In northern Uganda war has raged for 18 years, and shows no signs of abating. People have grown tired of the government's pledges that it will soon end the rebellion by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), which claims it is fighting to establish a government based on the Ten Commandments. Increasingly Ugandans are asking for talks between the government and the rebels. Over the past two decades the war in northern Uganda has forced 1.5 million people to flee their homes. Twenty thousand children have been forcibly recruited to fight by the LRA.