One of the many boys who fight in the Lord's Resistance Army protects their leader Joseph Kony, July 31, 2006 in South Sudan. Photo by Adam Pletts/Getty Images
Anne, 18, was kidnapped by the LRA when she was nine years old. She was forced to be a soldier and sex slave. Photo by Alvaro Ybarra Zavala/Edit by Getty Images
14-year-old Edgar was abducted by rebels when he was 10 years old. He became a killing machine and did terrible things. Together with the LRA, he attacked his own village several times. Photo by Alvaro Ybarra Zavala/Edit by Getty Images
Children from the LRA murdered and raped in the same way as adults. Some attacks were carried out exclusively by minors and it was they who kidnapped the next 'recruits'. Photo by Adam Pletts/Getty Images
Even children as young as a few years old were abducted and taught to murder, mutilate... Those who disobeyed were tortured. Children, who were victims themselves, very quickly turned into executioners. Photo: Sam Farmar/Getty Images
How many children were abducted? It is estimated that there may have been between 60,000 and 100,000. Photo by Alvaro Ybarra Zavala/Edit by Getty Images
The International Criminal Court in The Hague (ICC) has ruled that the circumstances under which LRA rebels became combatants are not a mitigating circumstance for their subsequent acts. It sentenced Dominic Ongwen, a former boy soldier turned rebel commander, to 25 years in prison for war crimes and crimes against humanity, 6 May 2021. Photo ICC/ Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images