It was the first week of March when the tear-jerking Kony 2012 video went viral on Youtube and took the entire world by storm more unprecedentedly than any other sensation before in Youtube history. To see such a copious amount of people triggered to instantaneously endorse and join the Kony 2012 bandwagon was so alarming and gut-wrenching. Seemingly every individual in America normally to be apathetic towards any political perils taking place within his/her country was quickened to care about the perils of another country and blindly support the apprehension of a warlord nobody knew anything about aside from what the Kony 2012 video had to say. What is obvious to some but totally unbeknownst to many is the fact that many documentaries, books, and news reports have struggled for decades to galvanize meaningful public awareness concerning the complex history of a mixture of atrocities and tyrants in the African continent. Frustratingly enough, emerging onto cyberspace is this overly-simplistic 29 minute-long video, omitting highly significant historical facts and information about Africa and garnering monumental awareness and support overnight drawing attention to a war criminal whose impact on Africa seems minimal or trivial when compared to that of other criminals in Africa.
Slightly contrary to what Jason Russell would have us believe about Joseph Kony’s army not having a cause and engaging in murders and massacres for mere wantonness, his army does have a cause which from the very beginning has been to overthrow current Ugandan dictator, Yoweri Museveni. The Lord’s Resistance Army was originally intended as a militia retaliating against Yoweri Museveni and his genocide perpetrated on the Acholi people and their villages, of whom and which Joseph Kony is from.
The Lord’s Resistance Army is not even its original name and it did not even originate with Joseph Kony. This takes us all the way back to the 1980s with an Acholi woman by the name of Alica Auma from the village of Obit in Northern Uganda. Alica claimed the spirit of a World War 2 Italian solider named Lakwena had possessed her. Her father took her to various witch doctors but her condition did not improve in any way, if anything it worsened. The spirit of Lakwena compelled Alica to enter the Paraa area of Murchison Falls National Park where she remained for 40 days. It was while sitting there along the raging rapids and waterfalls of the Nile River that she was inspired by the spirit of Lakwena with a mission to become the leader of an army to wage violent mutiny against the tyrannical Ugandan government. We know of this to be true from her many claims of having communicated with the animals of the jungle and with the spirit of Lakwena. After she had returned from the Paraa area of the Murchison Falls National Park she became a self-proclaimed clairvoyant, spiritual healer, and oracle prophesying about victory against tyrannical oppression.
Milton Obote, the man in power previous to Yoweri Museveni, was committing atrocities in the similar fashion to what Museveni has been for the past 2 decades. Originally, Alica’s army was inspired to fight against Milton Obote, but since the governmental atrocities had simply shifted from Milton Obote to Yoweri Museveni with his transitional installment in power, Alica’s army put their focus on Yoweri Museveni. It was on August 20 of 1986, the same year that Yoweri Museveni came to power, that Alica officially began her career. Soldiers of the Ugandan government had taken captive a number of young people from her hometown and detained them in some nearby barracks. The entire continent of Africa is firmly entrenched in superstition and has always bowed down to those who supposedly take claim of supernatural powers. Local families who were desperate for answers and solutions had heard of Alica’s supernatural powers and implored her to take action. She was able to recruit a large army of soldiers. Most sources estimate this army consisted of 18,000 troops. They called themselves the Holy Spirit Mobile Forces or just the Holy Spirit Movement. The army did not have enough guns to go around so many of them used sticks and rocks. Alica had her army men believe that if they chose the right rocks to throw those rocks would turn into grenades and explode after being thrown at the enemy. She also convinced them that if they lived a life in spiritual purity and anointed themselves with water, oil, and shea butter they would be immune to bullets fired at them.
During the tribal revolt of 1987 to 1988 Alica’s army tried to storm Kampala which is Uganda’s city capital. The Holy Spirit Mobile Forces were overpowered by an artillery barrage of the Ugandan military. After suffering the many losses of their troops they were forced to retreat and scatter into the hills.
Shortly thereafter, Alica fled to Kenya where she had died in 2007. After she fled there it was at that time when Joseph Kony, being greatly inspired by her valiance and spiritual leadership, rose to the forefront of the Acholi people’s struggle against the Ugandan government by taking control of the Holy Spirit Mobile Forces and renaming it the Lord’s Resistance Army. All sources concerning Joseph Kony’s and Alica’s relationship claim they are biologically related. Some sources say Joseph Kony is Alica’s cousin while other sources claim he is her nephew.
