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Three children kidnapped by Uganda’s anti-government rebel group, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), and forced to commit atrocities, escape and take refuge in a rehabilitation center.
Northern Uganda has been ravaged by one of Africa's longest civil
wars. For more than 20 years, as many 25,000 children, some as
young as five years old, have been kidnapped by Uganda's
anti-government rebel group, the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), and
forced to serve as child soldiers and sex slaves. Under the command
of LRA leader Joseph Kony, these children have been terrorized into
committing the worst atrocities, even killing their own families.
"Lord's Children" follows three former LRA soldiers who escaped
from the bush and have taken refuge in a rehabilitation center.
WIDE ANGLE is with the center's counselors as they help the
physically and emotionally scarred children put their lives back
together. Fourteen-year old Jennifer was abducted by the LRA when
she was nine-years old, handed a gun and trained to kill. Raped by
a rebel soldier, she now fears that she's HIV positive. Kilama, 13,
is rejected by his grandmother, who is fearful of his turbulent
past. Homeless, he wanders to the nearby city, like thousands of
other children, in constant fear of being re-kidnapped by the
rebels. At a young age, Francis witnessed the execution of two
boys, killed by machete for not following orders. Terrified of a
similar fate, he fled and now hopes to be reunited with his mother.
As these children piece their lives together, the LRA continues to
carry out attacks in the region. Though the ICC issued an arrest
warrant for Kony in 2005, he remains at large, hiding in the jungle
of neighboring Congo.