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This reminds me of those 2 children in Burma who were the head of some rebel group. They were leading a group of rebels (I'd say terrorists), mainly from the Burmese minority called the Karen, and they would regularly raid Thai towns on the border. Like the Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army, these kids also gave their group a Christian sounding name ....in this case simply 'God's Army.' And like the LRA they did their fair share of atrocities, although nowhere near the sheer magnitude of horror that the LRA has done ....for example the LRA forces the children it abducts to kill one of their relatives, usually parents, or else see the entire family slaughtered. Most of these kidnapped Ugandan kids are around the ages of 12-14, and the ones who are not forced into being soldiers (I'd say cannon fodder) are turned into sex slaves. Most of the girls who are brought into sexual slavery are younger than 15 (actually very few of the kids are older than 15).

The LRA has kidnapped 20,000 children since it started its reign of terror, and every single night 40,000 Ugandan children have to commute from the rural areas to the bigger towns to avoid being captured by the LRA. Every single night. The following is a picture of a hospital that basically opens up room for people to send their kids every night so they can spend the night hours in relative safety. These kids are sleeping out in the open (no space inside), but at least they know that they will be there in the morning (as opposed to being forced to make a decision, at the age of 12 or 13 or 14, on whether to kill one member of their family or watch the entire family get hacked to pieces).

Anyways, going back to Burma and the 2 kids who led God's Army. Like the LRA, GA was a cult. The Karen minority in Burma believed the 2 kids (twins BTW) to be some sort of saint-cum-charismatic leader-cum-miracle worked-cum-blessed ones. They would have bibles in one hand and M-16s in the other, and they used to chain-smoke like crazy (they would literally chug away like 2 little smokestacks). And they were only 12 yrs old.

Anyways, the twins were finally captured after surrendering to Thai authorities (I guess God was not on their side after all), and it is quite hard to understand what was so charismatic about them. They had lice literally falling from their hair (more like matted dreadlocks), and were emaciated (they seemed younger than 12 yrs of age). I don't know what happened to the twins though ....once arrested they just disappeared.

Here is a pic of the twins who headed 'God's Army:'