Child to Soldier

Stories from Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army

Autor: Opiyo Oloya

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Oprawa: Miękka

Wydawca: University Of Toronto Press

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What happens when children are forced to become child soldiers? How are they transformed from childr...

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Autor

Opiyo Oloya

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Miękka

Data wydania

2013

strony

240

EAN

9781442614178

ISBN

144261417X

Enbook ID

04797344

Wydawca

University Of Toronto Press

Waga

374

Wymiary

156 x 229 x 15

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What happens when children are forced to become child soldiers? How are they transformed from children to combatants? In Child to Soldier, Opiyo Oloya addresses these timely, troubling questions by exploring how Acholi children in Northern Uganda, abducted by infamous warlord Joseph Kony and his Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), become soldiers.Oloya -- himself an Acholi, a refugee from Idi Amin's rule of Uganda, and a high ranking figure in Canadian education -- is a scholar who challenges conventional thinking on child-inducted soldiers by illustrating the familial loyalty that develops within a child's new surroundings in the bush. Based on interviews with former child combatants, this book provides a cultural context for understanding the process of socializing children into violence. Oloya details how Kony and the LRA exploit and pervert Acholi cultural heritage and pride to control and direct the children in war.Child to Soldier is also ground-breaking in its emphasis on the tragic fact that child-inducted soldiers do not remain children forever, but become adults who remain sharply scarred by their introduction into combat at a young age. Given the constant struggle in courts in deciding whether former child-inducted soldiers should be pardoned or prosecuted for their activities and conduct, Oloya's eye-opening book will have a major impact.

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