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Lost. Alone. Belonging nowhere, to no one. A life turned upside down.
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Parents killed during the conflict. When she was just a child. Abducted, a child soldier. A child mother.
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The baby's father, a commander, was also killed. So she returned ... parentless, husbandless. No house or land or clan or community. Alone with a child.
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The stigma haunts her to this day. Branded a "rebel", she cannot move on. Trying to start a new relationship, she is rejected again and again. So her youngest children are fatherless, too.
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She sees no future, except for her son. But he, too, is rejected, insulted. Bullied and chased from school. As a "rebel's child".
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Isolated, she withdraws. The conflict stole all of her life and all of her chances.
Photo: Pete Muller for the ICC #LifeAfterConflict - Stories as told to ICC Outreach @pete_k_muller