Uganda: '66,000 Children Abducted By LRA'

11 February 2007

Kampala — AT least 66,000 youth are thought to have been forcibly recruited into the Lord's Resistance Army, according to the recently released World Development Report.

This is more than double the usual estimate. Unicef has always put the number of children abducted by the LRA at 25,000.

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