Now this is a viral video

[Gen]

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posted it in case anyone wanted to catch the film.

yes, most of us on here are well aware of what is going on in the rest of the world (contrary to what a few others on here believe)

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: jah_yout</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Gen</div><div class="ubbcode-body">http://www.machinegunpreacher.org/

The true story of one man’s battle to save children in the Sudan.

In Another Man’s War, follow Sam Childers’s remarkable transformation from violent thug to a man of faith, and his ongoing battle to save children in one of the world’s most lawless areas.

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this has been around for a while too...
i'm sure you are aware that the south of sudan recently seceded from sudan...and that armed conflict has flared up from time to time along border regions.. </div></div>

[Derek]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: jah_yout</div><div class="ubbcode-body">a white guy has to be the one to supposedly shed light on this issue before the world...</div></div>

<span style="font-weight: bold">I don't business about his skin colour. Someone, somewhere, somehow had to do something.</span>

[RichD]

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who remember this post from november last year?

Fiyah pan Obama, more blood on his hands

[RichD]

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they discussing this on the radio now.

guy from Uganda calls in and says kony left Uganda from &quot;before 2000&quot; he said the government is using this to round up opposition and to attract aid

[Gen]

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which is why GD is always a comedy and leave mi shaking mi head at ALL times.

[mountaingal]

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this was meant to be a &quot;joke photo&quot; according to IC's founders.

[jah_yout]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Tuff Gong</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: jah_yout</div><div class="ubbcode-body">very strange that this type of subject would get this many views...especially about something as common as an african warlord..</div></div>


<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: jah_yout</div><div class="ubbcode-body">means nothing to me...warlord is a relative term.</div></div>

Relative or not <span style="font-weight: bold">you</span> are the first one that used it in this conversation. </div></div>

yes...both joseph kony and george bush are warlords...
bush is leading kony in the body count totals

[jah_yout]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: J kid</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The power of &quot;one&quot;! </div></div>

seems that way to the naked eye...but often a one has hidden ones behind them

[jah_yout]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Tuff Gong</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: jah_yout</div><div class="ubbcode-body">i didn't support anyone...i don't have an army, air force or navy; </div></div>

You are a misremembering!
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says you...
so you are opposed to kony? does that mean you support museveni?
then you are aware that museveni has had troops in somalia for a while now...and that al shebab bombed uganda because of this...do you support museveni's troops presence in somalia?
you are also aware that the african union is in somalia...
and that even kenya has invaded somalia...
so either several countries in the region feel uncomfortable with a government-less somalia controlled by an extremist radical group or all the countries in the region are US puppets

[jah_yout]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Tuff Gong</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: jah_yout</div><div class="ubbcode-body">sounds fishy...can youtube view counter be manipulated?

very strange that this type of subject would get this many views...especially about something as common as an african warlord...</div></div>

.....<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: jah_yout</div><div class="ubbcode-body">sounds like great organizational work</div></div>

You are therefore answering your own banal questions! </div></div>

lots of organizations have done great work...

what was so special about this guy that half the world has watched his film?
why in the history of african conflicts did this guys become the hottest topic of all time?
what is behind it?


i say oil...huge reserves have been found in uganda...but that's just my stupid opinion...oil &amp; strategic location

[jah_yout]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Derek</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: jah_yout</div><div class="ubbcode-body">a white guy has to be the one to supposedly shed light on this issue before the world...</div></div>

<span style="font-weight: bold">I don't business about his skin colour. Someone, somewhere, somehow had to do something.</span> </div></div>

what is he doing?
what has been done?

as far as i know kony is still on the loose...can he do more than the american military?
because they are already supposedly on the hunt for him...

but before you run to believe everything you see in the media...do some research on uganda over the last 30 years, post- idi amin

[jah_yout]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: RichD</div><div class="ubbcode-body">they discussing this on the radio now.

guy from Uganda calls in and says kony left Uganda from &quot;before 2000&quot; he said the government is using this to round up opposition and to attract aid </div></div>



this seems very plausible--
i would expect a more intelligent analysis from a ugandan than people who are just finding out about joseph kony thru the media telling them that this is a viral video must-watch;

as far as i know from some ugandans...president museveni needs kony the way america needs al-qaeda;

a boogeyman in order to consolidate power/tyranny &amp; trample on the rights of citizens;

now with museveni in somalia &amp; america in uganda (which has discovered huge oil reserves), it makes even more sense

[jah_yout]

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<span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-size: 11pt">Kony 2012 Video Draws Criticism In Uganda </span></span>


KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — <span style="font-weight: bold">The wildly successful viral video campaign to raise global awareness of a brutal Central Africa rebel leader is attracting criticism from Ugandans, some who said Friday that the 30-minute video misrepresents the complicated history of Africa's longest-running conflict.</span>The campaign by the advocacy group Invisible Children to make militia leader Joseph Kony a household name has received enormous attention on YouTube and other Internet sites this week.

