Warlord guilty over child soldiers. Is Kony next? First major win for new international court Ruling will have implications for a Kony trial Tens of thousands of child soldiers captive Human rights advocates said the guilty verdicts against Thomas Lubanga will send out a clear warning.
Picture: AP Source: AP THE International Criminal Court has convicted a Congolese warlord of using child soldiers, a verdict hailed as a legal landmark in the fight against impunity for the world's most serious crimes. Human rights advocates said the guilty verdicts against Thomas Lubanga - the first judgment in the court's 10-year history - should stand as a clear deterrent to armies around the world not to conscript children.
"In this age of global media, today's verdict will reach warlords and commanders across the world and serve as a strong deterrent," the UN's special representative for children and armed conflict, Radhika Coomaraswamy, said. Lubanga will be sentenced following a hearing that will be scheduled later this year. Ugandan man welcomes Kony campaign - ABC North Coast NSW - Australian Broadcasting Corporation. A Ugandan man now living in Grafton is welcoming a social media campaign to raise awareness of the Lords Resistance Army and its leader Joseph Kony.
KONY 2012 is a video created by US non-profit organisation Invisible Children with the aim of 'making Kony famous' and leading to his capture. At last count, the video had been watched more than 78 million times. Emma (who did not want his surname published) fled Uganda in 2005 after being captured by the Lords Resistance Army. He was on a bus when it was pulled over and the driver was shot.
Emma and the other passengers were then taken into the jungle. "What they said was 'if you yell or make any kind of noise they will shoot you,'" he said. "So the best thing was to keep quiet and go with what they said. " Luckily for Emma, one of the soldiers recognised him from their childhood and told him how to escape. Stop Child Slavery. KONY CASE STUDY. 'Kony 2012' Charity Invisible Children Addresses Its Critics. <br/><a href=" US News</a> | <a href=" Business News</a> Copy A 30-minute YouTube film critical of Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony has logged close to 37 million views since Monday, but the charity behind the video is suddenly on the defensive, forced to explain its motives, financial practices and religious affiliations.
Invisible Children Inc. said its intention was to "create a cultural tipping point" even as critics took to the Internet to recount their concerns. "We want to do some epic things because our time on Earth is so short," Jason Russell, an Invisible Children co-founder and filmmaker, told ABC News. Ugandans hit back at Kony 2012 campaign.
Updated Mon 12 Mar 2012, 1:29pm AEDT Ugandans have criticised the viral Kony2012 video, saying it is yet another neo-colonial campaign that portrays Africans as powerless to help themselves.
The 30-minute film was produced by an American advocacy group and aims to raise awareness about wanted war criminal Joseph Kony, the head of the Lord's Resistance Army, and the plight of child soldiers in central Africa. It has been watched and passed on by tens of millions of viewers on YouTube, but has been criticised as simplistic and inaccurate. Kony left a path of destruction and mass murder for more than 20 years, but he is no longer in Uganda and has not been for six years. Writing on his blog, Ugandan journalist Angelo Izama said "to call the campaign a misrepresentation is an understatement". Another Ugandan journalist fighting back via social media is Rosebell Kagumire. What is KONY 2012? Inside the campaign that stopped the world. KONY 2012: The campaign poster by Invisible Children which has been shared by thousands across social media.
Picture: Twitter Source: PerthNow The leader of the Lord's Resistance Army, Joseph Kony, left, pictured in 2006. Picture: AP Source: AP IF you've accessed Facebook, Twitter (#stopkony), Buzzfeed, Google or dial-up in the past 48 hours, you'll know about KONY. Kony 2012: what's the real story? Since Monday, more than 21m people have viewed this film – made by an American charity called Invisible Children – about the plight of children in Uganda at the hands of the warlord Joseph Kony, the leader of the Lords Resistance Army (LRA) guerilla group.
His group is said to have abducted 60,000 children. With its slick Hollywood production values, the film has been an almost instant viral success, dominating Twitter worldwide and having one of the fastest ever take-offs on You Tube. The hashtag #stopkony has had hundreds of thousands of tweets, and millions of people now know something about Uganda and what is happening to children there. Support for the campaign to end the conflict in the country this year is spreading. We've reported on the video here: Invisible Children.
Two LRA commanders have been removed from the battlefield, Maj.
Gen. Ceasar Acellam and Lt. Colonel Vincent Binansio “Binani” Okumu. 44 radio operators from CAR and DR Congo were trained on using the Early Warning Radio Network to protect themselves and their communities in December 2012 LRA killings of civilians dropped 67% from 2011 to 2012 690k 690,000 defection fliers have been printed and distributed across DR Congo and CAR 5 LRA (2 men and 3 women) surrendered in CAR on November 28, 2012 with a defection flier designed and printed by Invisible Children in-hand IC constructed 3 FM radio towers to broadcast "come home" messages over 37,000 sq/km of LRA traveled territory (Mbokie, Obo, Dungu). 89% of LRA escapees credit "come home" messaging as the reason they decided to attempt escape 37 rural communities in central Africa are linked into Invisible Children's Early Warning Radio Network which uses HF long-range radios to give advance warning of security threats RFJ Bill The U.S. 100m 3.7m.
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