Joseph Kony

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JOSEPH KONY

Joseph Kony one of the worst terroist after Osama Bin Laden and here are some facts about this terrible man.Joseph Rao Kony (pronounced IPA: born around about July/September of 1961) is the head of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), a Ugandan guerrilla group. While initially enjoying strong public support, the LRA turned on its own supporters, supposedly to "purify" the Acholi people and turn Uganda into a theocracy. Kony proclaims himself the spokesperson of God and a spirit medium, has nurtured a cult of personality, and claims he is visited by a multinational host of 13 spirits, including a Chinese phantom. Ideologically, the group is a syncretic mix of mysticism, Acholi nationalism,

JOSEPH KONY

and Christian fundamentalism, and claims to be establishing a theocratic state based on the Ten Commandments and local Acholi tradition. He ordered the abduction of children to become child-sex slaves and child soldiers An estimated 66,000 children became soldiers and two million people have been internally displaced since 1986.Kony was indicted for war crimes and crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, in 2005 but has evaded capture. The LRA operates in Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic and South Sudan.

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