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| 27 Oct 2015 04:05 PM |
The night rebel soldiers came to my boarding school, I was sleeping so heavily I didn't hear a thing. Some of my friends told me later they were awakened by noises outside: voices, guns cocking, twigs snapping. But not the sounds of boots. That's because most of the 300 attackers carrying loaded AK-47s were barefoot. They were just my age, 15, or younger.
It took rocks crashing through our dormitory windows to jerk me out of my sleep. My eyes opened to girls dashing around the room, screaming. The room was lit by the flames of torches burning through the broken windows. I jumped under my bed and began crying out, "Jesus, help me! Jesus, help me!"
BAM! BAM! Someone was ramming the locked door. And then a voice: "Open or we begin shooting!"
We were so terrified no one tried to stop the frantic girl who unbolted the door. A rebel stormed in and slapped her face with the flat of a machete. The child soldiers dragged us from beneath our beds. They tied all 139 of us together so we couldn't escape. Then, they marched us from the dorm into the darkness of night, machine guns stuck in our backs.
We knew who they were. We'd long feared their arrival. Now we had to choose: Join the Lord's Resistance Army or die.
I grew up in a hut made of dried earth in northern Uganda. My chores included fetching water and firewood to cook food for our family. On Sundays, we walked three miles to attend St. Augustine Anglican Church. I sang in the choir and helped the needy. Life in our village was good.
Still, I was excited to leave for St. Mary's. Not all girls attend school because it's expensive. Many families cannot afford tuition, or only send the boys. Fortunately, I was able to attend St. Mary's. I felt safe there.
Great fear overshadows life in Uganda. Joseph Kony, the founder of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), has devastated my part of Uganda—the region bordering Sudan—in his plans to take over Uganda's government. The LRA name is a lie. Kony says they're acting under God's power, but he mixes Islam, Christianity and spirit worship. And he does real evil. Kony's LRA soldiers, almost all of whom are children as young as 9, raid villages, steal supplies, kill and abduct more kids. It's said that since 1986, the LRA has kidnapped about 25,000 children.
Seven months after I entered St. Mary's, I became one of that 25,000. Standing outside our dorm, the rebels marked crosses on our foreheads, shoulders and chests in shea-nut butter. Miraculously, they freed 109 of us, but I was among the 30 they forced to march—all tied together—through the night. We were crying, terrified and tired. Sharp stones and thorns dug into my shoeless feet. During a short rest, I tied banana leaves to my feet as makeshift shoes.
In the first few days after my kidnapping, I prayed, "Lord, help me escape!" But one girl actually tried. She got caught. LRA commanders forced us to beat her with firewood until she died. If we hit her too lightly, we were beaten. This happened many times as the LRA fighters moved us toward their base in Sudan, stealing more kids along the way. |
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| 27 Oct 2015 04:18 PM |
Then i kissed the LRA soldier. He was fearless to kiss me.
The end
NOW GET OUT
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| 27 Oct 2015 04:39 PM |
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