Forgotten War | Uganda
For 20 years, a rebel group called the Lords's Resistance Army (LRP) and its notorious leader Joseph Kony, has been waging war against the Ugandan government, burning down villages, killing civilians, and abducting and forcing children to serve as soldiers and sexual slaves. The LRP have also been accused of widespread human rights violations, including mutilation, torture, rape, and a number of massacres. Often, the abducted civilians are mutilated by having their noses, ears, lips and limbs cut off. Based in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the LRA continues to terrorize life in northern Uganda, causing millions of people to abandon homes and live in dire conditions at the Internally Displaced Persons Camps. People in the area are helped by the Doctors Without Borders that provides health care, rehabilitates and runs hospitals and clinics, battle e[ode,and. carries out vaccination campaigns and offers mental health care.
