Kony 2012 is a short documentary produced by Invisible Children, Inc. (author of Invisible Children ). The song was released on March 5, 2012. The aim of the film is to promote the charity "Stop Kony" movement to make the cult and leaders of Ugandan militia, indict war criminals and international criminal judge Joseph Kony known globally for him to be captured by the end of 2012, when campaign ends. The film is spreading virally and this campaign was initially supported by various celebrities. On October 10, 2017, the film has received over 101 million views and nearly 1.4 million "likes" on YouTube's video-sharing website, and over 18.6 million views and over 21.5 thousand "likes" on Vimeo, with another view on the "Kony 2012" center website operated by Invisible Children. The intense exposure of the video caused the website "Kony 2012" to crash shortly after it became widely popular. Polls show that more than half of young American adults heard about Kony 2012 in the days after the video release. It was among the top international events of 2012 by PBS and was called the most viral video ever by TIME .
This campaign resulted in a resolution by the United States Senate and contributed to the decision to send troops by the African Union. The film also called for a worldwide April 20 attack campaign, called "Night Cover". On April 5, 2012, Invisible Children released a follow-up video, titled Kony 2012: Part IIÃ, - Beyond Famous , which failed to repeat its original success.
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The film documents the Visible Children's plan and attempts to capture Joseph Kony. This illustrates Kony's actions with rebel militia groups, the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), including forced recruitment of child soldiers, and areas (northern Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo and Southern Sudan) where they have been active. One of the main people featured in this film is a Ugandan young man named Jacob Avaye, whose brother was killed by the LRA. In response, the director and founder of Invisible Children, Jason Russell, promised Jacob that he would help "stop Kony".
The film supports the restoration of the social order and limits the forced and forced military service of the youth. The video also has a clip of young Jason Russell who reacts to information about Kony. Toward the end of the film, the 2011 announcement of US President Barack Obama showed the authorization of the deployment of 100 Special Forces military advisers to provide "information, advice and assistance to partner country forces" from Central African countries to "remove Joseph Kony from the battlefield". This video concludes by getting viewers to join their publicity campaign by putting up posters and helping out in their community.
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Invisible Child
The Invisible Children charity has focused on getting support from a select group of individuals to "help bring awareness to child abuse and killing in East and Central African countries at the hands of Kony and his leadership." The list includes 20 "celebrity culture makers", such as George Clooney, Angelina Jolie, Oprah Winfrey (who significantly helped spread the video), Taylor Swift and Ryan Seacrest. The list also features 12 "policymakers" who have "powers to guard US government officials in Africa" ​​to work towards Kony's capture. The list includes former US President George W. Bush and his Foreign Minister Condoleezza Rice, and former Secretary of State John Kerry.
A number of celebrities support awareness campaigns against Kony, including Justin Bieber, Bill Gates, Christina Milian, Nicki Minaj, Kim Kardashian, Rihanna and Ellen Page.
Close Night
As part of the campaign, American supporters were asked to post a poster in their hometown in an action called "Cover the Night", which took place on April 20, 2012. Invisible Children offers posters and T-shirts in an effort to gain wider recognition. They also create action devices to help spread awareness that includes campaign buttons, posters, bracelets, and stickers.
The "Cover the Night" event takes place worldwide on 20 April 2012 and will be conducted by supporters who are encouraged to do some kind of charity that morning in their local community. Later that night, they posted leaflets and posters throughout their city for the Kony 2012 campaign. The number of participants for events around the world is much smaller than originally expected, with no officially announced official venues and fewer people present than those who have promised to attend. A tweet from Invisible Children stated, "There was no official meeting because we asked people to act locally with family friends [ sic ] in their neighborhood." One meeting in Vancouver has only 17 people; another in Brisbane has fewer than 50 participants. In Kelowna, British Columbia several signs and posters were installed, including two large banners "placed on either side of pedestrian crossing bridge". In Canberra, some Facebook groups produce multiple meetings of two or three people each; Pierre Johannessen, a "law firm partner running charities for disadvantaged children", distributed about 3,000 posters to groups to be deployed throughout the city. In Phoenix, 200 posters were prepared by "students and others in their teens and 20s", along with a number of chalk and stencil messages.
