POLI 227 Lecture Notes - Joseph Kony, Kony 2012, Sub-Saharan Africa
19 Jul 2012
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News story: kony 2012: global campaign to publicize the war crimes of joseph kony and the lord"s resistance army. Lra was an offshoot of another movement that started in northern uganda with a tribal base of support in northern uganda. Lra is well known for its abduction of children. In 2005 after a reference of the kony lra case to the icc, the icc indicted joseph kony and other members of the lra. Uganda, they though labelling kony as a war criminal would make it even more unlikely that he would stop fighting. The sudanese government turned a blind eye and supported the lra to get back at the ugandan government for doing the same thing with spla in sudan. The lra then lost its sanctuary in sudan, and they have moved to drc and car. Inaccessible areas of sudan, car, and drc are where the majority of attacks are now.
