Okay guys...if you read the very top of my blog under the title, you will notice that I said that this is a blog about fashion, love, and life! So this post is on 2 of the 3, Love & Life! I'm not gonna front like I been knew all about this Joseph Kony and the Invisible children situation long....because I haven't! But thanks to Twitter and me following people like @Rihanna @EmilyB @TreySongz & @ChrisBrown, I probably wouldn't have known too much. They all were tweeting and retweeting about this and asking that we just take the time, even if only for a few mins, and watch this Youtube vid on #KONY2012. So that caught my attention and I decided to see what all thee fuss was about, and when I did.....WOW! I was literally floored! Couldn't believe what I was watching and the fact that I have NEVER seen anything about this on T.V. Like I said earlier...this post is about LOVE and LIFE, so if you can find any love in your heart and think about the lives of those invisible children please do what you can to spread the word! I don't know how much this post will help with spreading the word, but I do feel that even if 1 of you read this maybe I can inspire you enough to share this story with someone else. From there, maybe my 1 little effort has snowballed into something more that I probably will ever know! I am going to post the Youtube video below and also post what I read on Joseph Kony on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Kony and also visit http://www.KONY2012.com!
Here's what I found on Wiki....
Biography
Early life
Joseph Kony was born c. 1961[1] in Odek, a village east of Gulu in northern Uganda.[2][4] A member of the Acholi people,[2] Kony is the son of farmers. He enjoyed a good relationship with his siblings, but was quick to retaliate in a dispute,[9] and when confronted he would often resort to physical violence. His father was a lay catechist of the Catholic Church and his mother was an Anglican. Kony was an altar boy for several years, but he stopped attending church around the age of 15.[9] As a teenager Kony apprenticed as the village witch doctor under his older brother, Jamie Brow, and when his older brother died, Kony took over the position.[10] He did not graduate from high school. Kony first came to prominence in January 1986 as the leader of one of the many premillennialist groups that sprang up in Acholiland in the wake of the wildly popular Holy Spirit Movement of Alice Auma (also known as Lakwena), to whom Kony is thought to be related.[2] Their relative loss of influence after the overthrow of Acholi President Tito Okello by Yoweri Museveni and his National Resistance Army (NRA) during the Ugandan Bush War (1981–1986) spurred resentment among the Acholi, which boosted Joseph Kony's popularity.[citation needed]Lord's Resistance Army
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The bulk of Kony's foot soldiers were children.[9] Whilst estimates of the number of children conscripted since 1986 vary, some put the figure as high as 104,000.[9] When abducting the children, Kony and his army often killed their family and neighbors, thus leaving the children with little choice but to fight for him.[9]
By 1992 Kony had renamed the group the United Democratic Christian Army and it was at this time that they kidnapped 44 girls from the Sacred Heart Secondary and St. Mary's girls schools.[11]
Betty Bigombe remembered that the first time she met Kony, his followers used oil to ward off bullets and evil spirits.[12] In a letter regarding future talks, Kony stated that he must consult the Holy Spirit. When the talks did occur, they insisted on the participation of religious leaders and opened the proceedings with prayers, led by LRA's Director of Religious Affairs Jenaro Bongomi. During the 1994 peace talks, Kony was preceded by men in robes sprinkling holy water.[4]
Kony was thought among followers and detractors alike to have been possessed by spirits; he has been portrayed as either the Messiah or the Devil. He reportedly made annual trips to the Ato Hills in Uganda. He would allegedly ascend to the highest of the hills and lie down in the hot sun for days. He would be covered by a blanket of red termites that bit deeply into his skin. Oil from the Yao plant was spread over his body. Then he would enter a cave and stay in seclusion for weeks.[citation needed] Kony believes in the literal protection provided by a cross symbol and tells his child soldiers a cross on their chest drawn in oil will protect them from bullets.[9] Kony insists that he and the Lord's Resistance Army are fighting for the Ten Commandments. He defends his actions: "Is it bad? It is not against human rights. And that commandment was not given by Joseph. It was not given by LRA. No, those commandments were given by God."[13]
The Ugandan military has attempted to kill Kony throughout the insurgency. In Uganda's latest attempt to track Kony down, former LRA combatants have been to enlisted to search remote areas of the Central African Republic, the Sudan, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo where he was last seen.[14]
Indictment
Main article: International Criminal Court investigation in Uganda
On October 6, 2005, the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced that arrest warrants had been issued for five members of the Lord's Resistance Army for crimes against humanity following a sealed indictment. On the next day Ugandan defense minister Amama Mbabazi revealed that the warrants include Kony, his deputy Vincent Otti, and LRA commanders Raska Lukwiya, Okot Odiambo, and Dominic Ongwen. According to spokesmen for the military, the Ugandan army killed Lukwiya on August 12, 2006.[8]On October 13, ICC Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo released details on Kony's indictment. There are 33 charges; 12 counts are crimes against humanity, including murder, enslavement, sexual enslavement, and rape. Another 21 counts of war crimes include murder, cruel treatment of civilians, intentionally directing an attack against a civilian population, pillaging, inducing rape, and forced enlisting of children into the rebel ranks. Ocampo said that "Kony was abducting girls to offer them as rewards to his commanders."[citation needed]
On July 31, 2006, Kony met with several cultural, political, and religious leaders from northern Uganda at his hideout in the Congolese forests to discuss the war.[citation needed] The following day, he crossed the border into Sudan to speak with Southern Sudan Vice President Riek Machar. Kony later told reporters that he would not be willing to stand trial at the ICC because he had not done anything wrong.[citation needed]
On November 12, 2006, Kony met Jan Egeland, the United Nations Undersecretary-General for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief. Kony told Reuters: "We don't have any children. We only have combatants."
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Love and Kisses,
Mimi <3
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