After reading this narrative of his life, one is easily inclined to agree with his view. A similar study recently released by Amnesty International also details the LRA's abduction of up to 8,000 children over the last three years. Numerous children, ranging in age from 10 to 17, who have managed to escape from the LRA, give harrowing accounts of their captivity in the Human Rights Watch report. After being abducted in Gulu or Kitgum district, the children are made to take part in the looting and pillaging of villages, the abduction of other children and the killing of those who attempt to escape. They are then made to march for days, without adequate rest or food, carrying heavy loads of arms or looted food, to LRA camps in southern Sudan.
Many children perish in such battles.
The Scars of Death calls on the LRA and on the governments of Sudan and Uganda to do all they can to stop the abduction and killing of children. Finally, it urges the international community to raise to 18 the minimum age for recruitment of soldiers.