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 ...

Kony brainwashed his young soldiers, convincing them ... had conducted an operation freeing 14 children who had been enslaved by the terrorist group LRA for eight years. "During the operation ...

children and adults it abducted frequently have been beaten into submission to serve as LRA soldiers. Many are given weapons training and some are forced to fight against the UPDF and, inside ...

While armed groups are often at the center of child soldier recruitment, Yared emphasized that governments across Africa have also faced accusations of enlisting children into their forces. Such ...

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 ...

Relief workers have condemned the army’s use of helicopter gunships to fight LRA units because women and children are killed along with the rebel soldiers. The Ugandan Army defends the practice.

The case of Dominic Ongwen, a former child soldier turned commander, was a significant issue. Ongwen was tried at the ICC in The Hague in 2021. Abducted by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA ...

The rebels of the LRA ( Lord's Resistance Army) are waging a bloody guerilla campaign. They abduct children and conscript them as soldiers, forcing them to kill their own people. The film Lost ...

Ongwen pleaded not guilty to all charges in 2016 and argued for leniency because he had been forced to serve as a child soldier. During a rambling two-hour presentation in his own defense last April, ...