“Lira in Pictures”

Here are some pictures from Lira, including the Dara Christian High School there.  Be sure to visit the  "Fields of Life ," you will be glad you did...Fields of Life is an organization that I have known of since its inception and I have always been amazed at how much they are able to get done with the limited resources available to them ... jon


 


Alice Auma LakwenaAlice Auma Lakwena: The warrior priestess who led thousands of Acholi warriors into battle with sticks and stones.  Joseph Kony was her cousin but the two were very different, Alice Lakwena before her death repeatedly asked Joseph Kony to give up his destructive ways.


Who is Joseph KonyWho is Joseph Kony?  Profile and Background of Joseph Kony and the Child Soldiers of the Lord's Resistance Army.  Joseph Kony has enslaved thousands into becoming child soldiers, made girls into concubines, displacing millions from their homes in Uganda.


 Catherine Ajok:- 13 years in captivity with the LRA, recently set free.  A forced wife of Joseph Kony, read her story of being kidnapped one night from her secondary school, her captivity and eventual freedom from being enslaved by Joseph Kony and the LRA.


New:  The War in Northern Uganda:  The war has deeply affected Uganda's North.  Thousands were killed by the LRA, thousands of children abducted by Kony's Army, many disfigured and maimed, Two million people displaced from their homes.  Villages burned, Displacement Camps attacked, parents left without their children, a way to make a living.  Now in 2009 Northern Uganda is rebuilding, but the scars of war remain, mostly within the people of Northern Uganda.


New:  Where are the children of the LRA?  Over 30,000 children were abducted and enslaved by the LRA in northern and then eastern Uganda.  The question on the mind of Ugandans and South Sudanese is this -Where are the Children that were enslaved by the LRA? 

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Last updated: 06 July 2010

Lira- Uganda in Pictures

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