After six months there, she managed to escape and a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in South Africa placed her in Denmark.

“First love I got is from Europe, from Denmark,” she said.

Keitetsi lamented the corruption in Uganda, specifically the betrayal she felt after the NRA took power in 1986.

“We were told that we were fighting for freedom and to end injustice and tribalism,” she said. “When we took over, everyone was fighting for riches. They forget everything we were in the bush for.”

President Yoweri Museveni and the NRA are currently engaged in a brutal conflict with the Lord’s Resistance Army in north of Uganda.

The talk was part of a larger Northeast tour to promote awareness about child soldiering.

Tomorrow, Keitetsi will be speaking at the United Nations about the effects of child soldiering.

The U.N. is currently trying to get more countries to ratify the Convention on the Rights of the Child, an agreement which would eliminate military recruitment of children under the age of 18.

Only the United States and Somalia have not yet ratified the agreement. The other 191 U.N. member countries have ratified it.

About 30 students and faculty attended. The Harvard African Students Association (HASA) sponsored the screening at part of their series “War? What Is it Good For—A Look at Conflicts in Africa Through the Eyes of Scholars, Students and Survivors.”

HASA President Uzodinma C. Iweala ’04 said that because of the recent focus on the Middle East, “conflicts in Africa and all over the world have been completely overlooked.”