Book description
China's story of her life as a child conscript in the Ugandan
National Resistance Army starts at age 8 and continues for ten years
of terror, humiliation and sexual
assault. After rejoining the
army years later she serves as bodyguard to the Minister for Records
who is disgraced and China is then captured by the Ugandan secret
service and is tortured for six months. It is a story from the horrors
of the Ugandan civil war, one of Africa's bloodiest and
longest-running conflicts, which has gone on for over 40 years and
where children are abducted and forced to commit atrocities regularly
(as many as 8,000 per year). China's story exposes the reality of
their civil war and the terrors committed and endured by children.
China Keitetsi was kidnapped by Uganda's Resistance Army when she was
eight years old. She served as a soldier for ten years, one of the child
army used for cannon-fodder, enduring the terrors of war and inhuman
treatment from her superiors. Aged 23 she escaped Uganda and helped by
the United Nations she travelled to Denmark where she currently lives
and works as a campaigner for the rights of child soldiers around the
world.
