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Northern Uganda The Years of Violence For nearly twenty years, the people of Northern Uganda were terrorized by an unspeakably brutal war. An evil man, named Joseph Kony, led his Lord’s Resistance Army to loot and burn villages throughout the region and mutilate and kill civilians wherever he went. Many of his soldiers were child victims, whom he abducted and then forced to kill even their families and closest friends. It is estimated that 30,000 to 60,000 children lost their childhoods after being taken captive. The boys became soldiers and the girls were made into sex slaves for Kony’s men. It is hard to perceive the daily fear that the people felt, knowing that at any time they could be killed or abducted. Many lived in bushes at night, trying to protect their children. More than 40,000 mothers and their children, called “Night Commuters," walked every night into the main towns for refuge and then at daybreak trudged the long distances back home. The vast majority, nearl

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