Boy soldier : a memoir of innocence lost and humanity regained in northern Uganda / Norman Okello and Theo Hollander.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Okello, Norman, author.

Hollander, Theo, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lord's Resistance Army.

Child soldiers--Uganda--Biography.

Child soldiers.

Children and war--Uganda.

Children and war.

Social conditions.

Okello, Norman.

Lord's Resistance Army--History.

History.

Uganda--Social conditions--1979-.

Uganda.

Genre:

Autobiographies.

Biographies.

History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 432 pages : maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Unbound, 2021.

Summary:

"Uganda's civil war with Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army has raged since the early 1990s, claiming over 100,000 lives and displacing around 1.5 million people. The LRA are a rebel force who combine religious mysticism with extreme brutality, infamous for abducting tens of thousands of children for use as soldiers and forcing them to commit unspeakable violence. Their insurgency continues to this day, though most of us know little about it. Boy Soldier tells the story of one of the children who fell victim to this forgotten war. After an idyllic childhood, Norman Okello was abducted by the LRA at the age of twelve. In captivity, he was subjected to a ruthless training regime aimed at turning him into a killing machine free from conscience and fear. Norman's struggled constantly to stay alive while maintaining his humanity, and he eventually managed to escape his ordeal. But having fled the clutches of the LRA, he was faced with the task of trying to reintegrate into a society that feared and despised him. Harrowing, inspiring and enlightening in equal measure, Boy Soldier is above all a story of survival and redemption against unbelievable odds." -- Amazon.com.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I A First Encounter

A Bitter Start

The End of Happiness

Writing My Name

pt. II Becoming a Soldier

Death March

Palutaka

My Life as a Soldier

pt. III Losing My Humanity

The Person I Feared Becoming

The Attack on Palutaka

The Deserts of Sudan

pt. IV The Birth of a Monster

Exorcism of the Civilian Mind

The Birth of a Monster

Invoking the Spirit of Vengeance

The Girls of Aboke

The Kitgum Massacres

pt. V The Life After

Escape

A Prisoner Again

Still Trapped in the War

The Return of Happiness

On the Fates of the People in this Book

Uganda: A History of Cyclical Violence

War in Northern Uganda and the Genesis of the Lord's Resistance Army

On Peace and Unending War.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781783528110

1783528117

OCLC:

1222803624

Publisher Number:

99988069983