The Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/para/lra.htm
The final article I read for this section of the marketplace of ideas was about the UPDA turning into the LRA in 1991. Joseph Kony had refused to go along with a peace agreement that would have ended some of the violence. There after, the LRA kills, tortures, rapes, maims, abducts, and in other forms abuses children who are forced into being soldiers. More than 6,000 soldiers were abducted in 1998. This is a number too large but one that unfortunately continued to grow at rapid speed. The LRA claimed that they were basing their work on the Ten Commandments, but if you ask anyone outside the LRA, the Ten Commandments would be seemingly far from the work that they are doing. Amnesty International has done a lot to help the war, but it is a very hard battle against the LRA and Joseph Kony. Because no numbers are kept for records on how many children have been abducted, killed, raped, maimed, sold to sex, there is no way in knowing the extent to how horrible this war actually is.
yours truly,
Amy
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