Child to Soldier: Stories from Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army

by Opiyo Oloya

  6 The camps mostly disappeared after May 2008, when many of their inhabitants began to return to their former villages. Yet today, with peace and security now firmly in place, returnees continue to struggle to re-establish themselves after so many years away.

  7 See an account of this war in Behrend (1999).

  8 See Liu Institute for Global Studies (2005), Roco wat i Acoli, for a complete list of other rituals used for reconciling and cleansing returning former child combatants.

  9 Statement by the ICC Chief Prosecutor on the Uganda Arrest Warrants, The Hague, 14 October 2005.

  10 ICC document no. ICC-02/04-01/05, 22 March 2007.

  11 BBC World News, 23 January 2008. Retrieved on 31 December 2009 from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7204278.stm.

  12 Roco wat i Acoli gives comprehensive detail on the succession and selection of Paramount Chief Rwot David Onen Acana II.

  13 I was chosen as a delegate to the conference from the Acholi diaspora and was one of a half a dozen people given the task of drafting the final resolutions, which I then read out in front of Paramount Chief David Onen Acana II, Riek Machar, vice-president of the government of South Sudan, and assembled delegates at the Juba Raha Hotel.

  Also, see Justice and Peace Commission of the Diocese of Gulu (2007), ‘What Acholi Juba meeting would have focused on,’ Justice and Peace News, 7, no. 21 (2007): 5–8.

  14 The BBC interview with UN Under-Secretary for Humanitarian Affairs Jan Egeland appeared on the BBC website on 10 November 2003. Retrieved on 31 December 2009 from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3256929.stm.

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