Where do our rights end? Joseph R. Kony stripped the rights of thousands of African children. These children were abducted from their homes and were forced into being child soldiers or sex saves. Girls were made into soldiers, cooks, sex slaves, cleaners and wives to rebel soldiers. Boys were made into soldiers and some even into sex slaves. Many children have killed their own families and been forced to engage in inhumane activities such as, mutilating citizens, cut unborn fetus’ out of pregnant women and have disemboweled victims and eaten their organs (Henderson, Sarah, and Alana S. Jeydel. "Part III Chapter 11: Women and Sexual Violence During War." Women and Politics in a Global World. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford UP, 2010. 313-18. Print.).
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Kony has 88 wives as of 2007 ( Green, Matthew (2008). The Wizard of the Nile: The Hunt for Africa's Most Wanted. Portobello Books. p. 136.) and 42 children as of 2006 ( Beatrice Debut Gulu (10 February 2006). "Portrait of Uganda's rebel prophet, painted by wives". Mail & Guardian Online. Retrieved 7 March 2012). These wives were the victims of abduction, rape, sexual harassment, and possible slave trade by Kony himself. Kony treated all of the sex slaves terribly and impregnated them at youngest of age 12. Kony wasn’t always terrible, but wasn’t always a pure angel. Kony was born in August 1961 in Odek, a village east of Gulu in northern Uganda. Kony had a good relationship with his siblings, but would often resort to physical violence when arguing with them. Kony’s family was very religious and was an altar boy for his local church until 1976. This plays a role in Kony’s future life because he was soon to be appointed to a heterodox Christian cult with the aim to make Uganda more pure. This cult affects the view on Christians by making some people think that Christians think their religion is the only great religion and that people or other religions are not pure, so they are to be eliminated. Actions like this have occurred many times in history and is the main reason for
Kony has 88 wives as of 2007 ( Green, Matthew (2008). The Wizard of the Nile: The Hunt for Africa's Most Wanted. Portobello Books. p. 136.) and 42 children as of 2006 ( Beatrice Debut Gulu (10 February 2006). "Portrait of Uganda's rebel prophet, painted by wives". Mail & Guardian Online. Retrieved 7 March 2012). These wives were the victims of abduction, rape, sexual harassment, and possible slave trade by Kony himself. Kony treated all of the sex slaves terribly and impregnated them at youngest of age 12. Kony wasn’t always terrible, but wasn’t always a pure angel. Kony was born in August 1961 in Odek, a village east of Gulu in northern Uganda. Kony had a good relationship with his siblings, but would often resort to physical violence when arguing with them. Kony’s family was very religious and was an altar boy for his local church until 1976. This plays a role in Kony’s future life because he was soon to be appointed to a heterodox Christian cult with the aim to make Uganda more pure. This cult affects the view on Christians by making some people think that Christians think their religion is the only great religion and that people or other religions are not pure, so they are to be eliminated. Actions like this have occurred many times in history and is the main reason for