http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_KonyJoseph Rao Kony (pronounced IPA: [koɲ];[7] born sometime between July and September 1961)[1] is the head of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), a Ugandan guerrilla group. While initially enjoying strong public support, the LRA allegedly turned on its own supporters, supposedly to "purify" the Acholi people and turn Uganda into a theocracy.[2] Kony proclaims himself the spokesperson of God and a spirit medium, has nurtured a cult of personality, and claims he is visited by a multinational host of 13 spirits, including a Chinese phantom.[2] Ideologically, the group is a syncretic mix of mysticism, Acholi nationalism, Islam, and Christian fundamentalism,[8] and claims to be establishing a theocratic state based on the Ten Commandments and local Acholi tradition.[9][10]
Kony has been accused by government entities of ordering the abduction of children to become child-sex slaves and child soldiers.[11] An estimated 66,000 children became soldiers and two million people have been internally displaced since 1986.[12] Kony was indicted for war crimes and crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, in 2005 but has evaded capture.[13] The LRA operates in Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic and South Sudan.[14]
