The LRA...

is pretty big in the news right now; President Museveni is offering amnesty to the leaders. Peace talks start this week, I think. Please pray that they go well! The LRA has been wreaking havoc in northern Uganda for many years - perhaps this could be the beginning of the end.

I just read a story online in the New Vision, one of Uganda's main newspapers. It's about one of the wives of the rebel leader, speaking about her 11 years in captivity. I expected it to be like other stories I've read, where woman who have escaped speak out against what was done to them. The chilling thing about this story is that the young woman sticks up for her captor. She didn't even know about the things the LRA was doing until she came back to Uganda. He might have been good to her as she says (although does beating someone for letting another wife's babies cry sound good?), but on his authority thousands of children have been kidnapped and forced to kill even their own family members. It shows why the LRA has managed to stick around so long, though; fear and power speak to people in a scary way.