By JASON STRAZIUSO and RODNEY MUHUMUZA
Associated Press
KAMPALA, Uganda – The young American boy sums up what his father does for a living: “You stop the bad guys from being mean.” Yes, the father says, but who are the bad guys? The child thinks, then offers a guess: “Star Wars people?”
Though half a world away from this preschooler’s American upbringing, the truth is far more sinister.
The bad guys are Joseph Kony and his Lord’s Resistance Army, a brutal Central Africa militia that has kidnapped thousands of children and forced them to become sex slaves, fight as child soldiers and kill family members during a 26-year campaign of terror.