HIDDEN WAR (Uganda, 2005)

For more than twenty years now northern Uganda has been terrorized by the Lord’s Resistance Army. This rebel group under the leadership of Joseph Kony wants to found a state based on the biblical Ten Commandments. To fill the ranks of its army, Kony kidnaps children who are then used as child soldiers or sex slaves. It is estimated that the Resistance Army has abducted 20,000 children already, who have been trained and brainwashed in neighboring Sudan. Kony is regarded as a spiritual leader by his followers. He is driven by visions and possesses magic powers. According to Kony himself, as an angel of God it is his calling to create a new world order on the basis of the Ten Commandments – commandments that he himself constantly violates.