Speak Out: More Efforts to Capture Kony?
Officials recently said capturing the alleged war lord is harder than they people think.
A file picture taken on November 12, 2006 of then leader of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) Joseph Kony answering journalists' questions at Ri-Kwamba, in Southern Sudan. The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo voiced confidence on March 31 ,2012, that Kony will be arrested this year, as he met with the US creators of a viral campaign. Moreno-Ocampo said the California-based Invisible Children campaign, makers of a viral 30-minute online video seen by more than 100 million people, had helped create pressure which will help capture Kony.
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After gaining international attention through a 30-minute Youtube video, Joseph Kony, leader of the Lord's Resistance Army, is still loose in Africa.
Although Americans are pressuring lawmakers and officials to capture Kony, those only familiar with the video might be underestimating what it takes.
Obama administration officials told a Senate subcommittee that efforts to capture Kony are complicated by inhospitable terrain and communication breaks between coordinating countries, according to a CNN report.
Right now there are 100 special forces advisers are hunting for Kony, the report said.
Jessie Gable
3:37 pm on Wednesday, April 25, 2012
I'm moving this blog post over from the Facebook page. Someone who lived for a while in Uganda posted it. "The focus in Northern Uganda should no longer be Joseph Kony the man that oppressed us for 23 years, but it should be on we that were oppressed. I believe that this Acholi problem needs a biblical and African solution of restoring the broken hearted. We urgently need to raise leaders that will give hope to the hopeless. Therefore the kony 2012 Video is not the solution, hope to the oppressed is the solution."
Read the full post here: http://arccuganda.blogspot.com/2012/03/kony-2012-survivors-perspective.html?spref=fb