Joseph Kony is infamous for his atrocities and crimes against humanity in Uganda and neighboring countries and now the group Invisible Children is trying to make him famous. Kony is one of the most sought after war criminals and the hope is by bringing attention to him the whole world will engage and finally hunt him down and let justice be served. His Kony’s Lords Resistance Army brutalized the people of Northern Uganda for 25 years, abducting children and turning them into child soldiers and sex slaves. An entire region and generation were brutalized and broken. Now Kony has fled from Uganda and has escaped into the Congo. He continues his senseless killing and the U.S. has even sent troops to help Uganda’s military track him down. A couple of years ago we met some of the child soldiers who had escaped and were being prepared to return home at Worldvision’s Children of War Rehabilitation Center in Gulu, Uganda. Their stories are painful but they are also hopeful. Here is the video we produced for HDNet World Report:
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