I'm really not sure about this Kony 2012 video. There is zero context and it doesn't even try to explain the current situation with the LRA. Particularly disliked the implication that the war is still ongoing in northern Uganda simply because it was too complicated (not really!) to explain the LRA are now in neighbouring countries and in tiny numbers (less than 200) and that Uganda is at peace and has been for several years. Obviously this has major implications for the film's solution to the problem - the Ugandan army (itself accused of terrible human rights abuses against civilians) should arrest Joseph Kony. How will they do that if he is in the DRC, as he seems to be at the moment, and the Congolese government won't let the Ugandans in?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-news-blog/2012/mar/07/kony-2012-video-viral-invisible-children
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