Uganda is a nation located in southern central Africa and is governed by Lieutenant General Yoweri Kaguta Museveni. The LRA, also known as the Lord's Resistance Army, is a rebel group active in Uganda and surrounding countries and was originally created by woman Alice Lakwena (Lakwena). The group was then known as the Holy Spirit Movement and was created primarily because Lakwena claimed to have had a dream in which the Holy Spirit told her to overthrow the Ugandan government, which was mistreating the Acholi people in Uganda at the time. The movement gained a lot of support and when the Ugandan government won a battle between the movement and Lakwena himself he was exiled. It was then that Joseph Kony (Kony), intervened saying that he was Lakwena's cousin and that he was taking over. Kony renamed the movement the LRA, but due to particularly violent tactics many people began to leave the LRA and it was rapidly losing support. This then led to the LRA starting to use child soldiers, raiding many villages and killing or maiming many people. Despite what some believe, the LRA is still a deadly group that exploits child soldier service and human trafficking and continues to threaten Uganda and its neighbors today. While some children and adults manage to escape the LRA's wrath, many are hurt, persecuted and forgotten each year by the group's tactics. Children are captured during raids on villages near the borders of Uganda, Sudan, Congo and the Central African Republic. Men are usually killed and women flee, are killed or trafficked. These raids are usually carried out by “child soldiers much younger than their victims,” where they are forced to kill possible relatives and kidnap other children. Male children who are taken are usually forced... middle of paper ... randomly decide, without any reason, to go to some villages, kill all the people and take only a few children. and waste hundreds of others. One such attack was the Amoko massacre of December 7, 1991. If you asked anyone about the Amoko massacre they would have no idea what you are talking about because the massacre was never published in any newspaper or magazine. Nekolina Lakot, who tells her experience to a young social scientist, says: "there is no one to listen to our story, it's good that you came." Victims of these attacks are usually too shocked, sad and scared to tell their stories. These attacks are recorded but only occasionally and so many occur that it is sometimes difficult to tell, for example “the Amoko massacre was one of approximately 230 unknown events and one of 5 massacres committed by the LRA that day”..”