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: 9781556527999

ISBN-10: 1556527993

ISBN-13: 9781556527999

Edition: 2009

Authors: Peter Eichstaedt, Peter H. Eichstaedt

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Told through the voices of those who have suffered, this illuminating expose examines how a forgotten region of one of Africa7;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 Lord7;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: $24.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/1/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.99" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Preface


Chronology


Prologue: Richard's Story


Faded Lustre of the Pearl


The Lips Are Not There


Anatomy of an Attack


God, Grace & the Aboke Girls


Witch Doctors, Rattles & Unholy Ghosts


A Game of Blood & 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


Index