Angelina Jolie: I don’t know anyone who does not hate Joseph Kony

The film has had its share of supporters and detractors.

Jacob Acaye, the
child at the centre of the film, who was taken prisoner by Kony’s LRA in
2002, said
: “Until now the war that was going on has been a silent
war. People did not really know about it.

“Now what was happening in Gulu is still going on elsewhere in the Central
African Republic and in Congo. What about the people who are suffering over
there? They are going through what we were going through.”

The Obama adminsitration also
congratulated the “hundreds of thousands of Americans who have
mobilised to this unique crisis of conscience.

Critics argue Kony and his diminishing troops, many of them kidnapped child
soldiers, fled northern Uganda six years ago and are now spread across the
jungles of neighbouring countries.

“What that video says is totally wrong, and it can cause us more problems than
help us,” said Dr Beatrice Mpora, director of Kairos, a community health
organisation in Gulu, a town that was once the centre of the rebels’
activities.

“There has not been a single soul from the LRA here since 2006. Now we have
peace, people are back in their homes, they are planting their fields, they
are starting their businesses. That is what people should help us with.”

Footage from Reuters

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