It takes less than 30 minutes to watch this amazing and eye-opening video.
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.
Who is Joseph Kony?
From Kony2012.com:
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 has earned a reputation for its cruel and brutal tactics. When Joseph Kony found himself running out of fighters, he started abducting children to be soldiers in his army or “wives” for his officers. The lRA is encouraged to rape, mutilate, and kill civilians–often with blunt weapons.
The lRA is no longer active in northern Uganda (where it originated) but it continues its campaign of violence in democratic republic of Congo, Central African Republic, and South Sudan.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.
The goal of Kony 2012 is to bring Joseph Kony to justice this year:
Invisible Children has been working for 9 years to end Africa’s longest-running armed conflict. U.S. military advisers are currently deployed in Central Africa on a “time-limited” mission to stop Kony and disarm the lRA. If Kony isn’t captured this year, the window will be gone.
One of my students has been following Invisible Children for more than four years. I added my name to the cause today, ordered a kit, and plan to bring educate myself more, bring myself up to speed on this issue.
Won’t you help bring the world’s worst war criminal to justice?
Joseph Kony.
