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Originally Posted by Ben_in_Canada
I'll be happy if one of the celebrities (if you can call em that) can make a video that goes back 20-30 years explaining who Kony is and where he came from.
We all know (now) what he has done and nobody is going to give him a free pass on that one, but why did he do it to begin with???
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If memeory serves me right his Aunt, who may or may not have been his real aunt but he claimed her, started a political movement to protest the exclusion of their tribe from Ugandas goverment, plus the usual complaints about corruption etc, when she passed on he took over and it morphed into a 'freedom fighters' group.
It is usefull to remember this all took place when Uganda was deeply unstable with the overthrow of Amin plus the ongoing Hutu Tutse troubles that to some degree spilled over. It is quite possible that it all started with more laudable aims but it has devolved into basically into a criminal gang with little political ambition.