Al Jazeera hears from a former child soldier, who was forced to fight for one of Uganda's most notorious rebel groups. Smithsonian affirms independence after Trump says he fired head of Portrait ...

Ranging in age from 7 to 18, they acquired their grim expertise as a result of being kidnapped and forced to serve as soldiers and sex slaves for the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in northern Uganda.

Recently a recent report by Save the Children sounded the alarm over the increased use of child soldiers ... McGUFFIN: The LRA also kidnaps children to fight and serve as sex slaves.

Shortly after that I was fighting in the front against ... women and children — forced into being child soldiers by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in the 1980s and ’90s — have survived ...

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The rally will speak for millions of children in Uganda who were forced to fight as soldiers ... decrying the use of child soldiers. The Invisible Children have previously held many events which ...

Ongwen was 9 years old, a child walking to school ... A United Nations estimate found that the LRA was responsible for killing 100,000 people and forcibly conscripting between 60,000 and 100,000 ...

with many former child soldiers choosing to return home. However, the group’s rebellion remained active. The LRA’s fighting in Uganda was largely diminished after Ugandan forces pushed the ...

What happens to child soldiers once the fighting is over ... back into society – into formal education systems, labour markets, asylum programmes, etc. – are not well-tailored to help former ...