Govt Launches Documentary To Counter China Keitetsi Abuse Claims
THE Government yesterday launched a 28-minute documentary, “Child Soldiers, The Media Hoaxâ€, to counter damaging allegations by a Uganda Peoples Defence Forces deserter that the National Resistance Army (NRA) recruited child combatants in its bush war (1981-1986),
THE Government yesterday launched a 28-minute documentary, “Child Soldiers, The Media Hoaxâ€, to counter damaging allegations by a Uganda Peoples Defence Forces deserter that the National Resistance Army (NRA) recruited child combatants in its bush war (1981-1986), reports Alfred Wasike.
In 2002, a woman called China Keitetsi, but earlier variously known as Jacqueline or Sarah, published a book titled, “Child Soldier, Fighting For My Lifeâ€, in which she claimed to have been conscripted into the NRA aged eight years in 1984 in western Uganda. Inspired by the book, a film documentary was made and broadcast worldwide by South Africa’s biggest television company, MNET, the CNN, BBC and other global networks.
Keitetsi, who lives in Denmark, claimed she was hounded out of Uganda and cannot see her children.
Her works, translated into several European languages, in which she accuses Museveni of “doing nothing as girl-child and female soldiers were raped during the bush war,†have shot her to such fame that she has met such luminaries as former US President Bill Clinton, South Africa’s Nelson Mandela, the UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, the Queen of Sweden and Hollywood celebrities like Whoopi Goldberg.
Museveni’s senior media advisor, John Nagenda, (right) launched the investigative film that stresses that Keitetsi joined the army in 1987 aged 17.
He said the film will be shown to audiences in Uganda, South Africa, Denmark, Belgium, the UK and USA to “correct the wrong impression created by that liar.†Her army number was RA/47417.
Lashing out at the makers of Keitetsi’s film for not bothering to get the Uganda Government’s side, Nagenda said, “It is incredible that media houses can be so gullible. It is a cardinal law of journalism to let all sides be heard.â€
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In 2002, a woman called China Keitetsi, but earlier variously known as Jacqueline or Sarah, published a book titled, “Child Soldier, Fighting For My Lifeâ€, in which she claimed to have been conscripted into the NRA aged eight years in 1984 in western Uganda. Inspired by the book, a film documentary was made and broadcast worldwide by South Africa’s biggest television company, MNET, the CNN, BBC and other global networks.
Keitetsi, who lives in Denmark, claimed she was hounded out of Uganda and cannot see her children.
Her works, translated into several European languages, in which she accuses Museveni of “doing nothing as girl-child and female soldiers were raped during the bush war,†have shot her to such fame that she has met such luminaries as former US President Bill Clinton, South Africa’s Nelson Mandela, the UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, the Queen of Sweden and Hollywood celebrities like Whoopi Goldberg.
Museveni’s senior media advisor, John Nagenda, (right) launched the investigative film that stresses that Keitetsi joined the army in 1987 aged 17.
He said the film will be shown to audiences in Uganda, South Africa, Denmark, Belgium, the UK and USA to “correct the wrong impression created by that liar.†Her army number was RA/47417.
Lashing out at the makers of Keitetsi’s film for not bothering to get the Uganda Government’s side, Nagenda said, “It is incredible that media houses can be so gullible. It is a cardinal law of journalism to let all sides be heard.â€
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