Each night in rebel-besieged Gulu, Uganda, thousands of town residents flock onto the grounds of Lacor Hospital, which has a guarded gate and a concrete wall surrounding it. We woke at sunrise to watch the reverse "exodus," which consists largely of children: young boys, afraid of being abducted into the rebel army, and young girls, afraid of being raped. The rolled, bamboo mats they carry serve as their beds for the night. One week before we visited the hospital, the Italian missionaries who run Lacor counted 3900 visitors for the night. To the hospital's administrators, who house some of the younger children in a tent that could hold a jetliner, that's a vast improvement over 4 years ago, when the nightly tally topped 8000.

(Photograph by Malcolm Linton)

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