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First Kill Your Family: Child Soldiers of Uganda and the Lord's Resistance Army
by Eichstaedt, Peter H. | PB | Good
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- Condition
- Good
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- Binding
- Paperback
- Weight
- 1 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
- No
- ISBN
- 9781613748091
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
1613748094
ISBN-13
9781613748091
eBay Product ID (ePID)
144000442
Product Key Features
Book Title
First Kill Your Family : Child Soldiers of Uganda and the Lord's Resistance Army
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Children's Studies, Human Rights, Africa / Central
Publication Year
2013
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Political Science, Social Science, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
16 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2012-038098
Reviews
"Heartfelt . . . A close analysis of [an] underreported crisis." -- Publishers Weekly "In-depth reporting . . . an intimate spin." -- Kirkus Reviews "You must read this powerful book. Peter Eichstaedt has given voice to the victims of the largely unheard-of tragedy of Uganda. This story calls out to our very humanity." --Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu "A book filled with haunting images that leave one groping for answers." --Mac Maharaj, South African author and activist "This book is a call to action to help our brothers and sisters in Africa that we can no longer ignore." --John Dau, president, John Dau Sudan Foundation, and coauthor, God Grew Tired of Us: A Memoir "This fine firsthand account should be read by anyone seeking to grapple with the challenges of war and peace in coming decades." --Douglas Farah, author, Merchant of Death and Blood from Stones, "A book filled with haunting images that leave one groping for answers." --Mac Maharaj, South African author and activist, "This book is a call to action to help our brothers and sisters in Africa that we can no longer ignore." -- John Dau, president, John Dau Sudan Foundation & co-author, God Grew Tired of Us: A Memoir, "You must read this powerful book. Peter Eichstaedt has given voice to the victims of the largely unheard-of tragedy of Uganda. This story calls out to our very humanity." -Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, "You must read this powerful book. Peter Eichstaedt has given voice to the victims of the largely unheard-of tragedy of Uganda. This story calls out to our very humanity." --Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, "You must read this powerful book. Peter Eichstaedt has given voice to the victims of the largely unheard-of tragedy of Uganda. This story calls out to our very humanity." —Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, "This fine firsthand account should be read by anyone seeking to grapple with the challenges of war and peace in coming decades." —Douglas Farah, author, Merchant of Death and Blood from Stones, "A book filled with haunting images that leave one groping for answers." —Mac Maharaj, South African author and activist, "A book filled with haunting images that leave one groping for answers." -- Mac Maharaj, South African author & activist, "This fine firsthand account should be read by anyone seeking to grapple with the challenges of war and peace in coming decades." -Douglas Farah, author, Merchant of Death and Blood from Stones, "This book is a call to action to help our brothers and sisters in Africa that we can no longer ignore." --John Dau, president, John Dau Sudan Foundation, and coauthor, God Grew Tired of Us: A Memoir, "This book is a call to action to help our brothers and sisters in Africa that we can no longer ignore." —John Dau, president, John Dau Sudan Foundation, and coauthor, God Grew Tired of Us: A Memoir, "This fine first-hand account should be read by anyone seeking to grapple with the challenges of war and peace in coming decades." -- Douglas Farah, author, Merchant of Death & Blood from Stones, "A book filled with haunting images that leave one groping for answers." -Mac Maharaj, South African author and activist, "This book is a call to action to help our brothers and sisters in Africa that we can no longer ignore." -John Dau, president, John Dau Sudan Foundation, and coauthor, God Grew Tired of Us: A Memoir, "This fine firsthand account should be read by anyone seeking to grapple with the challenges of war and peace in coming decades." --Douglas Farah, author, Merchant of Death and Blood from Stones
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
303.6/4083096761
Synopsis
"Richard Opio has neither the look of a cold-blooded killer nor the heart of one. Yet as his mother and father lay on the ground with their hands tied, Richard used the blunt end of an ax to crush their skulls. He was ordered to do this by a unit commander of the Lord's Resistance Army, a rebel group that has terrorized northern Uganda for twenty years. The memory racks Richard's slender body as he wipes away tears." For more than twenty years, beginning in the mid-1980s, the Lord's Resistance Army has ravaged northern Uganda. Tens of thousands have been slaughtered, and thousands more mutilated and traumatized. At least 1.5 million people have been driven from a pastoral existence into the squalor of refugee camps. The leader of the rebel army is the rarely seen Joseph Kony, a former witchdoctor and self-professed spirit medium who continues to evade justice and wield power from somewhere near the Congo~Sudan border. Kony claims he not only can predict the future but also can control the minds of his fighters. And control them he does: the Lord's Resistance Army consists of children who are abducted from their homes under cover of night. As initiation, the boys are forced to commit atrocities--murdering their parents, friends, and relatives--and the kidnapped girls are forced into lives of sexual slavery and labor. In First Kill Your Family, veteran journalist Peter Eichstaedt goes into the war-torn villages and refugee camps, talking to former child soldiers, child "brides," and other victims. He examines the cultlike convictions of the army; how a pervasive belief in witchcraft, the spirit world, and the supernatural gave rise to this and other deadly movements; and what the global community can do to bring peace and justice to the region. This insightful analysis delves into the war's foundations and argues that, much like Rwanda's genocide, international intervention is needed to stop Africa's virulent cycle of violence., "Richard Opio has neither the look of a cold-blooded killer nor the heart of one. Yet as his mother and father lay on the ground with their hands tied, Richard used the blunt end of an ax to crush their skulls. He was ordered to do this by a unit commander of the Lord's Resistance Army, a rebel group that has terrorized northern Uganda for twenty years. The memory racks Richard's slender body as he wipes away tears." For more than twenty years, beginning in the mid-1980s, the Lord's Resistance Army has ravaged northern Uganda. Tens of thousands have been slaughtered, and thousands more mutilated and traumatized. At least 1.5 million people have been driven from a pastoral existence into the squalor of refugee camps. The leader of the rebel army is the rarely seen Joseph Kony, a former witchdoctor and self-professed spirit medium who continues to evade justice and wield power from somewhere near the Congo Sudan border. Kony claims he not only can predict the future but also can control the minds of his fighters. And control them he does: the Lord's Resistance Army consists of children who are abducted from their homes under cover of night. As initiation, the boys are forced to commit atrocities--murdering their parents, friends, and relatives--and the kidnapped girls are forced into lives of sexual slavery and labor. In First Kill Your Family, veteran journalist Peter Eichstaedt goes into the war-torn villages and refugee camps, talking to former child soldiers, child "brides," and other victims. He examines the cultlike convictions of the army; how a pervasive belief in witchcraft, the spirit world, and the supernatural gave rise to this and other deadly movements; and what the global community can do to bring peace and justice to the region. This insightful analysis delves into the war's foundations and argues that, much like Rwanda's genocide, international intervention is needed to stop Africa's virulent cycle of violence.
LC Classification Number
HQ784.W3E33 2013
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