Tuesday, 17 February 2015

Uganda: The thin line between victim and perpetrator

Florence Ayot was nine when she was abducted from her home in Uganda’s vast and arid north. That was in 1989. She would spend 15 years with the rebels of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), trekking through the seemingly endless bush. In 2004, she managed to escape.
“I feel bad that I was abducted,” she says. She is sitting next to a charcoal fire and a tin cooking pot in her hut of clay and reeds in the northern Ugandan town of Gulu.
“I wasted my time and came back with injuries. I have a bomb splinter in my head and a bullet in my leg.”
A lump can be felt in her right calf.
Read more: http://mg.co.za/article/2015-02-16-uganda-the-thin-line-between-victim-and-perpetrator

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