Kony 2012 comes to Gulu

Kony 2012, Invisible Children

In early March, the video Kony 2012 was released on YouTube.  It was seen by millions of people and it went viral.  I could not watch because of digital poverty.  My daughter and her friends shed tears

Invisible no more

and got carried away by the story.  But I told her that Gulu, the epicenter of Kony's Lord Resistance Army atrocities is now peaceful (see blog post November 2011).  The world wondered by Invisible Children (the organization behind the video) revived the film, and subsequently, IC was getting bad press.  So it went to Gulu last April 13

The public few who came

and 14.  It showed the film on big screen in the stadium and sponsored a program where politicians and presidential appointees of Northern Uganda came in big numbers.  IC's CEO in the US came and said that he met with President Obama who expressed support for their
organization.

Invisible Children's CEO Ben Keesey

Imported testimonials came from some Congoloses who spoke in French and their narrations  translated to English and Luo.  The

Gulu Theater performer

Ambassador of IC in Uganda (perhaps that's how IC calls its country executives) admitted that although the LRA is no longer in Uganda, it wants to expose its atrocities in DR Congo, Sudan, and the CAR, and get Kony (the LRA leader) by end of 2012.  The Ugandan government has released a YouTube response - dismissing the video as giving a false impression of the country, yet

Sing and dance with crutches

government dignitaries were at the event and the Chief Guest was the Deputy Speaker of the Parliament.  Some of the orange T-shirted groups had packed lunch while the others, just bottles of water.

High-tech cameras abound.  The world will surely know.

All I can say is the three IC  founders made Gulu's 20-year war known to the world in 2005, and perhaps, it is making Gulu's experienced peace now known to the world.  Check this link, too.  http://in2eastafrica.net/a-tale-of-a-child-mother-in-acholi/