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"Ododo Wa" Community Dialogues YouTube: "Advocating for Justice and Reparations in Uganda" Video: This is an annotated YouTube video documenting a discussion panel in which Evelyn Amony, Grace Acan, and Isabelle Masson discuss the exhibit and advocating for justice and reparations in Uganda. The panel was held 24 October 2019 at the Moot Courtroom of Robson Hall, Faculty of Law building at the University of Manitoba

What does family mean in the LRA context?

Annotation: Grace Acan explains what a family means in the context of the LRA. Acan is speaking in English. Transcript (by Patricia Trudel): "[...] if, the commander, a family typically is [...] a household that has a commander; this commander has a woman or women that he has been given to. Those include like young girls, those who are there old already, and hum, those that the commander is just keeping, or like newly abducted hum girls, or newly abducted people. That includes boys, the old boys that were there. So, the young girls that were there, the commander would call them 'the child' or 'children'. Hum, for the, even for the boys, so it was upon this woman or the women who have been assigned to this commander to cook food for whoever lived in that household, under that commander. So that was a family. So anybody who was abducted, brought, would automatically become like a member of that family. So that's how, that was the nature. Like anybody brought into that household was really like, a child or like any, yeah, would remain there. That's how the family was."

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Grace Acan explains what family means in the context of the LRA