Kony 2012

I have been seeing a few 'Kony' facebook status' and have wondered what this 'craze' was all about. So I clicked on the youtube video...

I was amazed, upset, angry. But most of all I was inspired.


So who is Kony? Joseph Kony is the world's worst war criminal. In 1987 he took over leadership of an existing rebel group and renamed it the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). The LRA are cruel and brutal. Kony started abducting children to strengthen the army or to be sex-slaves to his soldiers. The LRA are encouraged to rape. mutilate and kill civilians - often with blunt weapons. The LRA have dispersed from Uganda (where it originated) to continue its violence in Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic and South Sudan. In its 26 year history, the LRA has abducted more than 30,000 children and displaced at least 2.1 million people.

So what is Kony 2012? The campaign aims to make Joseph Kony famous, not to celebrate him, but to raise support for his arrest and set a precedent for international justice. The campaign ultimately needs public support; if people know about the crimes that Kony has been committing for 26 years, they will unite and stop him. When he is stopped, he will be a visible, concrete example of international justice...then other war criminals will know that their mass atrocities will NOT go unnoticed or unpunished.


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