Inter Press Service
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Africa, Armed Conflicts, Civil Society, Headlines, Human Rights, Humanitarian Emergencies, Peace, TerraViva Europe, TerraViva United Nations, United Nations, World - In 2003, Moses Otiti, a 15-year-old from Uganda, was walking in a group with his father when members of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) ambushed them. Because he was a child, Moses was the only one to survive. For the next 12 months, he was forced to serve the LRA as a soldier in the rebel group's war against the Ugandan government. "In the first month when I joined [the LRA], I was not comfortable with the things that were going on, but then I reached a situation where everything became almost normal."