Kony2012 funds would be best spent on former child soldiers, says UN official | Global development

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  • @reka
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    A propos du très controversé « Kony 2012 »

    Kony 2012 and the promotion of “humanitarian” wars
    ►http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/mar2012/pers-m21.shtml

    Kony 2012 and the promotion of “humanitarian” wars
    21 March 2012

    Kony 2012, the 30-minute propaganda video advocating US military intervention in Africa, has become something of a debacle for its creators and media supporters. Millions of people have read and viewed responses debunking the film’s assertions, and some of its early cheerleaders have felt obliged to backpedal and adopt a critical attitude toward it.

    Nonetheless, the Kony 2012 campaign, launched by the “human rights” organization Invisible Children, has provided a pretext for new military actions in the region. The US-backed Ugandan government announced the formation of a new brigade of 5,000 troops on March 16, ostensibly to hunt for Joseph Kony, the leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA).

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    • @odilon
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      Kony2012 funds would be best spent on former child soldiers, says UN official | Global development | guardian.co.uk
      ►http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2012/mar/20/kony2012-funds-rehabilitating-child-soldiers?intcmp=122

      Coomaraswamy is sympathetic to calls for Kony to be brought to account by the international criminal court (ICC), the permanent war crimes tribunal that indicted him in 2005 and last week found Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga guilty of recruiting child soldiers. But she has misgivings about Kony2012’s endorsement of a military solution involving US-backed Ugandan troops, and fears that, should the campaign against the rebel leader descend into a witch-hunt, the phalanx of children surrounding him could come to harm.

      “The focus of the campaign has been on getting Kony,” said Coomaraswamy at a media briefing in London. "We would prefer the focus on the children and the funding going to the children, rather than focusing purely on a military solution.

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