
Uganda’s Silent War
Northern Uganda's civil war runs on a tactic: rebel forces abduct children in the night and force them to become fighters or forced "wives." This report examines what happens when the International Criminal Court issues arrest warrants against Lord's Resistance Army commanders in the middle of an active peace process, a legal intervention meant to deliver justice that some negotiators worry will instead collapse the talks and prolong the abductions. The film follows the mechanics of that conflict: boys as young as seven taken from their homes and turned into combatants, girls raped and held as servants, and the survivors who make it out carrying trauma, guilt, and in many cases HIV risk. Rather than treating the ICC warrants as an abstract legal question, the report ties them directly to the war's daily toll, asking whether international justice and a negotiated end to the violence can actually coexist. It won the 2008 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for this reporting.