Child Soldiers: One Voice, One Thousand Children (Part 1)

Learn more: http://pulitzercenter.org/projects/af... "One Voice, One Thousand Children" is a two part series looking at Child Soldiers recruited by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in the first part and Young Girls who are conscripted, raped and made the wives of LRA soldiers in the second. The stories are told by two distinct single voices representing many. Recently the Obama administration continued military aid to four countries known for their use of Child Soldiers, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Chad, Yemen and Southern Sudan by issuing a waiver to the Child Soldiers Prevention Act. In a memorandum to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, President Obama said he had determined that the waiver was in "the national interest." By Marcus Bleasdale / VII in association with Human Rights Watch and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. The project "The Lord's Resistance Army: The Hunt for Africa's Most Wanted" (http://bit.ly/nzAv4A) contains reports and photographs of victims of the LRA. This is Part One: Child Soldiers Also featured on VII Magazine: http://player.viistories.com/index.ph...