I'm Mike Thompson with When the Shooting Stops. In this BBC documentary over the next hour

I'll be looking at how countries can avoid sliding back into war after signing peace deals. As part of this investigation I'll be

returning to Sri Lanka and Uganda two countries I've reported from that endured

long and brutal civil wars.

I begin with Uganda, where more than 20 years of conflict cost tens of thousands of lives,

before the rebel Lords Resistance Army was driven out of Uganda into

neighboring countries. Here's some of the horror I encountered.

There's no starker reminder of the utter fear spread by the LRA than the sight in front of me.

Empty home after empty home stretch out as far as I can see.

Over here, a broken plate lies on the ground,

and just here a torn dress trodden into the dirt

beneath this straw-topped hut beside me.

I'm really scared about the LRA. I'm so frightened that I can't sleep properly at night. I'm always waking up thinking one of them is

opening our door or standing over me. In my mind I'm seeing them everywhere.

I remember one in Kitugum where the old village was to be destroyed. I participated in it.

Some people were killed using axes and machetes.

Others were burned in their house.

I only prayed that God forgive me for that.

Here in northern Uganda, it's been more than 10 years

since the guns fell silent after more than two decades of war. During were forced to flee their homes. As many as 60,000 children

were abducted by the Lords Resistance Army, many of them forced to become sex slaves or child

soldiers. Very few here had been brought before the courts to account for them. Yet, so far, the comprehensive peace agreement signed in the

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