When George Omona first saw soldiers in the infamous Lord’s Resistance Army, he was amazed. The scary fighters who had terrorised people for decades across a big chunk of Africa turned out to be emaciated teenagers with dirty clothes who could hardly hold the big guns they carried. Some were unarmed children, barely ten years old.
Ian Birrell
A truly monstrous regiment
One bright boy’s descent into savagery, serving in Joseph Kony’s notorious Lord’s Resistance Army, makes for a horrifying story, brilliantly told by Ledio Cakaj
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