Jungle Horror: A Survivor Of Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army Tells His Story -- FOX News
Ocitti "David" Okech was just 17 when rebels invaded his tiny village in northern Uganda, beating his father to death as he watched, taking away the rest of his family and forcing him to become one of thousands of soldiers in the army of wanted warlord Joseph Kony.
It was 2003, and Okech still vividly recalls his involuntary induction into a world of unfathomable brutality, back-breaking labor and hopeless misery. Rebels serving in Kony's Lord's Resistance Army, a violent cult that mixes a warped Christian fundamentalism with African mysticism and violence, swarmed the rural village of Pabbo. They rounded up the young -- some no more than 10 years old -- and started to break them down.
“They asked me what I valued most,” Okech told FoxNews.com. "They then killed him in front of me.”
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My Comment: His story of survival is truly remarkable.
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