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Joseph Kohny Research Paper

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A few months ago, we watched a little movie in the geography lesson. We watched often movies about world crisises, so this wasn’t very special. But this movie touched me, it made me simply speechless. I never heard of it before and that is what shocked me the most. This movie was about the man who is on the first place of the international criminal list. This movie was about Joseph Kony! You might not know who Kony is so I will first tell you who Joseph Kony is, second I am going to tell you about the invisable children who are tortured by this man and I’ll finish with what we can do against it. Joseph Kony is the leader of the rebel group the L. R. A. in Uganda, the Lord restistances army. For 26 years Kony has been kidnapping children, to make the girls sex slaves and the boys child soldiers. He makes kill them their own parents, and if there is someone not strong enough on in his army he makes them kill each other. The L. R. A. is responsible for 1000 murders every week! And he has kidnapped over a 40,000 children! Maybe the worst thing of it all is: He isn’t doing it to for a reason, he is only doing it to maintain power. This man has to be stopped! The only problem is, 99% of the people have no clue who Kony is …show more content…

The L. R. A. still exists. He changes his tactics often, so it is very hard to catch him. This story of all those childrens made me simply speechless and I hope it made you too. Over the years the awarness of this situation has grown, but it is still not finished because Kony still isn’t done justice! You might think rigth know, yes it is very sad that those children has to live like that, but what can I do about it? Who am I to end a war? But let me tell you, who are you not too. You can make a change, you can give money to an organisation or you can help spread the story of all those children all over the world. There is power in numbers, if everyone knows it there has to be done

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