Reception
The film sparked a heated controversy over its benefits, with very different opinions expressed by various NGO workers, government and international officials, journalists, and other groups and individuals.
Social Media Response
After the video was released, various social media outlets went crazy and blew Kony 2012's movement into news around the world. The video, directed by Jason Russell, began to generate a large amount of social media attention. After becoming the fastest video to reach 100 million views in 6 days, Kony 2012 takes over social media with hashtags like #Kony 2012. The impact of social media is very relevant, on March 6th and 7th, more people talk about Kony 2012 via Facebook post from The newly released Apple iPhone. Along with Facebook, nearly 66% of Twitter conversations during March 5 to March 12 are about the Anti-Kony movement. Social media outlets, such as Facebook, are responsible for informing 27% of young adults from Kony 2012 videos, compared to 10% who learn about it through other traditional platforms. Overall, Kony 2012 makes a significant impact across all social media platforms. Over a short period of time, it became YouTube's number one video to reach a certain number of views in a short time, along with over 5 million related tweets that occurred in just a week's time.
Movement Virality
In less than a week, the video made by Invisible Children, Kony 2012 has been watched more than 100 million times. Time magazine credits on the strong base of Invisible Children followers on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. Unlike other videos that inadvertently "become viral", Kony 2012 is created to provoke an emotional response and encourage viewers to share recordings and spread hashtags. Viewers do a good job sharing it, they attract celebrities like Oprah Winfrey, Rihanna, Bill Gates, Ryan Seacrest, Justin Bieber, and Kim Kardashian-West. Although videos are very popular, not all interactions are positive. However, the more criticisms of the video, the more people watch it and share it so they can be part of the conversation. Their Community Relations team is not yet ready for the night fame and fails to control the falling narrative.
Forbes gives details of 12 reasons why the video became viral. They cite that video as inviting positive feelings, attracting viewers, making it private, referring to mainstream media, attracting hearts, conveying immediate, making it simple, making it real, giving scale, using celebrities, making events, and making it easy to get involved. These 12 basic tactics greatly affected viewers so that the 2012 Kony campaign was sold out when their two interns were unable to follow the hundreds of thousands of action supporters that users could buy. Jason Russell told Business Insider, "We take every red shirt in the US There's nothing else to buy." Google trends for searches like "Joseph Kony" and "Kony 2012" all show a flat line until the video is released where the spike reaches up to 100%. Before The Children Seen releasing the video, Joseph Kony and LRA are mostly unknown to America and the rest of the world.
Positive
Luis Moreno Ocampo, featured in the film and, at that time, the Chief Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC), voiced his support for films and campaigns that have "mobilized the world", and said that Criticism is "stupid". The Special Representative and head of the newly established UN Office for Central Africa (UNOCA), Abou Moussa, said that international interests in Kony are "useful, very important". The White House released a statement of support through Press Secretary Jay Carney, who stated at a press conference, "We congratulate hundreds of thousands of Americans who have been mobilized to this unique crisis of conscience" and said that the increased awareness of the video is "In accordance with legislation bipartisan ratified by our congress in 2010. " Cameron Hudson, policy director at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum and former African director of the National Security Council, also praised Invisible Children for reaching "tens of millions of people who may have never heard of Joseph Kony." Anthony Lake, executive director of UNICEF, was quoted as saying that the same viral video would make a difference during the Rwandan Genocide in 1994, also pointing out that "such public attention will also help save more lives in Darfur and in the eastern Congo."
