I went to see "Invisible Children" last night and was suprised to learn about the 23 year war that has been taking place in Uganda with child soldiers. The Ugandan government has not been able to eradicate the Lords Resistance Army which regularly abducts very young children from their families to fight for them. The children are forced to kill people and destroy their lives. This obviously has a very profound impact on these child soldiers and many of them are traumatized for the rest of their lives.
There are some advocacy groups throughout the world who want to illuminate this terrible situation to the world. I had previously never heard of this conflict in the media event though it has been happening for 23 years and children continue to be abducted from their families. The documentary's message was how this situation could change for the better if people throughout the world united together and brought justice to Uganda and its people.
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