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Author Peter Eichstaedt, far right, will talk about reporting on child soldiers Monday evening. In this photo from 2006, he waits for the Lord’s Resistance Army near the border of South Sudan and Congo.

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Peter Eichstaedt, Africa editor for the Institute for War and Peace Reporting in The Hague, will speak about his new book, First Kill Your Family: Child Soldiers of Uganda and the Lord’s Resistance Army, at 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 23, in the Ernie Pyle Auditorium. While on campus, he also will speak to journalism students in several classes.

Eichstaedt has reported from locations worldwide, including Slovenia, Moldova, Afghanistan, Albania, Armenia and Uganda, and he is a former senior editor for Uganda Radio Network.

While working for the IWPR, Eichstaedt went to Uganda to report on that nation’s civil war. The guerilla group, Lord’s Resistance Army, used children as soldiers, telling the new recruits to “first, kill your family.”

Eichstaedt began interviewing victims, perpetrators and government officials to tell the story of this war, its violence, its refugees and its child soldiers. The result is his latest book, published earlier this month.

For more, read Eichstaedt’s blog at this link.

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