I don't want to do my usual rants, because this is too important and the video speaks for itself.
So, just three words:
KONY 2012 from INVISIBLE CHILDREN on Vimeo.
WHAT YOU CAN DO?
So, just three words:
WATCH THIS NOW!
Then Click Read more below to for a quick overview of the conflict,
which is just as new to me, as it may be to you).
Then Click Read more below to for a quick overview of the conflict,
which is just as new to me, as it may be to you).
KONY 2012 from INVISIBLE CHILDREN on Vimeo.
WHAT YOU CAN DO?
- LIKE THIS VIDEO
- SHARE THIS VIDEO
- Go to Invisible Children and KONY2012 to learn more and Donate.
A History of Africa's longest-running armed conflict
In 1986, Yoweri Museveni gained the presidency of Uganda. Alice Lakwena, a woman from the Acholi tribe in northern Uganda started the Holy Spirit Movement (HSM) in opposition. The group recruited followers and forged alliances with rebel militias with the intent of entering Uganda’s capital city, Kampala, and freeing the north from government oppression. The Holy Spirit Movement had regional support, but regional support only. When Alice Lakwena was exiled, there was no obvious person to take over leadership of the Holy Spirit Movement.
Joseph Kony
Joseph Kony claimed to be a distant cousin of Alice Lakwena’s and the natural successor to lead the Holy Spirit Movement. Soon after Joseph Kony assumed management of the group, he changed the name to the Lord’s Resistance Army, or LRA. Joseph Kony wasn’t able to maintain the group's number or regional support, so he started stealing food and abducting children to fill the ranks of his army. Subsequently, he lost any remaining regional support. What had started out as a rebel movement to end the oppression of the north became an oppression of the north in itself.
Joseph Kony’s tactics were—and remain—brutal. He often forced children to kill their parents or siblings with machetes or blunt tools. He abducted girls to be sex slaves for his officers. He brainwashed and indoctrinated the children with his lies and manipulated them with his claim of spiritual powers.
At the height of the conflict in Uganda, children “night commuted.” That is, every evening they would walk miles from their homes to the city centers. There, hundreds of children would sleep in school houses, churches, or bus depots to avoid abduction by the LRA.
Kony and the LRA abducted more than 30,000 children in northern Uganda.READ MORE HERE: http://www.invisiblechildren.com/history-of-the-war
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