On the trail of Joseph Kony
Posted: 13/03/2012 Filed under: African Security, Armed conflict database, Hanna Ucko Neill | Tags: #StopKony, Central African Republic, DRC, Joseph Kony, Kony2012, map, Uganda 2 Comments »
By Hanna Ucko Neill, Global Conflicts Analyst
Can the #StopKony campaign really bring a reviled warlord to justice this year? The 30-minute Kony 2012 video posted on YouTube last week about the Ugandan Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and its abuse of children has been viewed more than 75 million times – and subsequently criticised and defended in the media. But few people have set eyes on LRA leader Kony himself since late 2006, when he met with United Nations humanitarian chief Jan Egeland in southern Sudan just across the border from his hideout in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
