Sunday, October 16, 2011
Why Is Obama Sending Troops to Africa?
Max Fisher, The AtlanticWhen the Lord's Resistance Army showed up in the Central African Republican village of Obo in 2008, everyone who refused to join them was killed. One of the men they scooped up, Daba Emmanuel, would spend the next year as one of the LRA's slave-soldiers. Indoctrinated, abused, and eventually forced to perform raids like the one against Obo, he survived to tell journalist Graeme Wood his story. "We killed the old immediately, and kept the young for work," Emmanuel said. Recalling one raid on a village in the Democratic Republic of Congo, he told Wood that his small LRA...
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