91040_EXP_ student5_001
Student 5: Low Achieved
(extracts from two sources of gathered information)
Focus: (1)
This research is about child soldiers. In Uganda, there are at least 30,000 children who have been
abducted in the past 20 years.
Inquiry questions: (2)
1. What is the history of Uganda that has given rise to child soldiers?
2. What is the life of a child soldier like?
3. What individuals or groups have helped child soldiers in trying to gain their human rights?
References (6)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/08/joseph-kony-child-soldiers. Retrieved 4th May 2011
http://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/youth-lost-ugandan-child-soldiers-in-the-lord%E2%80%99sth
resistance-army. Retrieved 5 May 2011
http://www.child-soldiers.org/get_involved.php. Retrieved 4th May 2011
http://www.child-soldiers.org/our_work.php. Retrieved 4th May 2011
Beah, Ishmael (2007). A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier. Sarah Crichton Books
Primary or secondary information
Child Soldiers International works to prevent the military recruitment of children and their
involvement in armed conflict through a combination of targeted country work, thematic research
and global monitoring.Our research and advocacy on selected countries is aimed at: ending
recruitment of children and their use by state armed forces and non-state armed groups
operating there; strengthening accountability frameworks; and ensuring the release and
reintegration of girls and boys associated with fighting forces. Where possible we work in
partnership with local NGOs in target countries to design and implement projects. We seek to
engage governments in a dialogue in these countries, and conduct international advocacy to
bring about change. We encourage debate on psychosocial issues in the area of children and
armed conflict by fostering dialogue between experts. Our psychosocial page is a showcase for
up to date perspectives on a number of relevant themes. (5)
Kony 2012 (officially KONY 2012 or Kony2012) is a short film produced by Invisible Children,
Inc. (authors of Invisible Children). It was released on March 5, 2012.[2][3][4][5] The film's purpose
was to promote the charity's "Stop Kony" movement to make African cult and militia leader,
indicted war criminal and the International Criminal Court fugitive Joseph Kony globally known
in order to have him arrested by the end of 2012. (5)
Referencehttp://www.child-soldiers.org/get_involved.php Date of retrieval 04/04/13 (3)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kony_2012
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4MnpzG5Sqc&safe=active
Explanation of relevance
The information is about child soldiers international and what they do to help child soldiers. This
will help me with question three because it is about this group that have helped child soldiers in
trying to gain their human rights. (5)
It is also about Kony 2012 a video by Invisible Children to stop Kony from taking more children in
Uganda.
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URL and date of retrieval included.
Backed up by information on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_Soldiers_International Retrieved
03/04/13 (3)]
Primary or secondary information
Former Kony Child Soldier Tells Her Story (4)
Grace Akallo was one of the abducted children of Joseph Kony. Before she was abducted, Akallo
lived in a sleepaway Catholic finishing school in Uganda. And students there were often told to
run and hide outside because there was word that Kony and his soldiers might be coming for
them.“I don’t even know how to speak about it. It was horrible. What they did to us is what should
never be done to any human being.” “It was very scary. [A head sister at the school] would come
in and say, ‘Girls, we have to run right now. We have to go hide because it’s not safe. There’s
rumors that the Lord’s Resistance Army are coming this way,” she said.
And in 1996, the LRA did come and take 15-year-old Akallo away. “I don’t even know how to
speak about it. It was horrible. What they did to us is what should never be done to any human
being,” she said. Grace was forced to march through the bush and jungle hungry and thirsty,
brutally beaten and forced to beat others, including children. Akallo says the girls she was with
were so young and innocent, they did not have language for what was happening to them. When
the girls were forced to have sex with soldiers, for example, they only had the expression,
“become wives” to describe it. And Joseph Kony also used psychological techniques to control
the children, telling them that he knew their thoughts and could tell when they were considering
escaping. “I tried to stop thinking. I’m scared he’s going to get me. And it’s not a joke — they
bring people and they kill them in front of you and they say they were thinking of escape,” Akallo
said.
“Children make very easy targets for military recruiters — they’re easy to manipulate, less likely to
question what they’re told,” Jo Becker of Human Rights Watch said. (4)
Akallo eventually escaped after LRA soldiers mistook her for dead and buried her in a shallow
grave after she passed out during a battle.
Reference
http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2012/04/19/kony-child-soldier (3)
Explanation of relevance
It helps me answer the question 2 because it is about child soldiers. It talks about an ex - child
soldier and what life was like for them once they were abducted by Kony. (4) It also talks about
why child soldiers are recruited from another person.
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URL and date of retrieval included.(3)