Not most people know that families in the third world countries suffer from sexual abuse, HIV/AIDS, alcoholism and civil wars. In Uganda, there is a war going on between the Lord's Resistance Army and the Ugandan Government. The Lord’s Resistance Army is rebellious group from Northern Uganda that started in 1987. They want to create a state based on their leader’s understanding of the Acholi religion. The Acholi religion believes that Christ will rein for one thousand years on Earth during his second coming. The “night commuters” or “night dwellers” are my main concern out of this whole war they are also known as the invisible children of Uganda. Each night, children as young as six years old walk up to 12 miles from Internally Displaced Persons camps to find shelters in towns and also to avoid kidnapping by the LRA. During the abductions the LRA would brainwash the children to joining their army. They would abuse and threat the children to fight for them. 800,000 out of the 1.8 million have returned their homes in the past two years. Some of the children who have been displaced for almost a decade and their way of living are gone. Sadly the war is still going on, with many attempts to have a peace agreement between the two. From doing a class assignment in Sociology we gain knowledge of Schwalbe’s justifications such as life can be good and equal right to a good life. The children in Uganda don’t deserve to be in this ongoing civil war. What they need is a good home, schools to learn at and a security feeling of being safe. Reading articles about the war and the invisible children made me realize that people sometimes take advantage of being in a safe environment. The people of Uganda fight to make it through the night to see another day.
I had to read a whole bunch of articles relating to the war in Uganda. It makes me furious that this war is still going on for more than 20 years and puts innocent people’s life on the line. I was also surprised that...