Ugandans say Kony film is "misleading", "too late", "irresponsible"

[Jeremy]

In the town of Gulu, where Kony's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) was once focused, community health director Beatrice Mpora told the(London) Daily Telegraph Kony no longer reigned in the region.

"There has not been a single soul from the LRA here since 2006. Now we have peace, people are back in their homes, they are planting their fields, they are starting their businesses. That is what people should help us with."

Kony's army fled Uganda six years ago and the strongman and his fighters are now spread throughout many neighbouring countries, it was reported.

Ugandan journalist Rosebell Kagumire agreed with Mpora, saying, "This paints a picture of Uganda six or seven years ago, that is totally not how it is today. It's highly irresponsible."

Read more of the article here: http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/ugandans-say-kony-film-is-misleading-too-late/story-e6frfku0-1226295428056#ixzz1ojtahQxd

[Johnny Appleseed]

maybe this will open peoples eyes about how easily they themselves and the hollywood elite are duped

[Lucille]

There is no deterring the American Empire. Look out, Africa, because Freedumb is on the march (http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/107339.html).


What could all of this mean? Is it possible that US military and foreign policy goals could be pushed through using humanitarian propaganda films produced by government-affiliated NGOs? To ask the question is to answer it, sadly, in this era of NED, IRI, NDI, Freedom House, etc.

What do they want; what are they pushing? According to the excellent analysis linked above, nothing short of US domination of Africa through the expanded presence of its AFRICOM and denial of Chinese access to the resource-rich continent. Much as the Sudan/Darfur issue was much more about breaking off a US-friendly micro-state in the oil-rich south than humanitarianism, so too this seems to be much more about broadening the AFRICOM presence in Africa, this time to support a US-friendly dictator, Uganda's General Yoweri K. Museveni (and, again, to capture African resources).

[QuickZ06]

Shocking :rolleyes: