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REBLOG. EVERYONE. 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The LRA is no longer active in northern Uganda (where it originated) but it continues its campaign of violence in Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic, and South Sudan.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.
What is the goal of KONY 2012?
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.
We are taking action to ensure these two things:
1) That Joseph Kony is known as the World’s Worst War Criminal.
2) That the U.S. military advisers support the Ugandan Army until Kony has been captured and the LRA has been completely disarmed. They need to follow through all the way and finish what they have started.
Why are we making Joseph Kony “famous”?
Invisible Children’s KONY 2012 campaign aims to make Joseph Kony famous, not to celebrate him, but to raise support for his arrest and set a precedent for international justice. In this case, notoriety translates to public support. If people know about the crimes that Kony has been committing for 26 years, they will unite to stop him.
Secondly, we want Kony to be famous so that when he is stopped, he will be a visible, concrete example of international justice. Then other war criminals will know that their mass atrocities will not go unnoticed or unpunished.
everyone needs to reblog this.
a girl that was almost abducted came to our school a few weeks ago from uganda to talk to us
it’s horrible
and everyone needs to know who kony is
This is a victim and survivor of Josephs Kony’s LRA Guerrilla Army.
Only picture I’ll reblog x
MAKE KONY FAMOUS
It’s amazing how someone can go from your best friend for five years and then boom… nothing but a hater, backstabber, and bitch. I guess I thought it wouldn’t bother me because of how useless she is to me, but I was wrong. The fact that she would go out of her way to eff my life up really does take some balls. I hope she understands one day that her make-up covered skinny ass features will never, not ever win over anyone who actually cares about you. You say you’re such a nice person and you think everyone likes you, they don’t and you’re not. Get over it — reality will strike soon enough and I won’t be there when you fall flat on your ass with no one standing behind you.
I have a friend who is going through a rough time right now and it just dumbfounds me on how people can act and just walk out of people’s lives just like that. So much for being a “true friend”. Tonight as we were talking a boy at the young age of three came and walked up to her and looked…
made me cry…. I LOVE YOU