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http://www.harpers.org/MidnightsChildren.html
The following accounts are included in When the Sun Sets, We Start to Worry . . . , published in November 2003 by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Since Yoweri Museveni became president in 1986, more than 1.2 million Ugandans have been displaced, and tens of thousands killed, in fighting between the official Uganda People's Defense Forces (UPDF) and rebel factions, including the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). The use of abducted children as soldiers and slaves has been a major feature of the conflict; since 2002, the LRA has kidnapped more than 20,000 children, usually at night. To avoid abduction, thousands of children leave their villages every night to hide in forests, hospitals, and churches. Originally from Harper's Magazine, August 2004.
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