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Witness History: Rehabilitating Kony's child soldiers in Uganda

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Rehabilitating Kony's child soldiers in Uganda

07/03/2024 GMT

BBC World Service - Witness History, Rehabilitating Kony's child soldiers in Uganda

In 2002, a nun was sent to northern Uganda to help those suffering from a bloody conflict

In the 1980s, Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army began attacking Ugandans. Thousands were killed and displaced. Children were forced to become soldiers and commit terrible acts.

In 2002, a Catholic nun arrived in Gulu, a town in northern Uganda, to help set up a sewing school for locals.  

For years, the town had been the target of brutal attacks by the Lord's Resistance Army, led by the warlord Joseph Kony.   

The rebel group was known for kidnapping children and forcing them into becoming soldiers.  

As the LRA was being chased out of Uganda, those who were captured arrived at the school seeking refuge.   

Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe shares the shocking stories of those who escaped captivity with George Crafer.

(Photo: Sister Rosemary at St Monica's. Credit: Sewing Hope Foundation)

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