Lost Children

"First I stabbed her in the head, then I stabbed her in the heart, she only cried out once. My commander said: OK, she's finished, let's go," says Kilama, a boy aged 13, who spent one year in the Sudan–funded rebel band known as the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), which has been leading a guerrilla war against government forces in Uganda for the past nineteen years. Throughout this time, the LRA has been terrorising the people of Uganda, ambushing, robbing, abducting and slaughtering thousands of civilians. In all, more than 200,000 people have died as a result of the conflict. The LRA frequently abducts children as young as eight years old and turns them into soldiers. In this deeply moving and harrowing documentary, filmmakers Oliver Stoltz and Ali Samadi Ahadi follow the lives of four former child soldiers, two girls and two boys, who managed to escape from the LRA and have sought refuge in one of four reception centres for war returnees. Not only do the children's bodies bear the scars of conflict, their minds are deeply marked and traumatised by the horrors of war. They suffer from headaches and persistent nightmares. Although social workers Grace and John can do much to alleviate the children's physical and mental pain, the most difficult task is to reintegrate them back into their own communities. Paradoxically, their own families often regard them with the most suspicion, fear and contempt.

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