Joseph Kony is the leader of the "LRA", or better known as the Lord's Resistance Army, which is a
"christian army" that has terrorized Uganda for two decades. The army kidnapps children from their homes, and force them to either be sex slaves or soliders. It is reported that there have been tens of thousands of children that have been tortured and/or killed. Kony stays in hiding because he is wanted by the International Criminal Court Crime since 2005. Although, in 2007 Kony came out of hiding to sign a historic peace deal, which would have stopped his army but instead he backed out in 2008. Today, there is a group called lll that is making Kony's name international. Hopefully this man will be stopped sooner than later, innocent children being tortured and killed is an URGENT ISSUE!
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/k/joseph_kony/index.html
*group called TRI
ReplyDeleteThe destruction, heartbreak and loss that has resulted at the hands of Joseph Kony is impossible to comprehend, unless you have personally experienced it. It is inspiring and heart-warming to see that people, once their made aware of an issue begin to care, as seen by the overwhelming response received from the viral video. However for the impact to be truly long lasting the interest has to be set in stone and not simply a passing fancy; one to keep our interest until the next big thing emerges. People should continue in their support for the capture of Kony, and only through global perseverance will this criminal be brought to justice.
ReplyDeleteI think that everyone's first priority should be saving these children. With all the bad press lately about the director of the video and the foundation that was put in place to help the kids the focus has been taken away from saving the poor children. I think we need to forget about what's happening in the press and push to save the children because every child deserves a much better life than that.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Brenna. I feel that this video went through society in waves. The first wave was the video itself, the second being all the bad press about the director and the third questioning the videos information. But all this seems to have taken the focus off the children themselves, and I think that they should be the most prominent thing we think of when thinking about Kony.
ReplyDelete