemak news of U.S. assistance in tracking down the Lord’s Resistance Army is very welcome indeed.
“The reaction is pretty clear and can be summed up in one word – finally!”
Bemak is a professor of education and human development at George Mason University in Virginia. He’s also a professional counselor, who works closely with the NGO Invisible Children.
“It’s so important that we are taking care of these issues of the LRA. This is an organization that has been committing atrocities for decades and not been stopped. I think it’s phenomenal that we are supporting this,” he said.
In the middle of the night
It’s believed that military offensives against the Lord’s Resistance Army has caused it to break up into about a dozen or so small groups. Northern Uganda is now rebuilding after years of conflict. However, those small groups continue to attack and kill civilians in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic and South Sudan.
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