More Work To Bring War Criminals to Justice

About the Author: John Kerry serves as the U.S. Secretary of State.

Imagine for a moment that you are a child growing up in central Africa. Instead of sleeping at home with your family each night, you take shelter with dozens of other children. You hope you’ll find safety in numbers. You pray that you will not be pulled out of your bed and abducted in the night by an armed militia – conscripted into a life of violence, forced to brutalize your own family members, used as a sex slave, condemned to a life on the run from the authorities.

It’s a living nightmare – but thanks in part to last year’s Kony video about the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), it’s a reality that millions of Americans now know that for almost 20 years has tormented and terrorized children across Uganda, the DRC, the Central African Republic, and South Sudan.

It has to stop.

Last April at this exact time, I came to the Huffington Post and… more »

(Source: blogs.state.gov)