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Joseph Kony 2012: growing outrage in Uganda over film

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There is growing outrage in Uganda over a viral internet film viewed by more than 32 million people in four days that suggests Africa’s longest-running conflict is still raging in the country’s north.

Kony2012, was produced by three American videographers campaigning for greater efforts to capture Joseph Kony, the leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA).

But Kony and his diminishing troops, many of them kidnapped child soldiers, fled northern Uganda six years ago and are now spread across the jungles of neighbouring countries.

“What that video says is totally wrong, and it can cause us more problems than help us,” said Dr Beatrice Mpora, director of Kairos, a community health organisation in Gulu, a town that was once the centre of the rebels’ activities.

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5 comments // Joseph Kony 2012: growing outrage in Uganda over film

  • maasanova
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      maasanova  

    • I sense hypocrisy from the limosuine liberals who are once again cheerleading for more war.

      Have they seen some of the fresh out of high school enlistees who join the US military? They can barely be called adults, and many of them literary capacity of children.

    • 1 year ago
  • Radical_Centrist
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    • maasanova:

      I in no way believe that the US Government should be involved in the Police action to arrest Kony! That being said I think it is ABSURD to compare an 18 year old ENLISTING in the US Military to a prepubescent boy KIDNAPPED in the middle of the night and being FORCED to fight under the threat of death or worse.

    • 1 year ago
  • maasanova
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    • Radical_Centrist:

      I don't think it's absurd at all.

      First of all, I question whether these children were kidnapped at all. Sure it could have happened to a few children, but I'd bet that the majority were coerced with promises of a better life such as food and shelter when they probably didn't have it before.

      What is the difference between these children in Uganda and army recruiters going to high schools promising poor children a guaranteed living when many of them come from broken homes?

    • 1 year ago
  • Radical_Centrist
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    • maasanova:

      On most issues i pretty much agree with you, but we could not be on more opposite sides on this one if we tried. I have been cursorily following this for the last 20 years or so. I have seen 10's if not 100's of interviews with escaped kid solderer & and escaped child sex slaves in that time. The "ALL" said they were FORCED to do what they did or face death or WORSE. I am sure some of the kids are bribed, but MANY if not most are FORCED.

      I agree that the US Military recruiters concentrate on the economically depressed areas for their recruiting, but at the end of the day the kids can still say NO! I am not aware of any US Recruiter FORCING a new recruit to Rape his grandmother then slit his grandfathers throat while his parents look on in horror. Kony DESERVES a bullet to the back of his head! I just do not think the US should be the one to deliver it.

    • 1 year ago
  • maasanova
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    • Radical_Centrist:

      Well fair enough.

      You've obviously done some research on child soldiers where I admit that I have not. But you threw in sex slaves and forced slavery (the legitimate kind that happens on cruise ships like Carnival), which is something that I know quite a bit about and I agree with you there as well.

    • 1 year ago

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