"Nearly 90 percent of LRA fighters are enslaved children, kidnapped from their families.
Under threat of death, LRA child soldiers attack villages, shooting and cutting off people's lips, ears, hands, feet, or breasts, at times force-feeding the severed body parts to victims' families. Some cut open the bellies of pregnant women and tear their babies out. Men and women are gang-raped. As a warning to those who might report them to Ugandan authorities, they bore holes in the lips of victims and padlock them shut. Victims are burned alive or beaten to death with machetes and clubs. The murderous task is considered properly executed only when the victim is mutilated beyond recognition and his or her blood spatters the killer's clothing..."
"David, 13, was captured by the LRA when he was 10 and held for about two years, Like other children, having killed others troubles him greatly. 'I was captured with two women. The LRA gave me a panga (large machete) and told me to kill one, or they would kill me. I beat her with it when she was on the ground. I kept cutting her and cutting her while she screamed.' He began to cry and said, 'I was always afraid they would kill me.'"
- "Deliver Us from Kony," Christianity Today, January 2006, Volume 50, Number 1
All of this, while I can get a heartpounding deal on a new mitsubishi. Or save 20-65% at Macy's Presidents' Day Sale. Or brush with Sensodyne to stop the pain of sensitive teeth.
