ICG EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS on Joseph Kony.
They try to portray Kony as a dire global threat and lay out a list of things (mostly money and military) they need to fight this two bit warlord.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2858893/posts?page=19#19
“There’s no doubt Kony is a bad man”. Define bad. This is a WAR. Bad things happen in a war.
Almost all the coverage about this is biased. I read a long article about this. I commend to all who haven’t read it. Be informed, don’t be a (knee) jerk.
http://www.smallarmssurveysudan.org/pdfs/HSBA-SWP-8-LRA.pdf
(snip)
“It is extremely difficult to obtain factual information about the LRA. Much of the existing voluminous research from northern Uganda is agenda-driven or fails to account for the overlap between LRA and civilian grievances and
perspectives. Because research in northern Uganda and, to some extent, southern Sudan requires the cooperation of the Uganda People’s Defence Force (UPDF), information is often coloured by the UPDF’s own perspective.
This report is based on focused fieldwork in northern Uganda and southern Sudan in 2005–07. The author conducted face-to-face interviews with a range of Ugandan and Sudanese civilians and community leaders. The military
was not present on these occasions and the interviewees were assured of anonymity. Members of the military from both countries, Sudanese politicians, and LRA representatives, including the LRA high command—specifically
Joseph Kony and Vincent Otti—were also interviewed.
In describing the history of the LRA/M–UPDF conflict in Sudan and Uganda, this report seeks a balance that has been sorely absent in previous media and
academic accounts. That the LRA/M can be seen as having arisen in pursuit of legitimate grievances—which at times have been shared by many communities in northern and eastern Uganda—should in no way be interpreted as a
defence of the group’s methods and tactics. Part of the story of the conflict, however, hinges on the use of propaganda and access to information; accordingly,
this report attempts to separate fact from fiction.”