[afro-nets] New book highlights the plight of more than a million Ugandans

[IRIN News <joanne@irinnews.org>]

New book highlights the plight of more than a million Ugandans
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Michael, aged 25, was abducted by Lord's Resistance Army rebels 
in northern Uganda. His captors beat him on the head with rifle-
butts when he was no longer able to carry their loot and left 
him for dead. Government soldiers found him a week later. "Ter-
mites had started eating me alive," he recalls. "They had begun 
building an anthill on my body."
 
Michael's is one of many personal testimonies published in "When 
the sun sets, we start to worry...", a book launched on Thursday 
by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in 
conjunction with its Integrated Regional Information Networks. 
Using personal accounts and powerful black-and-white photo-
graphs, "When the Sun Sets, We Start to Worry..." aims to draw 
attention to the plight of more than a million Ugandan children, 
women and men whose present existence encompasses a degree of 
misery and horror seldom seen elsewhere. 
 
An electronic version of the book is available as Adobe PDF file 
(70 pp. 2.3 MB) at:
http://www.irinnews.org/webspecials/NorthernUganda/Northern-Uganda.pdf