A former child soldier and sex slave for a Ugandan terrorist group was lauded by members of Congress yesterday for surviving her ordeal to tell her story 10 years later before the House of Representative international relations subcommittee. "It is truly a testament to you that you are so remarkably poised and strong," Rep. Christopher H. Smith, New Jersey Republican, told Grace Akallo, 26. More than 80 people crammed into a House hearing room to hear her. She asked the United States to pressure Uganda to do more to end a civil war that has engulfed northern Uganda, southern Sudan and the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and to mobilize the international community. Read more at The Washington Times.