First Kill Your Family: Child Soldiers of Uganda and the Lord's Resistance Army

Told through the voices of those who have suffered, this title 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.

Autorentext
Peter Eichstaedt is the Africa editor for the Institute of War and Peace Reporting in The Hague. He is a veteran journalist who has reported from locations worldwide, including Slovenia, Moldova, Afghanistan, Albania, Armenia, and Uganda, and a former senior editor for Uganda Radio Network. He is the author of If You Poison Us: Uranium and Native Americans.

Klappentext
For twenty years, the Lord's Resistance Army, led by Joseph Kony, ravaged northern Uganda with the mission of establishing a government based on his bizarre blend of spiritualism and Christianity. A former witchdoctor and spirit medium, Kony claimed he not only could predict the future but could control the minds of his fighters. And control them he did: the LRA consisted of children abducted from their homes. As initiation, boys were forced to commit atrocities--murdering relatives and friends--and girls were forced into sexual slavery and labor. Journalist Peter Eichstaedt goes into the war-torn villages and refugee camps, talking to former child soldiers, child "brides," and other victims. Told through the voices of those who have suffered, the book chronicles how one of Africa's most promising nations has been torn apart by a bloody and senseless war that has gone largely unnoticed by the rest of the world.


Inhalt
Preface; Chronology; Prologue: Richard's Story; Faded Lustre of the Pearl; The Lips Are Not There; Anatomy of an Attack; God, Grace & the Aboke Girls; Witch Doctors, Rattles & Unholy Ghosts; A Game of Blood & Spiritualism; The Arrow Boys; Degrees of Darkness; Back to the Land; The Call for Peace; Armed Conflict is a Health Risk; In Search of Joseph Kony; Jungle Rendezvous; The View From Kilimanjaro; Index.

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