Last week I talked about the background of these “invisible children” and this week I want to tell you about horrific attacks and abductions that involve the LRA, so you can get a realistic view of this problem.
ATTACKS:
· In January of 1997, the LRA attacked a village called Lamwo, in Northern Uganda. They killed more than 400 and 100,000 people that were mostly children were either displaced or forced to fight in the LRA’s army.
· In June of 1998, it was estimated that 10,000 children were abducted in 1 year alone.
· In May of 2002, the LRA attacked Eastern Sudan and killed 450 innocent people. The LRA killed many of the civilians by forcing them to walk off a cliff.
· In 2007, The UN reported that 2,000 people had been killed and 2,500 people had been abducted in a year alone, in Uganda.
· On Christmas of 2008, the LRA went into a Catholic church called Faradje where many people were celebrating Christmas and massacred 189 people and abducted 120 children. The next day the LRA attacked three other communities in Uganda killing 336 more innocent civilians.
· On December 28 of 2008, The LRA attacked a church in Doruma, Uganda. LRA soldiers went into the church and began hacking people to death. It is estimated that 45 people were killed but exact numbers where not know because the bodies were so badly damaged.
· On September 21st, 2009 3 aid relief members from COOPI were killed by LRA soldiers.
· In February of 2011, a town of Bandangana feel victim to the LRA. They went through the town damaging every house and sparing nothing. A 14-year-old girl is reported to be still barely alive after being shot in the chest. In all 8 people were killed and 30 abducted. The saddest thing was there were aid agencies their but they evacuated because they felt as if they couldn’t do anything, and the residents were left to fend for themselves.
· In 2011, the LRA has intensified their attacks but more so in the Oriental province. It is estimated that so far 35 people have been killed and 104 abducted. If that is not enough 17,000 people are displaced from their homes in fear that they will be killed next.
These are just some of the many attacks and abductions that are happening in Africa. I would just like to point out that a lot of the LRA’s soldiers were abducted from their own homes and are forced to fight by joseph Kony. Many of them don’t want to fight but are scared for their lives. In one documentary I came across a little boy that use to be a solider in the LRA’s army was saying he was addicted to the sight of blood and if he didn’t see it for a day or so he would actually get headaches. I seriously can’t even phantom this but the LRA’s officials literally brainwash the people they abduct and make them do horrible things. As I began to research this blog I was honestly dumbfounded because I didn’t know all of this was occurring. It was shocking to me was that I have never heard about any of this on the news which is sad. There are many things you can do to help this issue. There are many websites you can go on and donate money and I recommend invisiblechildren.com. You can buy products that children in Uganda make and the money received goes to that particular child. The biggest thing you can do however is just get the word out.
I recomende everyone to watch this video, it is very powerful!
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