What Is The Kony 2012 Campaign? 7 Things You Should Know...
March 9 2012, Published 7:00 a.m. ET
By Amber Goodhand - Breaking Celebrity News Reporter
The Kony 2012 movement is spreading like wildfire and with more than 32 million views on Invisible Children's viral video, Breaking Celebrity News is bringing you an explanation of what Joseph Kony is all about and why awareness is being brought to this subject.
Invisible Children is a non-profit that uses film, creativity and social action to end the use of child soldiers in Kony's rebel war and restore Lord's Resistance Army-affected communities in central Africa to peace and prosperity.
Here are seven things you should know:
7. Kony is one of the world’s worst war criminals and the campaign is intended to make him famous — not to celebrate him — but to raise support for his arrest and to set a precedent for international justice.
6. In the past 20 years, at least 30,000 children have been abducted and used as sex slaves and child combatants in Uganda and Kony is responsible for spearheading the brutal kidnapping and brainwashing of the children.
5. Kony is the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), which he founded in 1987, and he calls himself a prophet who claims to speak the word of God, prompting his followers to obey his every command and justify horrific acts such as the abductions and murder of children.
4. Joseph Kony, 50, was born in Uganda and is thought to have at least 42 children and more than 60 wives.
3. In May 2010 President Barack