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Aboke girls : children abducted in northern Uganda / Els De Temmerman.
Van Pelt Library HV6250.4.G57 T46 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Temmerman, Els de, 1962-
- Standardized Title:
- Meisjes van Aboke. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Girls--Crimes against--Uganda.
- Girls.
- Abduction--Uganda.
- Abduction.
- Girls--Crimes against.
- Uganda--Politics and government.
- Uganda.
- Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 160 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Kampala, Uganda : Fountain Publishers, 2001.
- Summary:
- In October 1996, one hundred and thirty nine girls were abducted from St Mary's College, in northern Uganda. In an act of extraordinary courage, Sister Rachele, the Italian deputy headmistress, followed the abductors. Her journey took her to the Lord's Resistance Army, led by Joseph Kony, where she managed to secure the release of the majority of the girls. What happened to the remaining thirty girls and thousands of other children who have disappeared from their homes and schools in northern Uganda since the arrival of the Lord's Resistance Army? In this book journalist Els De Temmerman reconstructs the journey of two Aboke girls who managed to excape and one of the abductors, a fourteen year old boy who was part of Kony's elite troops.
- ISBN:
- 9970022563
- OCLC:
- 48085688
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