Human Rights Watch (HRW) senior African division researcher Anneke Van Woudenberg wrote in a statement: "We have spent years investigating the horrors perpetrated by the LRA in central Africa - Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic (CAR) and South Sudan, we gather evidence at slaughterhouses - wooden clubs covered in dried blood, bits of rubber from bicycle tires used to tie the victims, and newly excavated tombs - and speak to hundreds of boys, men and women who were forced to fight for their troops or taken hostage as sex slaves, and we are happy that #stopKony is a trending topic on Twitter - if anyone deserves a global reputation it is Kony. "He added:" Caught Kony and senior leader Other LRAs will reiterate that those who commit mass atrocities will face justice.This will also help put an end to the false specter one of the most brutal rebel groups in Africa. " LRA HRW researcher Ida Sawyer reiterated, "We really support the message of this film and we think it's great that they bring a lot of attention to the film with Kony's crime and the LRA phenomenon." Amnesty International, which has documented what is described as "a terrible impact on the lives of thousands of civilians in the Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Southern Sudan and Uganda" and for years has called on LRA leaders to be arrested. , welcomed a massive public response to Kony's 2012 campaign. Erwin van der Borght, the organization's African director, wrote in a statement: "Joseph Kony and other LRA leaders have avoided capture for too long and this campaign is an important reminder of the crime that continuing by LRA members and the need to hold and surrender their leaders to the ICC so they can face trial, "but added:" Anyone who joins the 2012 Kony campaign should insist that efforts to arrest Joseph Kony should respect human rights ", especially because "many LRA members are victims of human rights violations including forced recruitment", and ensuring the protection of civilians.
Opinions about the film were mixed in Gulu, one of the former rebel centers in northern Uganda, during the screening, with some leaders expressing support and criticism. One of the attendees, Foreign Minister Henry Oryem Okello, said that the criticism directed at the film and Invisible Children is "unfounded", continuing to declare, "Visible Children have done the things seen in Acholi [the ground] , for example offering scholarships to thousands of children and whoever is against them is our enemy. "Betty Bigombe, a Ugandan cabinet minister and former peace negotiator, said:" I do not know if it makes any difference as far as [Kony] is concerned. bringing this to the attention of policymakers, hoping that something innovative will come out of it. "Norbert Mao, Ugandan politician and Democratic opposition party president, expressed his support for the film, explaining that despite some problems, such as implying that Uganda is not trying against the LRA and did not explain how much of the problem in the film was also aggravated by the Ugandan government itself, the film is still "perk positive developments "to the problem, adding that while Invisible Children may not be" the principal analyst of the complex political, historical and security dynamics "of the situation. , "They have the most beautiful nature on earth - compassion."
Journalist Nicholas D. Kristof thanked the Invisible Boys for making the film and delivered his criticism, stating that instead of "white man's burden", when "a warlord continues to kill and torture throughout Congo and Central African Republic... it's a human burden. "He also said that complexity has long been" the main reason for not acting during atrocities "and that Kony remains a threat in neighboring Uganda, so the simplicity of the film" has made the American public more informed "than vice versa, and that if he was "a Congolese villager," he would "welcome these uncertain efforts from scornful mockery from cynical people who do nothing." Foreign correspondent Roger Cohen called it "harshly simplifying and deviating profusely to make valid points: that no effort should be made to catch Kony." British film critic Peter Bradshaw writes that Kony 2012 , regardless of its shortcomings, "landed a tremendous blow.This is a principled, highly effective advertising campaign." Former Gotham Chopra war correspondent says that he understands "instinctive (really irritating)" reactions to movies and campaigns, but "there is great value in the fact that millions of people speak today about the largely unnoticed genocide in Africa. Jane Bussmann, author of 2009 book about Kony and Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, compares this campaign well with the "charity-as-industry culture" as "at least Kony2012 connects suffering with the perpetrators, and urges that young American audiences aim to contact a politician. "Matthew Green, author of 2008 books on Kony and the LRA conflict, The Wizard of the Nile, writes that ICs have" accomplished more with their 30 minute video than diplomatic battalions, NGO workers and journalists since conflict began 26 years ago. "
Jacob Acaye, a former child soldier featured in the film, supports the video and defends its makers. Responding to the Ugandans who said the film was outdated, Jacob stated that, "It is not too late, because all these battles and afflictions are still going on elsewhere." Until now, the ongoing war has been a silent war, people do not really know about it.Now what's happening in Gulu is still happening elsewhere in the Central African Republic and in the Congo.What about those who suffer there? They are going through what we are going through. " noted by Los Angeles Times reporters Lindsay Branham and Jocelyn Kelly that a number of people living in areas where the LRA is currently active previously called for attention and advocacy to be directed at this issue. Julien Marneffe, a worker for Catholic Relief Services at Goma says "this is an undeniable success - and a humanitarian organization working in this field can be happy," but adds "be careful not to over-simplify the problem" and worry that flowers may be old short when "another crisis or another video will be the next online trend, and I'm worried that most people will forget about the LRA problem."
