Uganda: Blind Former LRA Child Soldier, Breaks Stereotypes

19 December 2016

Simon Peter Otoyo had just returned from school when the rebels of Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army arrived in his village in northern Uganda . They tied his hands behind his back and marched him, along with three of his brothers, to a rebel camp deep in the bush.

As a child soldier for the LRA , 11-year-old Simon Peter was given a gun and sent out to fight the government army.

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