UGANDA: Alice: “I saw my friend being beheaded and his body cut up”

GULU Monday, November 17, 2008 (IRIN) - Children abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) during its decades-long insurgency in the north have to live with the trauma and psychological scars long after their rescue and return to civilian life. One such is Alice*, abducted in 2005 when she was only 12. She told IRIN about her escape from rebel captivity in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo: “Rebels emerged from the bush as I was helping my mother harvest groundnuts and abducted me;...