Image:Children of Peace Uganda
Imaginative play is an everyday experience for most children across the world. I remember making pirate ships of fallen gums and playing beaver’swimming through the misty quagmire of the neighbouring farmer’s vat of soya beans.
But these are not the childhood memories of thousands of children abducted and forced to fight in wars. Imagine your child being abducted and forced to fight a war they have no reason to fight. Imagine your eight year-old daughter being given as a ‘wife’ to a military commander.[1] Imagine your child being captured trying to escape, and other children are forced to kill them to set an example.[2] Imagine your child trying to re-enter society after years of intimidation and violence.
