The state minister for Defence has ordered the army to stop referring to rescued girls as former wives of rebel commanders. Ms Ruth Nankabirwa said such references could traumatize the girls, who were forced to marry the rebel commanders of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). "It has never been their [girls] wish that they get married to those commanders. I want to ask my commanders to change the language of reporting," she said at the army general headquarters in Bombo.