The Lord’s Resistance Army

By: Charlotte Letson

Soldierhood or Childhood?

Thesis•What the Lord’s Resistance army is doing is wrong• Joseph Kony needs to be stopped• Childhood soldiers should not exist

Milton Obote

Idi Amin

Yoweri Musevini

Alice Lakwena

Joseph Kony

Ugandan Children

Soldiers

Night Commuters

Solutions• Publicizing Uganda turmoil• Exempt Joseph Kony and followers (ICC)–Release all child soldiers

• Set up rehabilitation centers• Build safe areas to sleep

Corporations • Invisible Children• www.resolveuganda.org• Operation Broken Silence• Mercy Corps• Lutheran World Relief• Sumeritans Purse

• Awareness• Change • Action

Invisible Children• Documentary• “Displace Me” Night• Global Night Commute (GNC)• Congressional Awareness

Works Cited– Clark, Michael. “In the Spotlight: The Lord’s

Resistance Army (LRA).” 27 October– 2004. 9 March 2009.– <http://www.cdi.org/program/document.cfm?

documentid=2602&programID=39&from_page>– Pike, John. “Lord’s Resistant Army.” 22 May 2002.

11 March 2009. – <http://www.fas.org/irp/world/para/lra.htm>– Plaut, Martin. “Profile: Uganda’s LRA Rebels.” BBC

News. 6 February 2004. 11 March– 2009.– <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/

3462901stm>– Rowe, John A. “Uganda.” World Book 2007 Edition.