The International Criminal Court is set to start Joseph Kony's trial this year. An arrest warrant was issued 20 years ago but the alleged leader of the Lord's Resistance Army remains at large. Joseph ...
"General Dragon Master" was a high-ranking member of a brutal rebel force who lied to enter the United States and later ...
Rebel forces also recruited child soldiers in their effort to oust the existing government. In northern Uganda, the abduction of children by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) continued unabated ...
Theresa Betancourt has studied Sierra Leone’s former child soldiers. Her new book Shadows into Light tells their stories.
A former Ugandan child solider who became a commander in a notorious rebel group has been jailed ... abducting thousands of children to use as soldiers or sex slaves, and for mutilating civilians.
Government and rebel forces in South Sudan stand accused of recruiting and using child soldiers in combat, despite renewed promises from both sides. Human Rights Watch says that children as young ...
A former Liberian rebel commander known as "Dragon Master" has pleaded guilty to US immigration fraud for lying about his ...
A court in Finland has acquitted a rebel commander of rape, ritual murder and the recruitment of child soldiers during Liberia's civil war. The court said there was not enough proof to convict ...