Video of Cwero camp in Gulu, Northern Uganda, where people are living in small huts, VS INTs and EXTs / The guide explains the problems that plague these villages / VS people go into bush and find and retrieve body of victim killed by the military / Video continues at the Worldvision camp, at which children receive trauma counseling and other rehabilitation services. There is footage of the camp, and interviews with several former child soldiers [no English translation]. Footage shows life at the camp, including tent dormitories, children ironing and sitting around, buildings, gardens, people going through piles of clothes and trying on, etc.

Part 1 of video portrays the life in a Ugandan refugee camp run by World Vision International, which works to rehabilitate and counsel former child soldiers and others traumatized by the war.

Part 2 features interviews at the Gulu Save the Children Organization (GUSCO) with Sister Rachele Fassera, director of St. Mary's College, a boarding school in Uganda from which students were abducted by Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) forces. She describes the abduction in great and emotional detail. Also interviewed are parents whose children have been abducted by the rebels, including Angelina Atyam, whose daughter Charlotte was one of the abducted girls. With English translations.

This video features Ugandan land mine survivors at Gulu Hospital in Uganda, including sign outside hospital, interior interviews and some b-roll of prosthetics, exteriors with interviews, b-roll of survivors on crutches, with prosthetics, missing limbs / Ext of thatched hut, Intl hut with many young students singing and clapping / Ext refugee camp include thatched huts, land mine victims sitting outside, other refugees, a few good shots of children happily running toward camera / [shot through front windshield of car & time-stamped] crowds of people walking on either side of moving car along dirt road / footage at Kitgum is well-shot but time stamped, includes a ruined burned-out building with children playing, people cooking, thatched huts, children, daily life. The interviews are generally in Acholi. There are some sound problems (wind) and lighting is not ideal in places.

"Protected" camps or villages were set up in Northern Uganda by the government near Ugandan army installations, in order to decrease the vulnerability of civilians living in isolated rural areas to attacks and abductions by the Lord's resistance Army. Tens of thousands of displaced people have fled the countryside and set up temporary homes in the camps, but crowded conditions and lack of food and sanitation facilities have rendered the population vulnerable to death from malnutrition and disease. The residents remain vulnerable to attacks by the LRA.

This footage explores the plight of former child soldiers forced to participate in the Rwandan genocide of 1994. It includes the second half of an interview with Casimir Karasira, the director of the Gitagata Re-education Center, a prison alternative for children who were arrested for crimes of genocide. (This project was funded by UNICEF) He describes the methods employed by the center to rehabilitate the children. Some footage of life at the center follows, including two interviews with children who reside at the center.

Footage of the Gikondo Prison in Kigali, Rwanda, in which some former child combatants are held in the wake of the 1994 genocide. These juveniles had been held with the adult population, but with support from UNICEF they've been given their own wing. Nonetheless one segment of this footage reveals a boy of 12 among the adults. Luc Chauvin of UNICEF is interviewed. He describes efforts to move youth to Gitagata Re-education Center. Jean de Dieu Mucyo, the Rwandan Minister of Justice, is interviewed; he discusses Rwandan law as it pertains to the detention of children.

In May of 1999, a US Researcher and WITNESS partner shot footage in Rwanda depicting former child soldiers and exploring the activity of children during the Rwandan genocide. The footage includes the church at Kibeho, one site of killing of Tutsis by Hutus, and emblematic of one of the signature horrors of the genocide: that those seeking sanctuary in churches throughout the country were instead turned over to their killers. The site has been left intact, one of 10 such sites in Rwanda, as a memorial. The video shows the interior remains of the church with bones, skulls, and intact whole skeletons. Also included is an interview with a man who was forced to join the militia and to murder his sister's children by beating them with a stick. Interview with Casimir Karasira, director of the Gitagata center for reeducation of former child combatants.

This tape features short interviews with girls who have been orphaned by the war in Sri Lanka. They speak of their loss, their anger and their hope for the future.

Grace Acayo and Monica Andrea Godoy are two of the young activists that spoke at a UNICEF-sponsored meeting called "Girls As Their own Advocates" at the Millennium Summit. This tape contains interviews with each of them. They are both working with World Vision International (WVI) to campaign for children's rights around the world. Grace Acayo was a former child soldier in Uganda. She and her younger sister were abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and were forced to become sex slaves and child soldiers for two years. On the march to the rebels' base in southern Uganda they were forced to beat their own cousin to death. Grace has spoken to the United Nations and at events in Australia about her experiences, campaigning against the recruitment of children into any army or military force. She is interviewed with her back to the camera. Monica Andrea Godoy is from Colombia. She lives in in one of the most dangerous slums in the capital Bogota. There, she continually witnesses violence stemming from such causes as delinquency, family discord, and politics. She is part of WVIs Cazuca Project, which is the base for helping to develop awareness toward the causes and consequences of violence.

Part 1 of this footage shows Angelina Atyam, whose daughter, Charlotte Awino, was abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army from St. Mary's College. She is in a lush village environment, with crops, banana trees, thatched huts. Angelina Atyam became active in the crusade to have her daughter and other abductees released. [Note: Angelina was reunited with her daughter in July, 2004, after Charlotte escaped from her captors.]

