Dima Gavrysh is a New York based photographer specializing in documentary and travel photography. 

Uganda's forgotten war

Uganda's forgotten war.

IDP camp in Gulu.

For 20 years, a rebel group called the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and its notorious leader Joseph Kony, has been waging war against the Ugandan government, burning down villages, killing civilians, and abducting and forcing children to serve as soldiers and sexual slaves.

The LRA have also been accused of widespread human rights violations, including mutilation, torture, rape, and a number of massacres. Often, the abducted civilians are mutilated by having their noses, ears, lips and limbs cut off.

Based in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the LRA continues to terrorize life in northern Uganda, causing millions of people to abandon homes and live in dire conditions at the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) Camps.

People in the area are helped by the Doctors Without Borders / Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) that provides health care, rehabilitates and runs hospitals and clinics, battles epidemics, carries out vaccination campaigns and offers mental health care.