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"It's hard to look back on some parts of human history, because when we heard about injustice, we cared, but we didn't know what to do. Too often, we did nothing. But if we're going to change that, we have to start somewhere. So we're starting here, with Joseph Kony. Because now, we know what to do. Here it is. Ready?"



Joseph Kony is the #1 war criminal on the ICC (International Criminal Court, The Hague) records. He's the leader of a Ugandan guerrilla organisation called the LRA, the Lord's Resistance Army.

He's been abducting children and forcing them to be sex slaves (if they're girls) or child soldiers (if they're boys) for 26 years. The problem is, nobody knows who he is. Hundreds of thousands of people in the US and all over the world have taken action and let the world leaders know that they know about Kony, and care about the Invisible Children he's hurting. Currently, some US forces are in Uganda, advising and assisting the local armed forces to work against Kony and the LRA.

So what we need to do first and foremost, is to let people know. There are more people on Facebook today than there were on this planet 200 years ago. So share this video. Spread awareness. The goal of project Kony 2012 is to get the LRA leader arrested and the children back to their homes by 31st December, 2012.

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