Negative
Since the video launch, Invisible Children has been criticized for simplifying events in the region and has been accused of being involved in "slacktivism", in which a person contributes or takes actions that have no effect whatsoever in addition to making people feel like they are contributing. While the campaign promotes global activism, it has been criticized for providing black-and-white images rather than encouraging viewers to learn about the situation. Mikaela Luttrell-Rowland of the Holocaust Center's Strassler Center and Genocide Studies from Clark University stated that "it is not responsible for rewarding good feelings, simplistic messages on complex history and for treating consumerist awareness that can be exchanged for education." African researcher Alex de Waal accused the film of "hawking dangerous and degrading lies," criticizing the campaign as "naïve" for "lifting Kony into a global celebrity, a manifestation of evil," which may only help him as a terrorist and worship leader. , and called for instead "demystifying Kony - reducing him to a common criminal and a failed provincial politician."
One critic point is that the film gives a misleading impression of the existence and size of the remaining Kony LRA troops. As of early 2012, Kony's followers are thought to number only in the hundreds, and Kony himself is believed to be in the Central African Republic rather than Uganda - a fact that only accepts cursory mention in the video. This issue raises the question of a reasonable intervention of the Ugandan army, which is supported by the video. Since Kony and most of the LRA troops are currently not in Uganda, Ugandan troops need to coordinate with the government and military of other countries where the LRA is active.
Dinaw Mengestu, an Ethiopian American author and African researcher, writes that Kony's real world is "not one click", and a simple solution to raise popular awareness, "a wonderful equation that can only work as long as we believe that nothing in the world happens except we know about it... just work in the farsighted reality of the movie, a reality that deliberately keeps the depth and complexity away. "Amanda Weisbaum from War Child charity says that" getting rid of one person alone does not solve the problem "and the film's focus should be more to help former child soldier. Anne Goddard, president and CEO of ChildFund International, writes that "by narrowing the focus on Kony, by defining such extraordinary success, it gives people a greater sense that the problem [broad counseling of youth globally] can be solved. "UN Under-Secretary-General Radhika Coomaraswamy called for the Kony2012 campaign to divert its donations from supporting military action to arrest Kony in rehabilitation and reintegration programs for former child soldiers. Victor Ochen, founder and director of Uganda's rehabilitation NGO Ayinet, said the campaign "to promote [Kony] or make it famous" is "offensive", in part due to the Cover the Night event (the Atiak massacre by the LRA in Uganda in 1995 and the date of birth Adolf Hitler), adding, "How do you think an American would react if people in other countries wear Osama bin Laden's T-shirt?"
