Invisible Children to release yet another Kony video

Apr 03, 2012

A new film on LRA fugitive leader Joseph Kony is set for release today, Invisible Children has said

By Vision Reporter and Agencies

The activist group behind the Kony 2012 viral video has said it will launch a new film on the Lord Resistance Army (LRA) chief, Joseph Kony on Tuesday.

Invisible Children, the American-based NGO said on Monday that the new film would give more details and context than the first, which urged celebrities such as Oprah Winfrey to pressure politicians and the military to hunt Kony.

The half-hour film provoked fierce debate and criticism over its simplification of the issues. It caused anger in northern Uganda, where a public screening descended into scuffles and stone-throwing.

Ugandan Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi also came out strongly against the video saying Uganda is not in conflict as the Kony 2012 tried to depict.

“Kony is truly an evil criminal,” Mbabazi stated, describing the warlord who mutilated thousands, killed innocent people, forced children into war, used young girls as sex slaves and forced children to take arms against the government.

“Joseph Kony is not in Uganda. United Nations and CIA agree that Joseph Kony has not based his criminal organisations in Uganda since 2006.

“Uganda is not in conflict. It is a modern developing country which enjoys peace, stability and security,” he assured, and explained that it is from this that Lonely Planets declared Uganda as the best place to visit in 2012 in the world,” Mbabazi explained in a video posted on YouTube.com.

Jedidiah Jenkins, Invisible Children's director of ideology, told Reuters a Kony 2012 Part II video was expected to be released on Tuesday.

It had been designed for an international audience with more details on Kony's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and more voices from the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where the LRA was currently based, he said.

Jenkins was speaking at a meeting of Hollywood insiders in Los Angeles in honour of Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, which is seeking Kony's arrest on war crimes charges. He is accused of recruiting child soldiers.

Moreno-Ocampo introduced attendees to Jenkins and encouraged them to support online video activism.

"I love Invisible Children. I love them," Moreno-Ocampo told Reuters after hugging Jenkins at the dinner. "Their video is making a huge change in stopping Joseph Kony, I believe."

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