By Jeffrey Gettleman The New York Times
Published: September 14, 2006
GULU, Uganda In the beginning, it was simply called the Acholi war, and despite the brutality, few people outside Uganda paid attention.
The Lord's Resistance Army, a messianic rebel group, was exploring a new dimension of violence by building an army of abducted children and forcing them to burn down huts and slice off lips and pound newborn babies to death in wooden mortars, as though they were grinding grain.
"I killed and killed and killed," said Christopher Oyet, an 18-year-old former rebel who was kidnapped at 9. "Now, I am scared of myself."
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