Both Joseph Kony and Alica have backgrounds in Catholicism and had relatives as priests and priestesses. Joseph Kony and his army’s agenda to religiously cleanse Uganda through theocratic rule and force everyone to obey the Ten Commandments of the Bible will obviously be an idea used by propagandists to taint American’s perspectives on Christianity through exploitation of people’s lack of education in Christian studies. Joseph Kony and his army cannot be considered as true representatives of Christianity considering their Christian beliefs are syncretized with Islamism, African animism and satanic rituals.
Jason Russell claims this current Kony 2012 film is a condensed version of all what has become of Uganda the past 9 years with the last 6 of which not having Joseph Kony being in Uganda. Why has Jason Russell not made any mention of Yoweri Museveni’s Ugandan regime being responsible for displacing approximately 1.5 million Acholi people and killing at least 300,000 people when ascending to power in 1986 according to reports from the Red Cross? For the past 26 years, since the beginning of Museveni’s reign, Ugandans have been oppressed and slaughtered. In the narrative of the mainstream media, victims are only subject to Joseph Kony and the Lord’s Resistance Army. The newly established ENOUGH project along with Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have supported the mainstream media’s narrative protecting Museveni’s image and his tyranny by filling the public’s minds with disinformation. Since the Reagan administration Yoweri Museveni has been a stalwart ally of the United States and has received $45 million in military aid from the Obama administration to participate in combat against Somalia’s al Shabaab militia.
Such truths are not talked about in the mainstream media and are prevented from disseminating amongst the public. So successful the elites have been in keeping the large portions of the public from being alarmed or even curious of the perpetrators much more flagitious and dangerous than Joseph Kony. Some of a large list of people guilty of much more than Joseph Kony are: Yoweri Museveni, Salim Saleh, Paul Kagame, James Kazini, Moses Ali, James Kabarebe, Taban Amin, Jean-Pierre Bemba, Laurent Nkunda, Melse Zenawi.
There are many reports in cyberspace concerning Museveni being in full support of this man-hunt for Kony because of his crimes against humanity. This is quite ironic and hypocritical of Museveni considering that he and his generals were chief supporters of the Congolese warlord Jean-Pierre Bemba and the Movement for the Liberation of Congo. With the Uganda People’s Defense Forces, Bemba and the Movement for Liberation of Congo were responsible for rape, murders, torture, pillaging, and capturing Congolese people in massive numbers under the covert military operation named Effacer le Tableau with its scorched earth policy amounting to genocide against the Mbuti pygmies of Eastern Congo.
You can read more about Jean-Pierre Bemba here: http://towardfreedom.com/home/content/view/1123/1/
It was on September, 5 of 2007 when troops of the Uganda People’s Defense Forces (UPDF) reportedly partnered with Jean-Pierre Bemba in occupying the oil and gold enriched soil of the Semliki Basin on the western shore of Lake Albert. Heavily armed foreign forces also occupied the villages of Aru, Mahagi, Fataki, Irengeti, and the Ruwenzori mountains. The international press and the United Nations Observers Mission in Congo agreed to keep completely silent about this. By September 8, 2007 a copious amount of Ugandan troops amassed on the Congo border as Joseph Kabila and Yoweri Museveni were making oil and gold business transactions with Tanzania. It was alleged that by October 25, Uganda People’s Defense Forces and Bemba’s rebel troops were still occupying Congo. The United Nations Observers Mission in Congo made claims that all Ugandan troops had entirely left all regions by mid-October, but Congolese citizens in eastern Congo were claiming something very contrary.
Since the days of colonialism, Africa has faced much ethnic adversity in which the West has exploited to facilitate their browbeating of the innocent indigenous people. In Rwanda, the Belgian colonial administration intensified pressure between the Hutu, who were inhumanely enslaved as a workforce – and the Tutsi, who were seen as extenders of Belgian rule. From the Rwandan civil war’s beginning in 1990, the United States worked to help depose the Hutu President Juvénal Habyarimana after his 20-year reign and install a Tutsi proxy government in Rwanda. At that time prior to the eruption of the Rwandan civil war, the Tutsi Rwandan Patriotic Army (RPA) led by current Rwandan President Paul Kagame, was part of Museveni’s United People's Defense Forces.
