Tags: war

Dinah's Story

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Storyteller: Dinah

Dinah, a 14-year-old girl from Uganda, tells her story of being abducted by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) at age 9 and forced to become a child soldier.  They abuse or threaten to kill her if she tries to escape or refuses to follow their orders, which sometimes included killing and torturing people.  After a year living in the bush, she becomes convinced that her family is dead but eventually escapes to another camp that reunites her with the family.  After years of being haunted by memories and nightmares of her experiences, she has finally been able to stop thinking about these expe

Topics: Violence | Youth
Language: English

Complicated Kosovo

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Storyteller: Tess Davis

Reflections from a trip to Kosovo in May 2007. 

Tags: war | Kosovo
Language: English

War Tears

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Storyteller: Rama Thapa

The anguish of civil war and its impact on women in Nepal are the focus of this story, which was created in a CDS special hands-on workshop for Asian-Pacific Islander survivors of violence. Rama traces the journey of one young widow from a place of isolation and despair over her status and the stigma attached to it, to one of hope and commitment to end discrimination against other women in her situation.

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