When the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Luis Moreno Ocampo announced his intention to focus his first investigation on the war crimes committed by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) against civilians in northern Uganda in January 2004, I was with a group of Uganda civil society activists in New York City. The delegation had arrived at the United Nations (UN) several days before the announcement, hoping to appeal to influential states and UN bodies who could pressure the Ugandan government to enter peace talks with the rebels and uphold an amnesty put in place some years earlier. One of the civil society members was Angelina Atyam, co-founder of the Concerned Parent's Association (CPA), a network composed of hundreds of parents whose children had been abducted by the LRA, and most of whom were still missing. Over the course of the long war, tens of thousands of children and young persons had been captured by the LRA and forced to porter, work, fight, kill or harm civilians, or even abduct other children and youth. Atyam's daughter had been one of them. She was gravely concerned by the prosecutor's announcement, and by how it might affect the chances of her daughter returning home safely. The indictment, she feared, would legitimate the military campaign; but when the army engaged the rebels, their bullets did not differentiate between a rebel and an abducted child. Even if she did return, Atyam asked me, how would the community view her?