Kony ‘will be arrested this year’

[MindMover]

Source: Times of Malta

The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said he has “no doubt” that fugitive African warlord Joseph Kony will be arrested this year because the international spotlight has helped boost the hunt for the Lord’s Resistance Army leader.

Luis Moreno-Ocampo said the fact that 100 million people watched the first video about Kony’s crimes in just six days showed that “the world today understands that justice has to be done” – and he expressed hope that the world will put a spotlight on other fugitives including Sudan’s president and a Congolese army general to help bring them before the court.

“Twenty years ago, no one was talking about justice,” he said in an interview. “Now it’s a new thing.”

There are now 121 countries that are parties to the International Criminal Court, or ICC, but Mr Moreno-Ocampo said even countries that are not parties, like the US, Russia, China and India, have supported referrals to the permanent war crimes tribunal – and the US is supporting the collection of evidence for possible future prosecutions of crimes in the Syria conflict.

Read more: http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120408/world/Kony-will-be-arrested-this-year-.414607

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[Spacedog1973]

1. I hate this sort of thing

Where public opinion pushes actions that are irrelevant to the over arching issues that are current in countries such as Uganda. Anyone who has visited Uganda or has friends there, will know that the living conditions, the political oppression and corruption has a far more significant effect on the vast majority of Ugandan's lives than Kony currently does.

To me, this is a prime example of emotion overreaching reality and it sucks.

[MindMover]

2. Yeah sure, we do not want to be the catalyst for.....

change, especially to help advertise a monster.....who abducts women and children to be in his private army.....with due respect.....GFY....

[jade3000]

6. Sort of agree, but an arrest would still be a good thing

An arrest would at least be some good would come out of that strange video.

[Posteritatis]

8. I don't think it would necessarily be related to the video, though

The pressure on getting rid of the guy one way or another's been on the rise for years; the whole Kony 2012 thing was an attempt to profit from that, not an attempt to hurry it along.

A lot of the work in dealing with the LRA isn't going to get that close to normal news headlines, if just because the western world simply doesn't care. Even the interest spike from the video was back to normal levels within about a week; online outrage over stuff like that has a pitiful shelf-life.

[Alamuti Lotus]

13. there's a phrase for this sort of thing -- "a *little* knowledge is a dangerous thing"

some people hear something on Youtube or whatever, now they're suddenly all fucking experts about it with the zeal of a convert. complete absence of any kind of historical context or the like, but it feels good and, and, and, how can you not feel the same and as strongly as they do? what kind of monster are you? bah. amateurs.


and I'm annoyed that I even feel any sort of compulsion to add this 'disclaimer' -- not that Kony should be nominated for sainthood or whatever, but in the league with Hitler & Osama or whatever else? pure propaganda. The current dictator of Uganda, Musaveni, is no saint himself and probably deserves some of this very same attention for the war crimes his pro-US regime is committing in the Congo and Somalia, but that's not even being talked about--which is really a microcosm of the genius of modern propaganda.

[Spacedog1973]

4. Alsoil since you have interent and access to youtube, I suggest you actually use it

To find opinions from actual real-life Ugandans, I'm sure none of whom you know or have ever spoken to, because you know better, right? I won't guide you, just do a search and learn something.

[PassingFair]

5. DU doesn't tolerate personal attacks.

No matter HOW involved in, or knowledgeable you are about,
an issue.

Just saying.

[Voice for Peace]

7. the system (DU) seems to be working

it seems there are way fewer personal attacks than before.

[uncle ray]

9. oh, did we finally get enough facebook likes?

[MindMover]

11. There are now 10,000 more eyes looking for this monster....

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because of social networking and governments applying the right amount of arm twisting, like financial aid stopped if you do not participate in finding this asshole......so yes facebook had some influence.....but mainly it was the homophobes in California that started this ball rolling again......

[starfox172]

10. can we arrest dick cheney yet?!

[MindMover]

12. He is tooo well protected, anyway he just got a new heart.....