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"As a mother, it is not easy to wait for a missing child to return -- it is very hard."
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Angelina AtyamYou cannot put out a fire with petrol. — Angelina Atyam
"You cannot put out a fire with petrol."
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Angelina Acheng Atyam is a Ugandan human rights activist and midwife. In 1996, Atyam's daughter and 138 other girls were kidnapped from an Aboke school by guerrillas from the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). Atyam founded the Concerned Parents Association to advocate for the release of the captive children and acted as the organization's spokesperson, travelling to Europe and the United States. In re
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"Unless the parents practiced forgiveness and sought a peaceful solution to the conflict, they would destroy what they most wanted back."
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"Bullets have no eyes. In the field, bullets would not know if a child was abducted or volunteered for the rebel army. War would destroy all these children."
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"We prefer to cling to bitterness, but bitterness is corrosive. Like a container filled with salt, it will destroy everything because the Lord cannot forgive us if we cannot forgive others. Life is wonderful if we let God heal us."
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