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Four Women of Gulu Town.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lord's Resistance Army.
- Violence and Repression.
- Environment and Social Issues.
- Individual and Groups Rights.
- Kidnapping.
- Disabilities.
- Poverty.
- Family.
- Daughters.
- Mothers.
- Refugee camps.
- Soldiers.
- Rebellions.
- Survivors.
- Gender-based violence.
- Gender discrimination.
- Wounds and injuries.
- Women.
- Uganda.
- Local Subjects:
- Lord's Resistance Army.
- Violence and Repression.
- Environment and Social Issues.
- Individual and Groups Rights.
- Kidnapping.
- Disabilities.
- Poverty.
- Family.
- Daughters.
- Mothers.
- Refugee camps.
- Soldiers.
- Rebellions.
- Survivors.
- Gender-based violence.
- Gender discrimination.
- Wounds and injuries.
- Women.
- Uganda.
- Genre:
- Documentary
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (54 minutes)
- Place of Publication:
- Homestead, PA : Pauline Greenlick, 2025.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- In Acholi.
- Original language in English.
- Original language in Acholi.
- System Details:
- video file
- Summary:
- Four Women of Gulu Town is a documentary film about survival, bonding and hope. Four northern Ugandan women endured horrific physical trauma and gender violence during the thirty-year Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) war led by the infamous Joseph Kony. Through their strength, bravery, determination and luck they survived to tell their story. They reveal their kidnapping by the LRA rebels and life in the filthy Internal Displaced Peoples camps (IDPC). The women, kidnapped as young as seven years old, tell how they were trained to be child soldiers and shoot an AK 47. They painstakingly shared how they were raped and forced to marry LRA commanders. Some were only fourteen years old when they gave birth scared and alone during the LRA civil war in the African bush. One of them was “married” to the infamous rebel leader, Joseph Kony. Decades later, these brave women want their stories told so this will not happen again to innocent victims. These survivors bonded together to form a women’s group, the Women’s Advocacy Network (WAN), along with 975 former kidnapped abductees. These strong women bonded together to help each other with emotional support and also formed group micro loan projects so they can be financially independent, have jobs, and support their families. Behind their smiles, laughter, and hope for a better future, the pain persists as the women, and the children they gave birth to in the bush, are still stigmatized in their villages. They are innocent victims yet their communities still consider them enemy soldiers. The women are bravely moving on and the war is long over. But behind their brave faces, they are still constantly reminded of their past with the physical pain caused by the bullets still embedded inside their bodies and the nightmares that still continually haunt them.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed June 24, 2026).
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