Aboke Girls. Children Abducted in Northern Uganda

Aboke Girls. Children Abducted in Northern Uganda by Temmerman, Els de. Paperback edition. ISBN: 9789970022564.

In October 1996, one hundred and thirty nine girls were abducted from St Marys College, in northern Uganda. In an act of extraordinary courage, Sister Rachele, the Italian deputy headmistress, followed the abductors. Her journey took her to the Lords Resistance Army, led by Joseph Kony, where she managed to secure the release of the majority of the girls. What happened to the remaining thirty girls and thousands of other children who have disappeared from their homes and schools in northern Uganda since the arrival of the Lords Resistance Army? In this book journalist Els De Temmerman reconstructs the journey of two Aboke girls who managed to excape and one of the abductors, a fourteen year old boy who was part of Konys elite troops.