After the film was released, there was criticism in Uganda about its failure to state more clearly that Kony and his troops fled northern Uganda in 2006 and spread across the forest in three neighboring countries. Fred Opolot, a spokesman for the Ugandan government, said, "It is very misleading to state that the war is still in Uganda." Arthur Larok, director of ActionAid in Uganda, said: "This does not sound like a fair representation of Uganda, we have challenges in the country, but of course the perception of a country in war is not accurate at all. Dr Beatrice Mpora, director of the public health organization in Gulu, commented, "There has not been a single soul from the LRA here since 2006. Now we have peace, people return to their homes, they plant their fields, they start their business. which should be assisted by people. "Uganda's Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi launched an online response on YouTube, where he tried to correct the" wrong impression "that Uganda is still at war, and invites everyone to visit the country, ensuring that people will found it "a very different place to be described by Invisible Children". Meanwhile, dozens of Ugandan diaspora members in the United States protested outside the Office of Invisible Children in San Diego, also criticized the video but said Kony represented "only three percent of all problems" in their home country and railed the Ugandan government for being inadequate. In response to Kony's terror and other issues.
The film's mass show in March 2012 in Lira, where one of Kony's worst atrocities in Uganda, is filled with scorn and throwing objects onscreen and on the African Youth Initiative Network group, which plays movies and provides translations. The investigation sparked angry calls to local radio stations by Ugandans who were upset that the film was so focused on filmmakers and Kony while ignoring victims of the conflict, which sparked complaints that the film was "more about whites than Ugandans." Others object to being reminded of the horrors Kony brought to Uganda. Despite negative responses, the organization still plans to show movies in other cities, hoping to avoid this response by providing a context for the film. Some Ugandan commentators have also criticized the video for its purpose of making Kony "famous", even believing that it means "celebrating" him, and for his defense of foreign military intervention to stop him.
Mahmood Mamdani, director of the Institute for Social Research at Makerere University in Kampala, argues that the LRA is "a Ugandan problem calling for Uganda's political solution" and against "the mobilization of millions of people [being] overthrown into other weapons in the hands of those who want to marginalize the territory further this. "Ugandan journalist Rosebell Kagumire says that" the war is much more complex than a man named Joseph Kony. " A more recent show from Kony 2012 at the Pece War Memorial Stadium in Gulu, Uganda triggered a riot where dozens of people were injured. Archbishop of Gulu, Rt Rev. John Baptist Odama, reportedly said that the video "has a poor motive and is directed at triggering anger within the population to cause violence." Margaret Aciro, whose image appeared in a video showing her face mutilated by the LRA, said she "became sad" after seeing it "used for profit."
Father Ernest Sugule, national coordinator of Congolese non-governmental organization SAIPD in Dungu, DRC, stated that the few people there "who have watched Kony 2012 are very important in the film," as he himself is. Charlie Beckett, a media communications expert at the London School of Economics (LSE), said Invisible Children, "has not yet had the capacity to take action beyond that.What will they do with all this energy and interest? thought it would crash and die, I do not think they will catch Kony People will say they bought bracelets and stuck posters on lampposts but that could have a negative effect when it does not really lead anywhere.
Reject Movement
The fame of 30-minute documentary film director Jason Russell was short-lived. After becoming the fastest video in history to reach 100 million views, the popularity of the video is shrinking - in 5 years it has added less than 1/50 views that have been collected in the first 144 hours. For Occupy Wall Street, the climb to the most popular peak of the movement lasts 3 months - from August 2011 to October 2011. There is much speculation about how the movement died. Rick Cohen pointed out that the video "sucks energy from organizing" - people already know what Kony 2012 is so no need to create awareness about it. Cohen also refers to the "counter-narrative" that appears in Uganda. Uganda criticized the movement for releasing false information - claiming that the LRA has no presence in Uganda since 2006. A parody of Invisible Children, Inc., "Visible Kids", criticized nonprofits for misusing donations and paying more of their employees. The Visible Children also criticized Kony's 2012 movement for making Joseph Kony "famous", citing Uganda's opinion that even more supporters are united behind Kony for publicity. The rogue acts of graffiti from followers of motion and lewd acts by creator Jason Russell led to further criticism of the movement. Finally, the nature of the movement as a meme transforms it into a platform that does not appeal to some people to contribute.
