e/Aboke abductions

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has glosseng: The Aboke abductions were the abductions of 139 female secondary school students by rebels of the Lords Resistance Army from St. Marys College boarding school in Aboke, northern Apac District, Uganda on 10 October 1996. The deputy head mistress of the college, Sister Rachele Fassera of Italy, pursued the rebels and negotiated the release of 109 of the girls. The Aboke abductions and Fassera's dramatic actions drew unprecedented, to that point, international attention to the insurgency in northern Uganda.
lexicalizationeng: Aboke abductions
instance of(noun) (law) the unlawful act of capturing and carrying away a person against their will and holding them in false imprisonment
snatch, kidnapping
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