Grace Akallo

Grace Akallo (born 1981) is a Ugandan woman who, at the age of 15, while attending a Catholic school, was abducted by Joseph Kony to be used as a child soldier in the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). As part of her initiation into the army, she was forced to kill another girl, a very common practice among armies that employ child soldiers. She remained in the LRA for seven months, during which Akallo became a skilled AK-47 user. She was raped and became a sexual slave. She was eventually rehabilitated and became a mother. The 2007 book Girl Soldier: A Story of Hope for Northern Uganda's Children is a biography of Akallo. She is interviewed in the documentary film Not My Life on the subject of human trafficking, saying that "this kind of evil must be stopped." She also appears in the documentary film Grace, Milly, Lucy... Child Soldiers.