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=Human Rights in Uganda =



= = Human Right Violation #1

The Lord's Resistance Army has forced an estimated 20,000 children into their army to use in their attacks on Northern Uganda. We saw an example of this with Dominic, a young boy living in Northern Uganda, in War Dance. Dominic was kidnapped and forced to join the LRA army when he was 9. During his time in the LRA, he was forced to kill two people using a garden rake. Forcing children into army servitude violates article 4 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that states, "No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms."