First Kill Your Family : Child Soldiers of Uganda and the Lord's Resistance Army
ISBN: 9781569762585
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
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Subjects: Social Science;

Told through the voices of those who have suffered, this illuminating exposé examines how a forgotten region of one of Africa's most promising nations--Uganda, dubbed "the pearl" of Africa by Winston Churchill--has been systematically destroyed by a bloody, senseless, and seemingly endless war that has gone largely unnoticed by the rest of the world. For the past 20 years, the Lord's Resistance Army has ravaged northern Uganda and has been led by the reclusive Joseph Kony, a former witch doctor and self-professed spirit medium. Through the large-scale abduction and manipulation of children, Kony transformed his army into an efficient killing machine that has murdered nearly 100,000 and displaced two million people. Kony utilized the society's pervasive belief in witchcraft to instill cultlike convictions in his fighters. This insightful analysis delves into the war's foundations and argues that, much like Rwanda's genocide, international intervention is needed to stop Africa's virulent cycle of violence.


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