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Post by WolfishGrin on Mar 8, 2012 19:54:28 GMT 10
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Post by george on Mar 9, 2012 9:59:45 GMT 10
Thanks WG. About 5 years ago I went to Uganda with a group of guys where we built a school in a remote area of Uganda, and then built some class rooms to additions in ongoing programs. The schools are for aids orphans and also for children who were kidnapped by Koney as child soldiers or girls as prostitutes. We went to a town called Gulu where a lot of those kids who had been kidnapped had been brought into. It is a large complex where the program is to educate those children and try to re-integrate the children back into their society. There was a young boy of about 17 yrs who was assigned to our work team for a day. He was mixing concrete and doing hard labour without shoes on. He told us he was kidnapped by Koney when he was 13 yrs old and that the rebel soldiers had killed his father and brother. He was working and hoping to make enough money to give his father and brother a proper burial. We gave him a few hundred dollars so that he could give his family that burial. We also bought him a couple of pairs of gum boots to wear whilst working. We met other boys and girls who were victims of Koney. It is heart breaking to hear their stories. Boys were kidnapped and their will and minds broken so that they were forced to return to their villages and murder their own families. Girls were raped and used by the rebel soldiers for sex. More often than not the girls were then infected with aids, got pregnant and infected their children. After becoming pregnant they were dumped in the jungles, some made it back home.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2012 19:55:25 GMT 10
That brought a tear to my eye George. It's really sad that this stuff has been going on for so long, and I honestly cant believe I had never heard of this guy or the pathetic things that are going on til recently. I know I live in a hole at times but I woulda thought there would be outcry about this sort of thing before now.
Good on the Invisible Children for doing something about these atrocities. I will do anything I can to support them and hope that they fulfill their mission and soon.
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Post by george on Mar 10, 2012 12:45:38 GMT 10
There are a lot of atrocities for which Kony is responsible. A particular sad incident was when Kony's rebel soldiers broke into a girls orphanage just out of Gulu. They smashed down a brick wall to the girls dorm area and kidnapped 30 girls aged between 8-18 yrs. One of the nuns from the orphanage followed the trail day and night and after 3 nights came across the camp where the soldiers and girls were and she pleaded to the rebels to let the girls go. The leader of the rebels said he would allow the nun to take 12 girls back and he made her choose which girls could go back. Each of the girls pleaded with the nun to pick them. With tears in her eyes she picked the youngest and most innocent.
When I was there we visited a camp where there were over 3000 refugees living. Their village was burnt down by Kony's rebel army and many boys and girls kidnapped.
The boy solider issue was depicted in the movie Blood Diamond with Leonardo Di Caprio.
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Post by WolfishGrin on Mar 10, 2012 17:25:05 GMT 10
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2012 21:51:09 GMT 10
   These stories are just heartbreaking! I really hope this experiment works, and this method can also be used to remove a large number of other injustices we have worldwide. (Not to mention the critics of this experiment realise that whatever faults it may have, the underlying intent is worth it...and without this level of attention and assistance, it could never be expected to fix its own faults for the better). Hear Hear!! |
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These stories are just heartbreaking! I really hope this experiment works, and this method can also be used to remove a large number of other injustices we have worldwide. (Not to mention the critics of this experiment realise that whatever faults it may have, the underlying intent is worth it...and without this level of attention and assistance, it could never be expected to fix its own faults for the better).