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In over twenty-five countries, many children are abducted and beaten into submission to be used in real life wars. A very famous viral video called “Kony 2012” was trying to get people to help catch the Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony, who has kidnapped thousands of children over the past twenty years. Child soldiers are defined as: children under the age of 18 who are recruited by state or non-state armed groups and used as fighters, cooks, suicide bombers, human shields, messengers, spies, or even for sexual purposes.

Kony 2012 is a short documentary produced by Invisible Children, released on March 5, 2012. The film demonstrates the Invisible Children’s plan to capture Joseph Kony. It describes the actions he and his army have done, including forced recruitment of child soldiers, and the attacks on the innocent villages and people. After eight years of demanding justice for the LRA affected villages, the campaign Kony 2012 was created.The purpose of the film was to help bring awareness to the cause, and make fugitive Joseph Kony globally known. It was really just an experiment, they did not know if an online video could actually raise awareness and help bring the world together to stop Joseph Kony. After about six days the video had over 100 million views.

The Forever War by Joe Haldeman is a classic work of military science fiction depicting a war between the human race and an unfamiliar alien entity known as the Taurans. The overall plot line follows a fairly typical path, but Haldeman’s real genius is realized through the interactions that take place between the protagonist, William Mandella, and the Earth he returns to between military operations. Developing beneath the ever-present war of the two species lies a much subtler conflict between generations of human thought and culture. Brought about by the way troops are transported in space, time dilation creates an interesting dichotomy between the early soldiers of the war and the rapid evolution of human society and culture remaining on Earth. The Forever War questions the stability of human nature by creating a scenario where its fluidity is exposed through an invariable link to time. The expression of human nature changes as cultural and personal identities adapt to new situations; viewing these changes through Mandella, we begin to see how different expressions of human nature can impact human nature itself.

The Kony 2012 video viewed by nearly 100 million people stunned the world and brought back into focus the egregious use of children as combatants. The blatant terror and savagery taking place in a moral vacuum of sorts, where thousands of children are maimed, raped, killed and abused is a microcosm of a problem afflicting many parts of the world. It even spurred some U.S. Senators to act upon the decades of crimes against humanity committed by the notorious Lord’s Resistance Army in Northern

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Over 1.8 million people in Northern Uganda have been displaced, in fear of attacks from the Lord’s Resistance Army, into internally displaced people’s camps. This extremist group has been causing havoc in Northern Uganda by ransacking villages, kidnapping children, and brutally killing innocent people. Their violent acts are fueled by their radical religious beliefs. The notorious Joseph Kony founded the Lord’s Resistance Army, also know as LRA, in 1986, with the intentions of creating a new government based on the Ten Commandments. Since 1986, he has created a powerful army of almost 3,000 soldiers, most of them who are children. They specifically target the Acholi people, an ethnic tribe located in Northern Uganda and some parts of Sudan.

Child soldiering has been and continues to be a problem in countries all across the world, however primarily focused in the East. Uganda has faced many instances where child soldiers were being involuntarily imposed into the war. The most recent incident involving Joseph Kony, rebel leader of the Lords Resistance Army, brainwashing millions of Ugandan children and forcing them to fight in the war. Imagine waking up and going through your daily routine, which has become almost a second nature. It’s normal for me to wake up, eat breakfast and do homework but the routine for child soldiers includes drugs and violence that is unimaginable to people like me who have never been exposed to the atrocities of war. These children had their lives stripped

In today’s day and age, children from all over the world are real soldiers in conflicts instead of playing toy soldiers. These children are being denied their childhood and instead are given a violent and gruesome role to play in brutal conflicts. These children are fighting wars that they had no responsibility in creating. Children are fighting in wars created by their elders. Children are replacing their toys with guns, like AK-47’s and instead of having a chance to attend

The country of Uganda is a very dangerous place where many civilians are killed daily and children are abducted and taken as child soldiers. There are many groups that rebel against the Ugandan government one that is very well known is The Lord’s Resistance Army. The Lord’s Resistance group of rebels in Uganda that claimed that the holy spirit has ordered them to overthrow the ugandan government. The most recent known leader of this group goes by the name of Joseph Kony. Kony has kidnapped over 30,000 children to strengthen his army, forcing the boys to become soldiers and the girls to become sex slaves. This group capture those who can be useful to them, including children strong enough to carry weapons. The captives are tied together and marched to camps where they are violently indoctrinated and turned into soldiers, cooks, or sex slaves. Captives are often forced to

The Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) is a rebel group that abducts children to use as fighters and sex slaves; it attacks schools, hospitals, and communities in Uganda, South Sudan, Central African Republic, and DRC. Invisible Children is an organization that protects children who are in danger of the LRA in central Africa. It has created the LRA Crisis Tracker to locate and broadcast the LRA’s attacks. Also, they use Early Warning Network radios that allow DRC and Central African Republic communities to notify others of LRA attacks. Throughout the years, Invisible Children has convinced many LRA members to surrender by giving them instructions to safe reporting sites. It established Community Defection Committees to heal victims of the LRA, such as child soldiers. With the help of NGOs and programs that ensure security and children’s rights, humankind can end the recruitment of child soldiers. These solutions should be introduced to more vulnerable communities to prevent disaster and preserve the safety of

Kony 2012 was a film produced Invisible Children which went viral overnight. The video gained 31 million views in a single day and since has gathered almost over 99 million view on YouTube. The campaign was a 30-minute video made by filmmaker and Invisible Children co-founder Jason Russell can be considered a political documentary by traditional standards. The political documentary intended to persuade bystander viewers to hold certain beliefs about Kony, a leader of the rebel militia group the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda. Viewers were asked to act immediately to raise awareness through social media, local campaigns and political advocacy to capture the rebel leader who kidnapped children. While the film raised a

Imagine being snatched from your bed in the middle of the night and forced to commit horrific war crimes at only 7 years old. In Uganda, this sadly isn’t an unusual occurrence. Children and their families live in fear of being captured and made into child soldiers against their will. Led by Joseph Kony, the Lord’s Resistance Army has abducted over 30,000 children in Uganda and forced them to fight in war. These children are forced to become brutal killing machines, and lose touch with their livelihood, morals and ultimately their childhood. A student at MHS should care about the child soldiers in Uganda because children are the future of a country. If children grow up in inhumane conditions and trained to be violent from a young age, they will grow up into antagonistic adults that our generation will have to deal with later on in life.

of ensuring that vulnerable populations can live free from violence and exploitation. Offering opposing views, I also focus on the positive response from millennials throughout the world. The rally around “Stop Kony” created an opportunity for a lone organization to inform the world of the fear and danger Joseph Kony had inflicted upon the people of Uganda. Unfortunately, Kony had not been captured by the conclusion of the campaign; however, the organization was influential

Nothing is more powerful than an idea, whose time has come, whose time is now. The short film Kony 2012 opens with that statement, provoking the more than 100,000,000 viewers on the idea to stop Kony. Kony 2012 was brought into light by a group called Invisible Children. Invisible Children (IC) seemingly died out only less than a year after the virality of the video. But what was Kony 2012? It was a movement to push the works of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) leader, Joseph Kony, into the mainstream society in attempts to stop his cruel actions toward children in Uganda. Although co-founder of Invisible Children, Jason Russell may have had kind intentions by asking for donations and even creating the short film, people often ask themselves, “What happened to Kony? Was anything actually done?” And because of that, the foundations of