The Injustices of Uganda
There are many Ugandan children who have experienced the horrible injustices as a child soldier. These soldiers were forced to kill, maim, slaughter, riot, kill civilians and even their own families. Children are being forced to be soldiers and if they don’t, they are killed. When the soldiers find a way to escape the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) they find there way back home but even that is hard because the leaders of the LRA would kill them. If they make it back to where they were before they were taken, the villagers find it hard to accept them back into society. So, there needs to be some kind of support place for the soldiers and a place where the villagers will understand what the soldiers are going through. The other countries who has power need to help …show more content…
Joseph Kony started his insurgency in 1987. He did not focus on military targets, instead the LRA targeted the very citizens they claim to be fighting for. This is one of the first accounts for raiding villages for supplies and forcing children to carry the goods into the bush. “In 1991, President Yoweri Museveni’s government launched a huge military campaign, known as operation north, to destroy the LRA. The assault failed, and with the support of the Sudanese government, in Khartoum, the rebels were able to establish safe bases in Southern Sudan.’ (Rice, Xan)” Even if there government tried to stop the uprising power, they don't have the means necessary to help the civilians and fight the LRA. At first the LRA had good morals but as time went on, when Kony became leader, they lost sight of what there were fighting for. “According to former LRA fighters, Kony’s stated goal is to overthrow President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda and create a state based on Kony’s interpretation of the biblical Ten Commandments.’(Human Rights)” Now the LRA is just fighting to fight so they don't get
There are many Ugandan children who have experienced the horrible injustices as a child soldier. These soldiers were forced to kill, maim, slaughter, riot, kill civilians and even their own families. Children are being forced to be soldiers and if they don’t, they are killed. When the soldiers find a way to escape the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) they find there way back home but even that is hard because the leaders of the LRA would kill them. If they make it back to where they were before they were taken, the villagers find it hard to accept them back into society. So, there needs to be some kind of support place for the soldiers and a place where the villagers will understand what the soldiers are going through. The other countries who has power need to help …show more content…
Joseph Kony started his insurgency in 1987. He did not focus on military targets, instead the LRA targeted the very citizens they claim to be fighting for. This is one of the first accounts for raiding villages for supplies and forcing children to carry the goods into the bush. “In 1991, President Yoweri Museveni’s government launched a huge military campaign, known as operation north, to destroy the LRA. The assault failed, and with the support of the Sudanese government, in Khartoum, the rebels were able to establish safe bases in Southern Sudan.’ (Rice, Xan)” Even if there government tried to stop the uprising power, they don't have the means necessary to help the civilians and fight the LRA. At first the LRA had good morals but as time went on, when Kony became leader, they lost sight of what there were fighting for. “According to former LRA fighters, Kony’s stated goal is to overthrow President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda and create a state based on Kony’s interpretation of the biblical Ten Commandments.’(Human Rights)” Now the LRA is just fighting to fight so they don't get