Terrorism in Northern Uganda and Southern Sudan :: essays research papers fc

terrorism in Northern Uganda and Southern Sudan One boy tried to escape, unless he was caught. They made him eat a mouthful of red pepper, and vanadium people were beating him. His hands were tied, and then they made us, the other brisk captives, kill him with a stick. I felt sick. I knew this boy from before. We were from the uniform village. I refused to kill him and they told me they would shoot me. They pointed a gun at me, so I had to do it. The boy was asking me, "Why are you doing this?" I give tongue to I had no choice. After we killed him, they made us stigma his blood on our arms. I felt dizzy. There was another dead(a) body nearby, and I could smell the body. I felt so sick. They said we had to do this so we would not fear death and so we would not try to escape. I feel so bad about the things that I did . . . . It disturbs me so much--that I inflicted death on other people . . . . When I go home I must do some tralatitious rites because I have killed. I mu st perform these rites and cleanse myself. I still dream about the boy from my village who I killed. I see him in my dreams, and he is talking to me and saying I killed him for nothing, and I am crying. - Susan, sixteen     Susan is not speaking of a well cognise atrocity. She is not talking about the holocaust, apartheid, or slavery. She is speaking about a situation going on right now in this day and age. She is telling the story of her succession with the Lords Resistance Army, a terrorist group operating in Northern Uganda and Southern Sudan.      Timothy tells of his time as well I was good at shooting. I went for several(prenominal) battles in Sudan. The soldiers on the other side would be squatting, but we would infrastructure in a straight line. The commanders were behind us. They would tell us to carry straight into gunfire. The commanders would stay behind and would beat those of us who would not engage forward. You would just r un forward shooting your gun. I dont know if I actually killed any people, because you really cant tell if youre shooting people or not. I might have killed people in the course of the bit .