<span style="font-weight: bold">But critics here said the video glosses over a complicated history that made it possible for Kony to rise to the notoriety he has today. They also lamented that the video does not inform viewers that Kony originally was waging war against Uganda's army, whose human rights record has been condemned as brutal by independent observers.</span>&quot;There is no historical context. It's more like a fashion thing,&quot; said Timothy Kalyegira, a well-known social critic in Uganda who once published a newsletter called The Uganda Record.

Kony's Lord's Resistance Army began its attacks in Uganda in the 1980s, when Kony sought to overthrow the government. Since being pushed out of Uganda several years ago, the LRA has terrorized villages in Congo, the Central African Republic and South Sudan. The group takes young women into sexual slavery and forces children to commit heinous attacks.

In the years when Kony's men roamed northern Uganda, <span style="font-weight: bold">the Ugandan government was often accused of failing to do enough to capture or kill Kony, with some government investigations showing that army officers profiteered from a protracted war</span>.

Olara Otunnu, a former U.N. diplomat who worked on children and armed conflict, has long accused the Ugandan government of committing genocide in northern Uganda as it pursued Kony.

Invisible Children said in a statement posted on its website that it does not defend any of the human rights abuses committed by the Ugandan government.

But it said: &quot;The only feasible and proper way to stop Kony and protect the civilians he targets is to coordinate efforts with regional governments.&quot;

Ogenga Latigo, a politician from northern Uganda who previously led the opposition in Uganda's Parliament, said Invisible Children's perspective was too narrow to be allowed to define the popular understanding of an insurgency that displaced millions and in which thousands were killed or abducted.

&quot;Theirs is a narrow perspective,&quot; he said of Invisible Children's work. &quot;They just want the war to end so that children can go back home. That's all.&quot;

Latigo said that the Ugandan government, by failing to deploy enough soldiers to prevent the LRA from abducting children over the years, had been partly responsible for the rebel group's success as a recruiter of children.

&quot;Our position was clear. We told the government, 'There are not enough soldiers,'&quot; he said.

Invisible Children said that in its quest to garner wide support of a complicated issue, it tried to explain the conflict in an easily understandable format. It said that many nuances of a 26-year conflict are admittedly lost or overlooked in a half-hour film.

Not everyone is critical of Invisible Children's campaign. Maria Burnett, a researcher on Uganda for Human Rights Watch, said the video has helped draw attention to an issue the rights group has long been working on.

&quot;We hope it will be helpful,&quot; she said. &quot;What it leads to remains to be seen, but the goal to bring pressure on key leaders, to protect civilians and to apprehend LRA leadership is important, absolutely.&quot;

Burnett added that while the LRA issue is important, Uganda's military also needs to be accountable and professional — &quot;and there's still a long way to go in that regard.&quot;

Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, where Kony is wanted for war crimes, told The Associated Press this week he thinks the attention Invisible Children has raised is &quot;incredible, exactly what we need.&quot;

<span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-weight: bold">Kony is now thought to be hiding in the Central African Republic, where he fled before an aerial assault on his forested base in Congo in 2008. [/b</span>]Ugandan officials say the LRA — with some 200 core fighters at most — is weakened and is merely trying to survive.

Invisible Children's new campaign comes five months after President Barack Obama sent 100 U.S. forces to help regional governments eliminate Kony and his lieutenants. American troops are now stationed in Uganda, the Central African Republic, the Congo, and South Sudan, countries where Kony's men operate. Ugandan officials say that, with the help of U.S. troops, the hunt for LRA leaders has intensified in recent months.

Asked what the chances were of eliminating the LRA, Rear Adm. Brian L. Losey, the top U.S. special operations commander for Africa, told journalists last month: &quot;I don't see failure.&quot;

<span style="font-size: 14pt">[b]For some Ugandans, the timing of Invisible Children's campaign is suspicious. Nicholas Sengoba, a political analyst, said there was something &quot;sinister&quot; about Invisible Children's campaign.</span></span>&quot;<span style="font-size: 14pt"><span style="font-weight: bold">The issue has been around for ages,&quot; he said. &quot;We have to ask ourselves why suddenly there is this uproar. I believe that these people have other motives that they are not putting out in the open.&quot;</span></span>___

Associated Press reporter Jason Straziuso in Nairobi, Kenya contributed to this report.

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[Derek]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: jah_yout</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> but before you run to believe everything you see in the media...do some research on uganda over the last 30 years, post- idi amin </div></div>

<span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-weight: bold">It's fair to say I'm the LAST person on here who can be accused of believing everything I read in the media.

I haven't read ANYTHING about this in the media by the way.

And research is my middle name.

What does 30 years and post-Idi Amin have to do with the current topic - a viral video?</span></span>

[RichD]

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what is amusing is dat him a sey dont believe everything yuh read i the media a use media Quote to support his contention