A video with an important message

It’s been popping up everywhere on social media sites this week.

An American based charity called Invisible Children has made a compelling video campaign. They want to make Joseph Kony a household name in the hopes that he will finally be captured.

Kony, the head of the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda, has been evading an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court since two thousand and five. He is accused of using child soldiers and being responsible for more than thirty thousand deaths.

Invisible Children’s campaign has managed to spread knowledge of the name outside of Africa. The video has become so popular that musicians, celebrities and even Canadian politicians are talking about it.

According to the globe and mail, Kony might be hiding in the jungles of the Democratic Republic of Congo. It’s believed that LRA is burning villages there and forcing people to join his army.

Last October, President Obama said he would send soldiers to Uganda in order to search for the warlord.

Flickr photo: quazymonkey