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 * LRA (Lord’s Resistance Army) is a rebel group that abducts children and forces them to be child soldiers.About 20,000 to 30,000 children have been abducted since the conflict began.
 * The war went on for 19 years.
 * Child soldiers were used by the national army too, they were used to gather intelligence on the LRA and identify LRA positions and weapon caches.
 * The civil war finally ended in mid 2006, though the LRA still hasn't released all of the children and woman.
 * The child soldiers were forced to participate in combat and to carry out raids, kill other child soldiers and civilians, and burn houses.
 * Children were forced to kill family members, to initiate them into the LRA.
 * Girls in the LRA were raped and sometimes declared wives of commanders.
 * The LRA is lead by Joseph Kony.
 * Child soldiers were forced to kill other children who tried to escape.
 * Children in outlying villages moved into towns at night so they wouldn't be kidnapped by the LRA.
 * Child soldiers being abducted peaked in 2002 with around 1000 children being abducted that year.

http://www.childsoldiersglobalreport.org/content/uganda http://childrenwithguns.blogspot.com/2007/01/breaking-it-down-children-soldiers_22.html