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Abducted in the middle of the night, awakened out of a deep sleep to the cold metal of a machine gun to his temple.
“Cry, and we’ll kill you.
Try to escape, and we’ll kill your brother while you watch.”
They are forced to massacre their own families. They are forced to perform unthinkable mutilations. They are forced to become pawns of hell’s own strategy.
And they are 8, 10, 12 years old…
They are the children who remain invisible because no records are kept of their age or their names…
…because they vanish without a trace…
…because their own armies deny their existence.
Northern Uganda has been “terrorized for almost 20 years from the late eighties, killing and maiming more than 10,000 people, abducting 20,000 children to use as soldiers and sex slaves, and forcing at least 2 million civilians to live in camps.”
And today, on March 11th, 2009, it is still happening.
Between September and December 2008, it is estimated that the LRA killed 800 people and abducted 500 children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
“A genocide of mass proportion, and with no end in sight, is continuing on today throughout all of central Africa. But in its midst, a voice of awareness and activation is resounding. This is what living out Kingdom is all about — actively getting our hands dirty in what is going on in this world today and choosing to play a part in seeing real change come to manifest.” –C. Crawford
Click here to watch the video that is giving a voice to the invisible children who are
unnumbered,
unknown,
and unseen.
* Below is an excerpt from the film. The above image is from invisiblechildren.com.
