It is a 30-minute video, Kony 2012, that was produced by three American videographers campaigning for greater efforts to capture Joseph Kony, the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). The LRA leader and his army of kidnapped child soldiers had fled Uganda six years ago and are now believed to be hiding in the jungles of neighboring countries.
Joseph Kony, a former church altar boy, has pursued an aimless war that has killed thousands of people and at one point forced hundreds of thousands form their homes.
The video, posted to YouTube and Vimeo, was viewed 32,600,000 times within four days of posting. There were criticisms that the film quoted only three Ugandans, two of them politicians, and that it spent more time showing the film-marker's 5-year-old song being told about Joseph Kony the explaining the root causes of the conflict.
Joseph Kony, a former church altar boy, has pursued an aimless war that has killed thousands of people and at one point forced hundreds of thousands form their homes.
The video, posted to YouTube and Vimeo, was viewed 32,600,000 times within four days of posting. There were criticisms that the film quoted only three Ugandans, two of them politicians, and that it spent more time showing the film-marker's 5-year-old song being told about Joseph Kony the explaining the root causes of the conflict.
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