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Child soldiers in Uganda are members of the Lord's Resistance Army, a rebel group that has been abducting young people since 1987 to fill out their ranks. Children and youth (both boys and girls) are usually abducted from their homes, [ 1 ] often with one or more others, and in characteristically violent ways.
Dominic Ongwen (born 1975) is a Ugandan former child soldier and former commander of one of the brigades of the Ugandan guerrilla group Lord's Resistance Army (LRA).. He was detained in 2014 [5] and in 2021 the International Criminal Court convicted him of war crimes and crimes against humanity, including murder, rape, torture, and enslavement.
She ended up becoming a child soldier for the National Resistance Army. [2] [3] [4] China’s early years in Uganda and as a female child soldier showed the sexual assault that girls and women face in times of war and conflict. [5] Kampala fell on 26 January 1986, and Museveni was
The government of Uganda referred the situation to the Court on 16 December 2003. [9] The referral was communicated via a letter sent by President Yoweri Museveni to the Prosecutor of the ICC, Luis Moreno Ocampo. The two met following the referral to establish the methods of cooperation between the Office of the Prosecutor and the government of ...
Invisible Children, advocacy group and documentary about LRA's child soldiers; News about Uganda from the UN Integrated Regional Information Networks; Compiled recent news articles about Uganda, AllAfrica.com; Uganda page, Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre
Ricky Richard Anywar . Rick Richard Anywar is a Ugandan politician and former child soldier of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebel founded by Joseph Kony.Anywar was conscripted at the age of 14 and served in the rebel army for two years before escaping at the age of 16.
Also by 2004, Africa had become the first continent where recruiters of child soldiers faced the consequences of international law with indictments from the Special Court of Sierra Leone, and investigations into child soldier recruitment in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo under the Rome Statute. [4] [86]
Several biographical texts and documentaries have been written and produced documenting the experiences of Akallo and her fellow child soldiers, most notably being the 2007 autobiography; Girl Soldier: A Story of Hope for Northern Uganda's Children, co-authored with Faith J. H. McDonnell, the 2015 biography Grace Akallo and the Pursuit of ...