Posted on Tuesday, August 09, 2005 4:16 PM
Editing a feature today on 14-year-old Jimmy in Northern Uganda. Everyday he walks from his home village to Gulu, to sleep there in a shelter. Jimmy otherwise is afraid of being abducted by rebels of the Lord Resistance Army. The civil conflict in the North of Uganda is raging now for almost twenty years. 20,000 children were abducted. They are absorbed in the ranks of the LRA. They serve as soldiers or sex slaves for the commanders.