Kony 2012

Charity organization Invisible Children, whose cause is to get Joseph Kony to face trial in an international court on charges of using children as soldiers and numerous other human right violations, has made headlines with their release of their viral video "Kony 2012". The video now has over seven million views, and attempts to educate the American youth of what has been going on in Africa since the 90's; children being abducted by Kony's rebel group and being forced in to mass murder. Kony's group, the LRA, is considered to be a terrorist organization that started in Uganda but is now thought to be in the northeastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Since the groups inception, Kony and his soldiers have killed thousands of people, and their is no doubt that this man is dangerous and needs to be stopped. But a few people are starting to refute the video's accuracy of the facts, and a recent Foreign Affairs Report suggests that they are greatly exaggerated. One Canadian college student has questioned the group's call for military intervention and their clear emphasis on their film making skills. Further, a spokesman for the U.N.'s Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo has come out and said that the videos depiction of the group's current strength is not what it actually is, and that the group is "on its last legs". The spokesman went on later to say that the estimated number of soldiers still fighting for the group is somewhere around 200.

By: Tyler Lundquist
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