For the past 20 years, the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) has abducted civilians, including children and used themto increase the size and strength of the LRA ranks, and the girls used as sex slaves, and often as wives to the officers. As a result, the Ugandan government has moved the majority of the Acholi population into IDP camps. The Acholi people come from Northern Uganda, and specifically from the distircts of Kitgam, Pader, Lira and Gulu and now there are more than 1.5 million people living in the IDP (Internally Displaced Persons) camps. Thousands of people are living in each of these camps, which are designed to provide safety for the Acholi people who have lived for years with the fear of being killed, mutilated or abducted by the LRA. As a consequence, these families
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