St Mary's College in Uganda. The college is an all girls boarding school, from which more than 100 girls were abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army. There are very well-shot scenes of various classrooms where children are learning math and literature, many interior and exterior shots, girls in uniforms, walking on the grounds, nice shots of empty classrooms, girls drinking water at outdoor spigots, more interiors and exteriors, poster with Pope on wall, other religious paraphernalia. All of the classroom dialog takes place in English.

An orthopedic workshop built with the funding of the Italian government in Gulu, 1999.

Interview with Witness partner Jimmie Briggs.

This video begins at the Dadaab Refugee camp in northern Kenya. INTERVIEW with Alice Lakwena, founder of the Holy Spirit Movement and alleged relative of Joseph Kony, leader of the Lord's Resistance Army / B-ROLL of the camp include residents, thatched huts, people eating and drinking, washing clothes, nice shots of children/ INTERVIEW Kofi Hagan, director of World Vision International, an organization that deals with the rehabilitation and reintegration of formerly abducted children in Uganda / Kampala b-roll include buildings and streets, stadium EXT, VS cranes on garbage heap./ some b-roll of camp in Gulu

The footage includes: shots of Kampala, Uganda; driving to Gulu from Kampala with a member of parliament; scenes of the Gulu; and site visits to the Bucoro, Paicho and Vayama Protected Villages in Northern Uganda with a prominent M.P.

This video begins at the Dadaab Refugee camp in northern Kenya. INTERVIEW with Alice Lakwena, founder of the Holy Spirit Movement and alleged relative of Joseph Kony, leader of the Lord's Resistance Army / B-ROLL of the camp include residents, thatched huts, people eating and drinking, washing clothes, nice shots of children/ INTERVIEW Kofi Hagan, director of World Vision International, an organization that deals with the rehabilitation and reintegration of formerly abducted children in Uganda / Kampala b-roll include buildings and streets, stadium EXT, VS cranes on garbage heap./ some b-roll of camp in Gulu

The footage includes: shots of Kampala, Uganda; driving to Gulu from Kampala with a member of parliament; scenes of the Gulu; and site visits to the Bucoro, Paicho and Vayama Protected Villages in Northern Uganda with a prominent M.P.

Interview with Witness partner Jimmie Briggs.

Interview with Witness partner Jimmie Briggs.

Grace Acayo and Monica Andrea Godoy are two of the young activists that spoke at a UNICEF-sponsored meeting called "Girls As Their own Advocates" at the Millennium Summit. This tape contains interviews with each of them. They are both working with World Vision International (WVI) to campaign for children's rights around the world. Grace Acayo was a former child soldier in Uganda. She and her younger sister were abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and were forced to become sex slaves and child soldiers for two years. On the march to the rebels' base in southern Uganda they were forced to beat their own cousin to death. Grace has spoken to the United Nations and at events in Australia about her experiences, campaigning against the recruitment of children into any army or military force. She is interviewed with her back to the camera. Monica Andrea Godoy is from Colombia. She lives in in one of the most dangerous slums in the capital Bogota. There, she continually witnesses violence stemming from such causes as delinquency, family discord, and politics. She is part of WVIs Cazuca Project, which is the base for helping to develop awareness toward the causes and consequences of violence.

Footage of the Gikondo Prison in Kigali, Rwanda, in which some former child combatants are held in the wake of the 1994 genocide. These juveniles had been held with the adult population, but with support from UNICEF they've been given their own wing. Nonetheless one segment of this footage reveals a boy of 12 among the adults. Luc Chauvin of UNICEF is interviewed. He describes efforts to move youth to Gitagata Re-education Center. Jean de Dieu Mucyo, the Rwandan Minister of Justice, is interviewed; he discusses Rwandan law as it pertains to the detention of children.

This video features Ugandan land mine survivors at Gulu Hospital in Uganda, including sign outside hospital, interior interviews and some b-roll of prosthetics, exteriors with interviews, b-roll of survivors on crutches, with prosthetics, missing limbs / Ext of thatched hut, Int hut with many young students singing and clapping / Ext refugee camp include thatched huts, land mine victims sitting outside, other refugees, a few good shots of children happily running toward camera / [shot through front windshield of car & time-stamped] crowds of people walking on either side of moving car along dirt road / footage at Kitgum is well-shot but time stamped, includes a ruined burned-out building with children playing, people cooking, thatched huts, children, daily life. The interviews are generally in Acholi. There are some sound problems (wind) and lighting is not ideal in places.

"Protected" camps or villages were set up in Northern Uganda by the government near Ugandan army installations, in order to decrease the vulnerability of civilians living in isolated rural areas to attacks and abductions by the Lord's resistance Army. Tens of thousands of displaced people have fled the countryside and set up temporary homes in the camps, but crowded conditions and lack of food and sanitation facilities have rendered the population vulnerable to death from malnutrition and disease. The residents remain vulnerable to attacks by the LRA.