Lord Defense Army response
A statement allegedly released by Kony's Resistance Army rebels and signed by group spokesperson and negotiator Justine Nyeko ("Leader, LRA Peace Team") condemned the film as "a cheap and superficial mass panic act to make unsuspecting people. the people of the world are involved in the massacre and murder of the United States in Central Africa. "The statement was obtained by Ugandan journalist Frank Nyakairu, who was received from Nairobi, a Kenya-based LRA representative. It was also reported that LRA abduction rates increased sharply in the weeks since the film was released, although it was impossible to confirm the link between the rise in the LRA and Kony's global fame.
Invisible Children's Response
On March 8, 2012, Invisible Children issued an official response aimed at the criticisms directed at Kony 2012 . As an explanation for the simplicity of the film, they claim that "in their [search] to gain broad public support from nuanced policy, [they] strive to explain conflict in an understandable format." Jedidiah Jenkins, director of ideas development for Invisible Children, responded to new criticisms by saying that they are "nearsighted" and that the video itself is a "tipping point" that "keeps young people concerned about problems on the other side of the planet that does not affect them." Responding to concerns about working with the Ugandan government, Invisible Children explained that they "do not defend any of the human rights violations committed by the Ugandan government or the Ugandan army". They added that the reason why they work with the Ugandan army even though Kony is no longer in Uganda is that troops are "better organized and better than other affected countries (DRC, Southern Sudan, CAR) to track Joseph Kony" and that they want all governments in the region work together to capture Kony. Jenkins stated, "There's a big problem with political corruption in Africa, if we have the purity to say we will not partner with anyone who is corrupt, we can not partner with anyone."
A video titled Thanks, Supporters of KONY 2012 was released on March 12, 2012 to address the criticism directed at the film and to be "completely transparent", according to Invisible Children CEO Ben Keesey. The film begins with Keesey discussing three things that focus on charity, "making movies with compelling narratives, promoting international advocacy, and running initiatives on the ground." He also pointed out that "overhead and travel expenses are crucial to efforts", as part of group management costs, along with going to "thousands of film screenings worldwide, as well as to bring survivors from the Lord of the Resistance Army... to speaking at these events. "Keesey explains how annual charitable expenditures are made, with" 80.5 percent to 85.7 percent of total annual expenditure from fiscal 2007 to 2011 "going towards" 'program costs' - money that directly benefits their purpose, "and finished by urging the parties' interest to ask the group via Twitter, using the @invisible and hashtag #AskICAnything account. Two other short videos featured LRA survivors expressing support for movies and organizations.
The Kickstriker website, a parody of Kickstarter, contains a false appeal to sort out "hire private military contractors from Academi (formerly Blackwater), which will soon be deployed to Central Africa" ​​with a mission to capture or kill Kony. In response, Invisible Children sent the Kickstriker team to stop and stop warnings to remove parody pages, accusing them of "causing public confusion through the use of Visible Children's visible and copyrighted properties" and threatening legal action. According to Wired.com, the legal threat "[has] Kickstriker founder rolled their eyes."
Kony 2012 Part II
Kony 2012: Part IIÃ, - Beyond Famous is a 20 minute video followed up to Kony 2012 . The film was announced on April 2, 2012, to be released within a week. Originally announced to be released on April 3rd, but postponed for two days due to editing issues.
Beyond Famous aims to overcome criticism of the original film and to present more information about the KRA LRA rebellion, including its impact on countries other than Uganda, as well as on the work of Invisible Children and Kony's 2012 campaign. Executive Director and CEO Invisible Children, Inc. Ben Keesey, who told the film, said the sequel was made in two weeks. In a statement announcing the video, Keesey said that Invisible Children wants people "dig deeper into this conflict and actively engage in solutions." Jason Russell, who was hospitalized on March 15 for "temporary psychotic disorders believed to have been brought about by the pressure of success - and criticism - from the first film", was not shown in Part I .
