Le réalisateur de la vidéo "Kony 2012" arrêté nu à San Diego. Obama Takes on the LRA. 'Kony 2012': Two sides to being a digital media sensation - latimes.com. In the voice-over introducing his video "Kony 2012," Jason Russell tells a worldwide audience, "The game has new rules. " The human rights activist's words seem fulfilled by the phenomenal response to his video about the murderous African warlord Joseph Kony: More than 58 million views had been recorded just four days after its YouTube release Monday. But the response to the video also confirmed that every digital media sensation also invites a large, if not equal, reaction, with the Kony production provoking hundreds of video retorts, uncounted Tumblr posts, countless journalism critiques and millions of comments on Facebook and Twitter.
VIDEO: Kony 2012 targets Uganda militia leader PHOTOS: The cruelty of Kony's army Russell and his fellow activists said they created the video determined to end the reign of Kony, whose Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) has abducted thousands of children for exploitation as soldiers and sex slaves. James.rainey@latimes.comtwitter: latimesrainey. "Kony 2012" : cette étrange campagne qui sent le barbouze - Vu sur le web. De nombreux internautes ont reçu ces derniers jours une vidéo, renvoyant vers une campagne baptisée KONY 2012 et appelant à l’arrestation et à la traduction en justice pour crime contre l’humanité de Joseph Kony, chef d’un groupe d’un groupe de rebelles extrémistes ougandais.
Chef du groupe rebelle "L’Armée de résistance du Seigneur" (LRA), Joseph Kony est effectivement un criminel, recherché depuis 2005 par la Cour pénale internationale pour crimes de guerre et crime contre l’humanité. Son groupe armé s’est donné pour mission de renverser le président ougandais Yoweri Museveni et d'instaurer une dictature chrétienne, basée sur la Bible. La LRA est également connue pour sa barbarie, ses massacres de civils, ses enlèvements d’enfants, ses viols, destructions, pillages… Elle serait composée à 80% d’enfants soldats, pris à leur famille et forcés à se battre.
Des professionnels du buzz Rien d’étonnant donc, à ce qu’une campagne appelant à son arrestation soit lancée. The Lord’s Resistance Army: End Game? The Ugandan army’s attempt in December 2008 to crush the LRA, originally an insurgency in northern Uganda but now a deadly, multinational criminal and terror band, by destroying its camps in north-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) went badly wrong. Joseph Kony, the group’s leader, escaped and quickly organised reprisals that left hundreds of civilians dead in the following months. The U.S. -backed Operation Lightning Thunder became a campaign of attrition, as the Ugandan army began hunting small, scattered and highly mobile groups of fighters in thick forest.
It followed them into South Sudan and the Central African Republic (CAR) and scored some early successes, but the operation lost steam in mid-2010, allowing the LRA to go on plundering villages and seizing hundreds of captives and new recruits in the tri-border area. As the UN Security Council agreed on 14 November 2011, this must stop. The reasons for military failure are at root political. To the African Union: 1. 2. 3. Support #StopKony, but don’t do so blindly. NOTES: This was originally written at 7:00am in the morning, so it’s not the most coherent post. I also write with the assumption that you’ve seen the video in discussion. Lastly, this is just my account and my perspective. I’m not an Africa expert or a political scientist; I only sort of know a bit about NGOs. To read something more eloquent from an expert, check out a guest post on Foreign Policy. Yesterday, Invisible Children released a new video on the urgency to capture Joseph Kony by the end of 2012.
Like most of their videos, it spread like rapid fire, reaching average Americans, major A-list celebrities, and foreign policy advisors. All today, my Twitter feed has been blowing up non-stop with people’s mentions of the video and calls to support #KONY2012 and #StopKony. It’s not that I think they’re a bad organization. What am I donating to? My first confusion was the funding and resources of IC. Speaking of Ugandans, where are they? I then learned the term “White Man’s Burden.”