Some of the biggest victims of Liberia's 14-year civil war were young women who were taken prisoner and forced to fight, or made into sex slaves. Many of them are now struggling to recover and struggling to forget.
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April 16, 2009
Former child soldiers, sex slaves recover from Liberia’s war
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January 27, 2009
Rebels return to Uganda to beg forgiveness
Uganda's anti-government rebel group, the Lord's Resistance Army, became notorious for kidnapping children and forcing them to take up their cause. Now, years later, some of those former rebels have returned home to their villages in Uganda, searching for redemption.
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November 7, 2008
Congo’s women mutilated, children sent into battle
John Prendergast of the ENOUGH project discusses the use of rape as a weapon in eastern Congo as well as prospects for the UN in the region.
