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Uganda’s abducted kids try to get their lives back to normal

Conflict

During Uganda’s armed conflict, tens of thousands of children were abducted by the Lord’s Resistance Army. Now they are adults, and many of them have returned. But after spending formative years in the wilderness — can they fully come back?

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