El Documental que está causando revuelo en el mundo por el secuestro y la
esclavitud de miles de niños para entrenarlos para asesinar y el responsable es un hombre
llamado Joseph Kony en Uganda, su organización es Lord's Resistance Army. Esta
historia es impresionante.
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Charity goes after African rebel leader with 'KONY 2012'
video
By msnbc.com staff and news services
A charity whose tactics have been criticized is making
traction online with a video, "KONY 2012," that aims to
bring down the leader of a cult-like rebel army in Africa.
The 30-minute documentary, which has had more than
7 million YouTube downloads, was made by Invisible Children, a
charity that wants Joseph Kony, head of the Lord's Resistance Army, to
face trial in an international court on charges of using children as soldiers and
other human rights crimes in Uganda.
A recent Foreign
Affairs report challenged the tactics used by the charity and several
others, saying they had exaggerated the scale of Kony's crimes.
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Jedediah Jenkins, the charity's director of idea
development, told the Washington
Post that the criticism was "myopic" and that the film
reflected a "tipping point" by getting young Americans to care about
an issue in Africa.
"The film has reached a place in the global
consciousness where people know who Kony is, they know his crimes,"
Jenkins added. "Kids know and they respond. And then they won’t allow it
to happen anymore."
On Tuesday, the UN refugee agency said the Lord's Resistance
Army had launched a new spate of attacks in the northeastern
region Democratic Republic of Congo this year after a lull in the second
half of 2011.
On April 20, the group
is asking supporters to cover their
hometowns with posters
calling for Kony to be
brought to justice.
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But experts on the LRA were skeptical about writing off
Kony's force too soon.
Mareike Schomerus at the London School of Economics said
small scale attacks did not necessarily mean the LRA was getting weaker.
"It doesn't tell us anything because it's the same
thing they have been doing for the last 25 years," she said.
The LRA, which emerged in northern Uganda in the late 1990s,
is believed to have killed, kidnapped and mutilated thousands of people.
Kony is wanted by the International Criminal Court and the African Union,
which has designated it as a terrorist group.
In October the United States sent 100 military personnel,
mainly special forces, to train and advise the forces fighting against the LRA.
This article includes reporting by msnbc.com staff and
Reuters
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