Do you know who Joseph Kony is ?

For those who’s pc wont let you open the link, heres what google had to say about him.

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Tens of thousand of Australians have joined a global cause to make a mass-murdering African military leader “famous” so he can be brought to justice.

Joseph Kony is not famous yet, but an American film-maker has set out to change that with a new documentary titled KONY 2012 that has been viewed more than four million times in the last two days on the internet.

The ruthless leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in Uganda, Africa, Kony and his killers have abducted more than 30,000 children from their families, forcing young boys to murder their parents and become child soldiers and the girls to work as sex slaves.

Advertisement: Story continues below It’s been happening for almost 30 years.

On Wednesday March 7, the video below, produced by the humanitarian group Invisible Children, began being passed around Australian internet users.

It is an incredible piece of movie-making, but the social media campaign that has run in tandem with the film is what has “changed the rules”.

Its aim is to raise global awareness of Kony – to make him famous – “not to celebrate him, but to raise support for his arrest and set a precedent for international justice”.

As the filmmaker Jason Russell explains, less than one per cent of the world knows who Kony is, however, if people knew what he had done, they would demand action.

“The dream would be for Kony to be captured, not killed, and brought to the International Criminal Court to face trial, says Russell, not surprising considering Kony is the most wanted man in the world according to the ICC.

“The world would know about his crimes and they would watch the trial play out on an international level, seeing a man face justice who got away with abducting children, raping little girls, and mutilating people’s faces for 26 years,” says Russell.

And this is the year to make it happen.

Thanks to the efforts of Russell and Invisible Children, the US government last year committed 100 military advisors to join the Ugandan army to help train and co-ordinate Kony’s capture.

But that support could be withdrawn at any moment if public opinion does not keep decision-makers committed.

KONY 2012 may do the trick.

I’ve shared the link on my shop’s facebook page. It isn’t much, I know, but some of my facebook entries seem to get comments from all over the world so who knows, maybe this one will too.

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