Six months without answers: A mother’s search for her abducted children
Nearly six months of uncertainty and unanswered questions have not weakened one mother’s hope of finding her two children, who were abducted along the Lirya Road. When armed men stopped the vehicle, Viola Osman did the one thing she could. She tried to hold on to her son. A gun was pressed against her head. Moments later, the attackers fled, taking Stella, four, and Alfred, two, with them. “Among all the passengers in the vehicle, I was the only one who attempted to lift my head,” Osman says. “But I made sure not to look them in the eye.” Nearly six months later, she has received no information about the whereabouts of her children. The attack The family was travelling from Juba to Kapoeta along the Lirya Road, part of the Juba-Torit route, when armed men attacked and looted their vehicle…
