First Kill Your Family

About the author

On Mount Kilimanjaro, August 2006

On Mount Kilimanjaro, August 2006

Peter Eichstaedt is Africa Editor for the Institute for War and Peace Reporting. He lives in the Denver area, and works in both The Hague and Africa. 

First Kill Your Family is the product of nearly two years of research that began in August 2005 and included travels throughout Uganda, South Sudan and the northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo in the spring of 2008 -- all of it on the trail of the Lord's Resistance Army.