The Joseph Kony Invisible Children story in photos
WHEN Invisible Children posted their film about Joseph Kony on the internet, the thing exploded. Kony was big news. Debate raged. A Start The War movement was born. So was the charity’s Jason Russell (arrested for masturbating in public). This is the story in photos:
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A man mutilated by the rebels and now a refugee in an Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp in Gulu district, August 2006 in northern Uganda. For 20 years a rebel group known as the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and its infamous leader, Joseph Kony, have been waging a war against the Ugandan government, burning villages, mutilating civilians, and abducting children to force them to serve as soldiers and sex slaves. Based in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the LRA continues to terrorize northern Uganda, forcing millions of people to abandon their homes for dire conditions of IDP camps. People in the affected area are helped by Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), who provide health care, rehabilitate and run hospitals, battle epidemics, carry out vaccination campaigns, and offer mental healthcare.
Posted: 17th, March 2012 | In: Reviews Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
