In northern Uganda, more than 50,000 people were recruited by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) between the late 1980s and 2004, mostly by force. Around half of those taken were children (under 18 years old). A large number were never seen by their families again, but more than 20,000 returned through aid-financed reception centres. Endeavours were made to reunite them with their relatives, who were mostly living in insecure displacement camps. Relatively few were subsequently visited, even after the fighting ended in 2006. Thousands of vulnerable children were largely left to their own devices. This article draws on research carried out in 2004–06 and from 2012 to 2018, and compares findings with other publications on reintegration in the region. It argues that implementing best-practice guidelines for relocating displaced children with their immediate relatives had negative consequences. The majority of children who passed through a reception centre are now settled as young adults on ancestral land, where they are commonly abused because of their LRA past. With few exceptions, it is only those who spent a long period with the LRA and who are not living on ancestral land who have managed to avoid such experiences.

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从乌干达的主抵抗军返回的孩子怎么了？

在乌干达北部，1980年代末至2004年间，上帝抵抗军（LRA）招募了50,000多人，其中大多数是用武力招募的。被捕者中约有一半是儿童（18岁以下）。他们的家人再也没有见过大批人，但有2万多人通过有资助的接待中心返回。努力使他们与他们的亲戚团聚，他们的亲戚大多生活在不安全的流离失所者营地中。甚至在2006年战斗结束之后，随后访问的人很少。成千上万的弱势儿童基本上留给了他们自己的装置。本文借鉴了2004-06年以及2012年至2018年进行的研究，并将研究结果与该地区有关重返社会的其他出版物进行了比较。它认为，实施最佳实践准则来安置流离失所儿童及其直系亲属会产生负面影响。现在，经过接待中心的大多数儿童都定居为年轻人，居住在祖先的土地上，由于过去的上帝抵抗军，他们经常受到虐待。除了少数例外，只有那些在上帝抵抗军度过了很长时间并且没有生活在祖传土地上的人才设法避免了这种经历。