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

Terrorism in Northern Uganda and gray Sudan One boy tried to escape, provided he was caught. They made him feed in a mouthful of red pepper, and five people were beating him. His hands were tied, and then they made us, the other new captives, kill him with a stick. I felt sick. I knew this boy from before. We were from the same 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, " wherefore are you doing this?" I said I had no choice. After we killed him, they made us smear his blood on our arms. I felt dizzy. There was some other dead 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 traditional rites because I have killed. I must perform thes e rites and cleanse myself. I still inhalation 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 known atrocity. She is not talking about the holocaust, apartheid, or slavery. She is speaking about a situation going on justifiedly now in this day and age. She is telling the story of her time 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 battles in Sudan. The soldiers on the other side would be squatting, but we would stand in a straight line. The commanders were behind us. They would tell us to phlebotomize straight into gunfire. The commanders would stay behind and would beat those of us who would not run forward. You would just run 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 fighting .