nbc's rohit kachroo reports tonight from a remote village inside uganda. >> reporter: nearly every child here has lost a parent to kony's brutality. they're taught to know his name and to fear it. even though his troops left this town seven years ago, they still pose a threat elsewhere in the region. mothers here cling to their children, fearing they may return. conti was abducted and forced to be a child soldier. she said no youngster should have to witness the brutality that she did. this was the site of one of kony's last massacres in 2004. now it's a center to rehabilitate those who survived and to educate the children orphaned by a generation of his tyranny. here in gulu, where so much of the bloodshed took place, few have seen the video that has made kony notorious around the world. >> for 20 years, he's been kidnapping children into his group, the lra, turning the girls into sex slaves and the boys into child soldiers. he forces them to kill their own parents. >> i love you! >> reporter: it's opened millions of eyes to the story of one abductee, jacob, now known around the world b