O Missionário que luta pelas Crianças da África Oriental
Milhares de crianças foram vítimas de um dos grupos mais Brutais e terroristas em todo o mundo, conhecido como o "Exército de Resistência do Senhor" (LRA) |
Sam Childers nascido e criado na Pennsylvania, é um motard ex-toxicodependente que agora dedica a sua vida e os seus recursos para resgatar as crianças na zona de guerra no Sul do Sudão.
Childers e sua esposa Lynn fundaram a instituição “Anjos da África Oriental”, o Orfanato Aldeia das Crianças em Nimule no Sudão, onde atualmente têm mais de 300 crianças a seu cargo.
By Keith Morrison and Tim Sandler
This report aired Aug. 22, 2005, and recently won an Emmy for 'Best Report in a News Magazine.'
"Dateline" traveled to Northern Uganda to report on "night commuters": tens of thousands of children forced to hide in the night to escape being killed or abducted by rebels. If captured by the rebels, these children of war are torn from their families and forced to become soldiers under the maniacal leadership of Joseph Kony. Who is he? And why is his reign of terror unknown to most people in the world?
Around northern Uganda, little children who don’t find a safe place at night are in danger. And so are adults. People who are found by the rebels can be burnt to death, or beyond recognition. Body parts are cut off — noses, lips, ears, fingers.
Jan Egeland is the United Nation’s head of disaster relief. He’s seen it all. But nothing like this. "His is terror like no other terror," he says. “I’ve been in a hundred countries. I’ve been working with human rights, peace, and humanitarian problems for 25 years. I was shocked to my bones, seeing what happened in Uganda. For me, this is one of the biggest scandals of our time and generation.”
The root of this trauma is a civil war that has raged for 19 years in northern Uganda, almost unnoticed by the rest of the world.
What makes this stand out from other wars is that it is being fought with children. Children stolen from their families are forced to become soldiers. At the age of 8, or 10 or 12, children forced to kill.