Was China a bona fide child soldier (kadogo) or is she an opportunistic fraud?
A Ugandan woman has published a book in Denmark about her experiences as a kadogo (child soldier), but is she genuine or a fraud? China Keitetsi says that she was abused and misused, but others who knew her say that she was deceitful and manipulative. We ask readers to judge China for themselves when they read her story as broadcast on M-Net’s famous Carte Blanche programme and the information collected by reporters Kalungi Kabuye and Joshua Kato, himself a former Kadogo This is an edited transcript of a documentary that ran last year on the M-Net program Carte Blanche. Produced by Susan Puren and narrated by Ruda Landman, it is about a girl who claims she was a kadogo in the National Resistance Army (NRA), and has written a book about her experiences. The book was published in Denmark on February 2, 2002. Book: China– A Child Soldier It is summer in Denmark and at the world-famous Tivoli in Copenhagen, people are streaming through the gates. Apart from the Danes, tourists from all ov
