First Kill Your Family: Child Soldiers of Uganda and the Lord's Resistance ArmyTold through the voices of those who have suffered, this illuminating expose 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. For the past 20 years, the Lord's Resistance Army has ravaged northern Uganda and has been led by the reclusive Joseph Kony, a former witch doctor and self-professed spirit medium. Through the large-scale abduction and manipulation of children, Kony transformed his army into an efficient killing machine that has murdered nearly 100,000 and displaced two million people. Kony utilized the society's pervasive belief in witchcraft to instill cultlike convictions in his fighters. This insightful analysis delves into the war's foundations and argues that, much like Rwanda's genocide, international intervention is needed to stop Africa's virulent cycle of violence. |
Contents
Richards Story | 1 |
1 Faded Luster of the Pearl | 7 |
2 The Lips Are Not There | 23 |
3 Anatomy of an Attack | 39 |
4 God Grace and the Aboke Girls | 53 |
5 Witch Doctors Rattles and Unholy Ghosts | 71 |
6 A Game of Blood and Spiritualism | 91 |
7 The Arrow Boys | 109 |
10 The Call for Peace | 167 |
11 Armed Conflict Is a Helth Risk | 183 |
12 In Search of Joseph Kony | 203 |
13 Jungle Rendezvous | 223 |
14 The View from Kilimanjaro | 243 |
Metamorphosis | 263 |
Acknowledgments | 279 |
Notes | 281 |
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First Kill Your Family: Child Soldiers of Uganda and the Lord's Resistance Army Peter H. Eichstaedt No preview available - 2013 |
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