Based on analysis of newspapers and secondary sources, this article examines the gendered construction of the national imagery of the war between the Ugandan government and the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in an effort to expand current conceptual understanding of the exclusion experienced by children born of forced marriage inside the LRA. Uganda developed as a militarised and masculine post-colony and yet nation-building for President Museveni involved crafting a national imagery that drew upon development discourses of gender and children to position himself as the benevolent father of the nation. Invoking Veena Das’ ‘figure of the abducted woman’, I argue that the Ugandan government mobilised the figure of the abducted Acholi girl to legitimise both its governance and the war. The article concludes that the resulting narrative provided no legitimate social or political space in the national imagery for the children of the abducted girls.

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被绑架的阿乔利女孩的形象：国家建设、性别和出生于乌干达上帝军的孩子

本文基于对报纸和二手资料的分析，考察了乌干达政府与上帝抵抗军 (LRA) 之间战争的国家形象的性别建构，以扩大当前对出生于以下国家的儿童所经历的排斥的概念理解。 LRA 内部的强迫婚姻。乌干达发展成为一个军事化和男性化的后殖民地，但对于穆塞韦尼总统来说，国家建设涉及制定一个国家形象，利用性别和儿童的发展话语将自己定位为国家的仁慈之父。援引 Veena Das 的“被绑架妇女的形象”，我认为乌干达政府动员了被绑架的阿乔利女孩的形象，以使其治理和战争合法化。