My purpose today is talk about Joseph Kony and Kony 2012 and raise the awareness about the child army and child kidnap. This presentation will hopefully give you more ideas for this discussion this afternoon.

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Good afternoon, everyone. I’m happy to be here to share my views to all of you today. My name is Donny Ko. My purpose today is talk about “Joseph Kony “and “Kony 2012” and raise the awareness about the child army and child kidnap. This presentation will hopefully give you more ideas for this discussion this afternoon. I’ll break down this presentation into three parts: first, the introduction of Joseph Kony; second, the action called Kony 2012; third, the critical problems of this action and my feelings.

Joseph Kony is the most wanted criminal in the world today. He is the head of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), a Ugandan guerrilla group. 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. This is the reason why the bulk of Kony's foot soldiers were children. Now, as we know, Kony is a bad guy definitely, and he’s been around a while. Actually, he was indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court in 2005 on 33 charges including murder, enslavement, rape, pillaging, and forced fighting, he has left Uganda for the bush; his whereabouts are unknown. Therefore, the US has been involved in stopping him for years. U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) has sent multiple missions to capture or kill Kony over the years. And they’ve failed time and time again, each provoking a ferocious response and increased retaliative slaughter. The issue with taking out a man who uses a child army is that his bodyguards are children. Any effort to capture or kill him will almost certainly result in many children’s deaths, an impact that needs to be minimized as much as possible. 

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I guess most of you didn’t know who Kony is before I mentioned about this. Just same to me, but how can I know about this? Actually I saw it through the facebook. One day, when I opened my facebook all I saw was everyone sharing this  called Kony 2012. So I decided to check it out because like many people out there I knew nothing about Kony. It is a very powerful and well-made video, was produced by a group called Invisible Children. The goal of Invisible Children is to capture Joseph Kony at the end of 2012. Let’s achieve this goal and ...

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