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U.K. Jewish students protest Uganda child abductions at Jerusalem rally
By Max Julius
Tags: Jewish World 

A group of British Jewish students marched in Jerusalem on Thursday to protest the plight of the some 30,000 children abducted in Uganda over the last two decades.

The rally was be one of more than 100 worldwide, coordinated by the international "Gulu Walk" campaign for the Ugandan children.

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The conflict's being going on for 22 years, and as it's not on our doorstep - and it's not about a little blonde girl called Madeleine McCann - people don't care," said Deborah Blausten, an organizer of the Jerusalem march.

Blausten, 18, was referring to the British 4-year-old girl whose name made headlines when she disappeared in 2007 while on a trip with her family in Portugal.

According to a recent United Nations report, at least 30,000 children have been kidnapped in Uganda over the last 22 years. After their abduction, many are forced into becoming child soldiers and sex slaves.

The British students, all aged 18-19, belong to the RSY-Netzer Reform Judaism youth movement. They planned on bringing to the march many of their peers from other movements who are also in Israel for the year to learn about Judaism, Zionism and youth leadership.

Blausten, speaking from the group's base in Jerusalem, stressed that the issue was important to her because of her identity as a Jew.

"Judaism says you mustn't stand idly by while your neighbor's blood is being shed. Even more so now, when we live in a global village-it makes their plight even harder to ignore. We have no excuse for not knowing," she said.

While most of the other marches worldwide will be held on Saturday, Blausten added that the Jerusalem group chose to hold theirs on Thursday so as not to violate Shabbat.

"This is going to be the first kosher gulu walk," she noted.

The march began at the Supreme Court at 6:30 P.M., after which it will proceed downtown across Bezalel Street, King George Street, Gershon Agron Street, King David Street, Hillel Street and Ben Yehuda Street. The rally concluded at Zion Square at 8:30 P.M.

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