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Wide Angle "Lord's Children"
The region of Northern Uganda has been ravaged by one of Africa's longest civil wars. For over 20 years, as many 25,000 children, some as young as five years old, have been kidnapped by Uganda's anti-government rebel group, the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), and forced to serve as child soldiers and sex slaves. Under the command of LRA leader Joseph Kony, these children have been terrorized into committing the worst atrocities, even killing their own families.
Lord's Children follows three former LRA soldiers who escaped from the bush and have since taken refuge in a rehabilitation center. Wide Angle is with the center's counselors as they help the physically and emotionally scarred children put their lives back together. Fourteen-year old Jennifer was abducted by the LRA when she was nine-years old, handed a gun, and trained to kill. Raped by a rebel soldier, Jennifer now fears that she is HIV positive. Kilama, 13, is rejected by his grandmother, who's fearful of his turbulent past. Homeless, he wanders to the nearby city, like thousands of other children, in constant fear of being re-kidnapped by the rebels. At a young age, Francis witnessed two boys executed with machetes for not following orders. Terrified of a similar fate, he fled and now hopes to be reunited with his mother. As these children piece their lives together, the LRA continues to carry out attacks in the region. While the ICC issued an arrest warrant for Kony in 2005, he remains at large hiding in the jungle of neighboring Congo.
Air Date
Tuesday, 7/29/08 from 10-11 p.m. ET
Website
pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/
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