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home > fellows' stories > spring 2003 > uganda

Parents Take Caution as Kidnappings in Uganda Rise

by Jessie Graham, Spring 2003 IRP Fellow
Reprinted with permission of National Public Radio

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In northern Uganda, parents send their sons and daughters to sleep in the streets in an effort to protect them from rebel forces who invade homes to kidnap small children. Since 1986, the Lord's Resistance Army has kidnapped more than 20,000 children to use as soldiers, UNICEF reports. Hear Jessie Graham.

Listen to Graham's Report at NPR's website

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