"What i was confronted with, with whic was really dramatizing was going into thes squalid camps and finding people living in a situation that is difficult to i but what even dramatized me more was to fine people who were emaciated," she says. "You could see their heads, you could seet count their ribs. Sometimes the number of children who were dying was just, i couldn't even count them." She adds: 'And probably i could say that this really inspired me too, that it has to come to an end'
In an effort to bring an end to violence in northern Uganda in 1993, Betty Bigombe decides to engage directly with the notorious warlord, Joseph Kony. Today we hear about one woman’s approach to unlocking peace in the enemy.
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