Joseph Kony is a man who is currently hunted by the Ugandan government for darling to speak out against them and for his fight against the politicians. The Ugandan government has been cited numerous times by Amnesty International for human rights violations and for their detention of human rights activists.
Kony runs a camp for children whose parents have either been killed or displaced, but the Ugandan government has demanded that the children be handed over. Kony refused, knowing the fate of these children if they were to return. Some of the children once returned, became soldiers of the Ugandan government. Soldiers trained to kill. Many government and non-government agencies have also documented cases where women were raped and tortured. Under the current regime, Ugandans have a life expectancy of merely 53.1 years, 16 years below the world average.
All over the world, human rights activists have been labels by tyrannical governments as criminals and terrorists. But as Americans we must speak out. We must tell the Ugandan government that no human rights activist deserve to be hunted the way Joseph Kony is, no human rights activist deserve to be treated the way Joseph Kony is treated. And we must tell our own governments to stop supporting governments that treat human rights activists like they treat Joseph Kony.
Justice for Kony
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