Reception
In a pre-release comment, popular culture expert Robert Thompson said: "The fact is, the story has grown in many strange ways with all the controversy, and its sequel can not really promise that first video - it is telling people something they do not know in advance.Now we will discuss the details, which never cried. "LRA researcher Craig Valters of the LSE International Development department said that the second video" very "failed to answer the criticisms raised by the first film. On the other hand, Mike Pflanz, the East African correspondent for The Daily Telegraph, said the sequel was "a more solid, moving and, finally, accurate presentation of the ongoing battle to capture Joseph Kony" and that , compared to the original video, "new videos written in shades and spreading more general dialogue were heard at the United Nations workshop - displacement, rehabilitation, post-conflict - rather than on YouTube smash."
According to the The Guardian , the sequel "does not seem to capture the public imagination in the same way as previous Invisible Children videos, failing to significantly get into social media websites." On April 16, 2012, it has received 1.7 million views in 11 days, less than 2% of what the first video had in the first five days. Matt Fiorentino, director of marketing at video measurement company Visible Measures, considers the first anomalous campaign that has never been seen before, and although dwarfed by its predecessor, received Beyond Famous is "good enough" when compared to social campaigns ordinary. The Guardian however describes Beyond Famous as "one of the top 25 nonprofit campaigns ever."
Impact
United States
On March 21, 2012, a resolution "condemning Joseph Kony and the cruel guerrilla group for the 26-year-old terror campaign" was presented by Senators Jim Inhofe and Chris Coons. The resolution states that it will support "the efforts of Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic and the latest state, South Sudan, to stop Kony and his Lord's Resistance Army", along with an official statement of support "for US efforts to help regional troops chase militia group commanders. "Overall, this resolution has the support of 34 senators, both Republicans and Democrats.
Support among the senators for the resolution came after the release of Kony 2012 and the next popularity. One of the leaders of the resolution, Senator Chris Coons, became aware of the situation after his daughter asked what he was doing to stop Kony and Senator Roy Blunt getting the information "on the Missouri caucus in St. Louis when a constituent questioned him about Kony". One of the co-sponsors of the resolution, Senator Lindsey Graham, stated that, "When you get 100 million Americans to see something, you will get our attention.This YouTube sensation will help Congress become more aggressive and will do more to cause it to die than all other actions combined. "
Africa
On March 23, 2012, the African Union (AU) announced its intention to send an international brigade of 5,000 military troops "from Uganda, South Sudan, Central African Republic and Congo, countries where Kony's reign of terror has been felt for years. to join in the hunt for rebel leader Joseph Kony "and to" neutralize "him. According to the statement, the mission began on March 24, 2012 and the search "will last until Kony is caught", after which the task force will be dissolved. The effort is led by Uganda and supported by the US with 100 existing advisers there, offering advice, intelligence and training, along with equipment. The Brigade has set up its headquarters in Yambio in Southern Sudan, near the border with DRC, and ordered by Ugandan officials; a Congolese officer has oversight of intelligence operations.
A spokesman for United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (Melissa Fleming) said that the agency welcomed an "unprecedented" initiative to "end cruelty in the region" and urged all involved to respect human rights and minimize risks for civilians. Counter-Terrorism counterpart Uni Francisco Madeira said, "We must stop Kony." ICC chief prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo voiced confidence that the video would "result in Joseph Kony's arrest this year," adding: "That's the impact of the campaign." However, Patrick Wegner, an academic at the Max Planck Research School on Successful Dispute Resolution in International Law, claimed it was "a mistake" to suggest the AU action solicited entirely by Kony 2012, saying that "the idea is much older than Kony 2012 "as plans for the formation of regional anti-LRA military forces have been first reported in the international news media in 2010.
See also
- Children's troops in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Investigation of the International Criminal Court in Uganda
- Resistance of the Lord's Army Resistance and the Northern Uganda Recovery Act
References
External links
- Kony 2012 on YouTube
- Kony 2012 on IMDb
- Thanks, KONY 2012 Supporters at Vimeo
- Kony 2012: Part IIÃ, - Beyond Famous on YouTube
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