In 2003, three college students from California created a documentary on the exploitation of children in Uganda as child soldiers. The war in which these innocent children's hands are forced into has been called, "the most neglected humanitarian emergency in the world today" (Invisible Children). For the past 21 years, the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and the Ugandan government have waged a war leaving nearly two million innocent civilians caught in the middle. The Ugandan government is not protecting their citizens from this rebel militia which is murdering mothers and either killing or abducting their children. The children who are kidnapped, generally males, are being brainwashed, corrupted, and trained to work as soldiers in a war in which they do not belong.
The picture of the young boy holding the gun is a representation of what life is like in Uganda. He epitomizes the age of the victims who are kidnapped. The rebel forces try to capture children between the ages of 8-14......
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