Joseph
Kony is an Ugandan man and he is the most wanted man in the whole
world by the FBI. He, as the head of the Lord's Resistance Army, also
called LRA, has committed lots of horrible crimes. This year people
are starting a movement called "Kony 2012" in order to do
something to stop him and raise the awareness about this awful
situation. There is even a video by an american film maker that
describes the serious situation in this country.
But
let me explain how bad were his crimes. Infact he has been kidnapping
over 30.000 children for his rebel group, turning girls into sex
slaves and boys into child soldiers. He has killed 100.000 people,
abducted over 70.000 of them and he has forced 2 million of people to
escape from their land. The Ugandan guerrilla group that he leads has
committed atrocities of all kinds: it kills, maims, rapes women and
girls and there were even cases of cannibalism. This is a vision of
wild, barbarism, that has nothing to do with religion.
Some
people think that he is doing this because of his religious beliefs
or of his Alcholi culture. But what is such a awful thing is that he
is not doing this for any real cause but just to mantain his power
and in order to do this he has always used peace speeches to rearm
and murder again and again.
The
Ugandan military has to find him in order to arrest him, but they
need the technology and the training to track him. The U.S.A.
government can help them by sending its army in Uganda but if it
doesn't believe that peope are interested in arresting Kony they will
cancel the mission. And in order for people to care, they have to
know , and they will do that only if Kony's name is everywhere.
The
Invisible Children in his movement Kony 2012 want to make Joseph Kony
an houseold name to bring his crimes to the light. They are targeting
20 culture makers and 12 policy makers to use their power for good.
The
culture makers are famous, they have loud voice and what they say or
do spreads instantly and even the policy makers are connected with
the government and if people see that the government is doing
something suddendly it will become of national interests.
But
they are not the only one that can do something, everyone, everywhere
should make him known with all their means, for example by sharing
the video about him and his actions.
The
creator id Jason Russel, who did it to sponsor this project and to
make people know about Kony. He, after being in Uganda and talking
with a local boy, Jacob, realised how serious was the situation and
decided to do everything that he could to help that boy and the
locals.
He
did his best, for dozen years , and he sought help at the White House
too, and even if they said that couldn't do anything to help them, by
reporting the situation to other people and by sharing the video, the
message travelled around the world having over 70 million of
visualization.
So
the point is: Jason Russel's idea , wasn't just an idea. It has
become the purpose of billion of people that agree with him. They are
normal people but just because they are on this planet, they matter.
So i think that everybody, everywhere should start doing something to
stop this awful situation. Stop being passive and become more active.
