First Kill Your Family Child Soldiers of Uganda and the Lord's Resistance Army

Name: First Kill Your Family Child Soldiers of Uganda and the Lord's Resistance Army
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ISBN: 9781613748091

ISBN-10: 1613748094

ISBN-13: 9781613748091

Edition: 2013

Authors: Peter Eichstaedt

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Told through the voices of those who have suffered, this illuminating exposé examines how a forgotten region of one of Africa’s most promising nations—Uganda, dubbed "the pearl" of Africa by Winston Churchill—has been systematically destroyed by a bloody, senseless, and seemingly endless war that has gone largely unnoticed by the rest of the world. For the past 20 years, the Lord’s Resistance Army has ravaged northern Uganda and has been led by the reclusive Joseph Kony, a former witch doctor and self-professed spirit medium. Through the large-scale abduction and manipulation of children, Kony transformed his army into an efficient killing machine that has murdered nearly 100,000 and…

Book details

List price: $18.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/1/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Maps


Preface


Chronology


Prologue: Richard's Story



Faded Luster of the Pearl



The Lips Are Not There



Anatomy of an Attack



God, Grace, and the Aboke Girls



Witch Doctors, Rattles, and Unholy Ghosts



A Game of Blood and Spiritualism



The Arrow Boys



Degrees of Darkness



Back to the Land



The Call for Peace



Armed Conflict Is a Health Risk



In Search of Joseph Kony



Jungle Rendezvous



The View from Kilimanjaro


Epilogue: Metamorphosis


Afterword: Bring in the Drones


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index