Please take the time to view all (or at least part) of this very impressive video by Invisible Children on the international effort to bring Joseph Kony, indicted war criminal, murderer & abductor of tens of thousands of children. Very important and a call to action to promote awareness.
KONY 2012 is a film and campaign by Invisible Children that aims to make Joseph Kony famous, not to celebrate him, but to raise support for his arrest and set a precedent for international justice.
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Joseph Kony is the messianic leader of the Lord's Resistance Army, a designated terrorist organization that has for the last two-plus decades wrought havoc throughout East Africa. He is blamed for the deaths of tens of thousands of people, and the kidnapping of thousands more children to be used as sex slaves and child soldiers. His weapons are rape, dismemberment, mutilation. He has been indicted for war crimes by the Hague.
Years of defections and military victories against him have whittled his militia down to several hundred fighters
Last October, in accordance with legislation passed by Congress, President Obama ordered the deployment of several teams of Special Forces and intelligence personnel to aid local security forces in Uganda, South Sudan, CAR and other African nations in a coordinated hunt for Joseph Kony and his top lieutenants. Now deployed, the increased pressure is believed to have forced the LRA to disperse. But it is now changing tactics to more terroristic violence.
I dare say, that with the death of Osama Bin Laden, Joseph Kony now stands as the most wanted mass murderer on the planet.
The point of the video is this: If interest in the hunt for Kony fades, governments may withdraw the material support for the hunt.
Basic idea...get important cultural forces (celebrities, media, policymakers) to embrace the neutralization of Joseph Kony as a cause celebre.
Rec, share, and tweet this video all you can. And if you want to do more the video details what you can do.
Need more inspiration? Then remember that Joseph Kony actually has his defenders here in the United States...namely one Rush Limbaugh, who incredulously claimed Obama's deployment of special forces to hunt him meant Obama was 'waging war on Christians.'
http://mediamatters.org/...
On his radio show today, Rush Limbaugh launched another religion-based smear of President Obama: that he is sending troops to Africa to kill Christians. Limbaugh declared that "President Obama has deployed troops to another war, in Africa," adding that the group being targeted, the Lord's Resistance Army, "are Christians. They are fighting the Muslims in Sudan. And Obama has sent troops, United States troops to remove them from the battlefield, which means kill them. ... So that's a new war, a hundred troops to wipe out Christians."
That speaks for itself. In a vacuum, such lies can take hold, and will abet Kony and his murder campaign. Knowledge is the only weapon against it.
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