10/03/2012
Michael Gerson: The controversy over Kony 2012
The viral success of the KONY2012 film, produced by Invisible Children, has called immense Internet attention to the hunt for Joseph Kony, as well as provoking some criticism.
Kony is Africa?s most notorious militia leader. During a decade-long campaign of intimidation in northern Uganda, Kony?s Lord?s Resistance Army (LRA) kidnapped tens of thousands of children and youth for use as soldiers and sex slaves. The conflict displaced more than a million people into camps. Kony and his commanders were eventually chased into the ungoverned border region between the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the Central African Republic (CAR) and South Sudan. The LRA is now diminished and on the run. But it still conducted more than 300 attacks last year, generating fear and instability far beyond its numbers.
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