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66,000 children are thought to have been forcibly abducted and recruited into the Ugandan guerrilla militia known as the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) during its two-decade long insurgency in the northern region of Uganda (1986-2006). Two-thirds of these children were severely beaten, a fifth were forced to kill, nearly 10 percent were forced to murder a family member or friend to bind them to the group, and those who had been abducted are more than three times as likely to have a serious physical injury or illness that impedes their ability to work. Abductees are twice as likely to report difficulties in family and community relations, have several years less education, and are twice as likely to be illiterate.”

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