Re: Who\'s the most remarkable person you know of? Why?
Angelina Acheng Atyam, cofounder of the CPA and recipient of a UN human rights award for her work in bringing awareness to the situation in uganda/sudan with the Lord's Resistance Army and their slave army of kidnapped children.
this summarizes why pretty well:
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Eight months after Atyam's daughter disappeared, she received a message that a LRA commander wanted to meet with her. The LRA, it seemed, was ready to offer her a deal—the release of her daughter if she ceased her public-relations campaign. Atyam countered with an offer to do so if all the girls from St. Mary's were freed, but the LRA refused it. Her family was appalled that she had turned down the offer, but as she wrote in Marie Claire, "getting my child back would be absolutely wonderful, but if I accepted the offer, I would be turning my back on all the other families. I'd destroy the new community spirit we had created—the hope of getting all the boys and girls back."
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