Lord’s Resistance ARMY - Joseph Kony

Joseph Kony (Kony) might sound as an ordinary person, but when you put it right Kony is the man you do not want to meet. Kony, has long been one of Africa's most notorious warlords. He is currently one of the most wanted African militants as well .He has been accused by government entities of ordering the abduction of children to become child soldiers and sex slaves. Approximately 66,000 children became soldiers, and 2 million people were displaced internally from 1986 to 2009 by his forces.

Kony was indicted in 2005 for war crimes and crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, but he has evaded capture. He has been subject to an Interpol Red Notice at the request of the ICC since 2006. Since the Juba peace talks in 2006, the Lord's Resistance Army no longer operates in Uganda. Sources claim that they are in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the Central African Republic (CAR), or South Sudan.

The Guardian in an article from 2013 said that “ Kony, a self-declared mystic who claimed spirits had ordered him to seize power and rule Uganda according to the biblical Ten Commandments, has led the LRA for two decades, in which the group has terrorised communities across northern Uganda. His forces, who held sway through a potent mix of mysticism and brutal tactics of forcibly recruiting children and chopping off limbs, were reduced to just a few hundred fighters after being chased across the Nile in 2005.”

The Christian Science Monitor pointed out a very interesting fact, excerpts from an article from 2004 reads ” Kony's rebellion used to be largely financed and supported by the government of Sudan, which is Uganda's northern neighbour. He got this backing because he was a useful thorn in the side of Sudan's southern rebels. It enabled Kony to launch attacks in Uganda - and then sprint into Sudan, where Uganda's military couldn't touch him. This fed the myth that he was immune from government attacks.”

While all this time Joseph Kony was at large but Joseph Kony and the LRA received a surge of attention in early March 2012, when a 30-minute documentary titled Kony 2012 by US filmmaker Jason Russell for the campaign group Invisible Children, Inc. was released. The intention of the production was to draw attention to Kony in an effort to increase US involvement in the issue and have Kony arrested by the end of 2012.

A poll suggested that more than half of young adult Americans heard about Kony 2012 in the days following the video's release. Several weeks after the release of the video, a resolution condemning Kony and supporting US assistance fighting the LRA was introduced in the US Senate, passing several months later. Kony 2012 has been criticized for simplifying the history of the LRA conflict, and for failing to note that Kony was already pushed out of Uganda six years before the film was made

In another Youtube video Kony when asked about abduction and cruelty towards kids we can see him outrightly rejecting such claims, but later says if he was the president of Uganda he will guns in every childrens hand

In April 2017, Ugandan and US military forces ended their hunt for Kony and his group, with a Ugandan spokesperson stating that "the LRA no longer poses a threat to us as Uganda".[22] At that time, his force was estimated to have shrunk to around 100 soldiers

To This day Kony is carrying a bounty on his head. But the head of LRA has come down and world has moved on, the children and the sex slaves lives