Under the pretext of the Tutsi rebellion, Ugandan armies invaded Rwanda in 1990, in spite of Museveni refusing to grant citizenship to the Tutsi-Rwandan refugees who were living in Uganda at the time, which was something that posed a bit of a counteraction against the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Kagame himself was trained at the U.S. Army Command and Staff College (CGSC) in Leavenworth, Kansas prior to returning to Rwanda to oversee the 1990 invasion of Rwanda as commander of the Rwandan Patriotic Army, which received supplies from US-funded Ugandan People’s Defense Forces’ (UPDF) military bases. The invasion of Rwanda had the full support of the United States and Britain, who provided training by United States Special Forces in collaboration with the United States mercenary business, Military Professional Resources Incorporated (MPRI).
Professor Michel Chossudovsky and Belgian economist Pierre Galand concluded in a report issued in the year 2000 that through financing military expenditure from the external debt of both the regimes of Habyarimana and Museveni, western financial institutions such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank financed both sides of the Rwandan civil war. In Uganda, the World Bank forcibly reduced consumerism and civilian's rights to purchase whatever and however much they needed. Ugandan taxpayer money collected as State revenue was diverted toward funding the UPDF, on behalf of Washington. In Rwanda, the deluge of development loans from the World Bank's affiliates such as the International Development Association (IDA), the African Development Fund (AFD), and the European Development Fund (EDF) were diverted into funding the Hutu extremist Interhamwe militia, the principal combatants of the Rwandan genocide.
Perhaps most chillingly, an unforgiveable breach of agreements signed between the Rwandan government and donor institutions was the World Bank supervising enormous imports of artillery and gunnery that were recorded as bona fide government expenditures and having those arms purchases being negotiated outside the framework of government to government military aid agreements through various private arms dealers and organizations thought to be of peacekeeping troops. Under the pretext of importing civilian commerce and with the World Bank as the overseer, the Habyarimana regime imported approximately one million machetes through various Interhamwe linked organizations and regular trading channels. A multilateral trust fund of $55.2 million dollars was earmarked as reimbursement for efforts of postwar reconstruction, although the money was earmarked not for Rwanda but for the World Bank to service Rwanda’s “odious debts” used to finance calamity. These debts were whitewashed and had disappeared from the books.
Furthermore, while ascending to power Paul Kagame was pressured by Washington to recognize as legitimate or lawful the debt incurred by the preceding genocidal Habyarimana regime. “The swap of old loans for new debts, under the banner of post-war reconstruction, was conditional upon the acceptance of a new wave of IMF-World Bank reforms, which used outside funds for military expenditure prior to the Kagame-led invasion of the Congo, then referred to as Zaire."
Glorified as a beautiful success story of revitalization and advancement following after such a heartrending genocide, Rwanda is a country oppressed under an iron fist and a deftly coordinated intelligence and torture apparatus including political assassinations, censorship of vital information, and vanishings. Gigantic areas of Rwanda were wholly depopulated by the Rwandan Patriotic Army and UPDF as they hammered away at Rwanda beginning in October of 1990. The invasion culminated into a coup d’état that succeeded with broad United States military support in capturing Kigali in July of 1994.
Paul Kagame was Yoweri Museveni’s Director of Military Intelligence in the mid-1980s and it was these two who led the invasion of Rwanda in 1990. Using terroristic tactics, Kagame and Museveni have been blaming their own people and all of their enemies for casualties that both Kageme and Museveni have caused, one of those enemies being Joseph Kony today. The UPDF and the United States have used the LRA threat as a cover-up for massive military operations such as the invasion of Zaire (which was the name for the Democratic Republic of Congo between October 27, 1971 and May 17, 1997). They are now using the LRA threat again!
Zaire was a stronghold of French and Belgian influence under President Mobutu Sese Seko. United States forces – mainly Green Berets from the 3rd Special Forces Group based at Fort Bragg—had actively trained the Rwandan Patriotic Army. As Kagame’s army was being trained by United States military personnel, Kageme and his colleagues had other plans of their own. While the Green Berets trained the Rwandan Patriotic Army the Rwandan Patriotic Army was training Zairian rebels. America's engagement with Rwandan Patriotic Army was portrayed as being exclusively dedicated to serving human rights training. Rwandans studied camouflage techniques, small-unit movement, troop-leading procedures, soldier team development etc. As the training went on, United States officials convened on a regular basis with Kageme and other superior Rwandan leaders, under the pretext of human rights activism, to discuss how to stage a coup d’état. With Yoweri Museveni’s support, Kageme drew up a plan to support a rebel movement in Zaire, headed by Laurent Desire Kabila. This was launched in October 1996. Once the war started in the Congo, the United States provided political assistance to Rwanda. Rebels stormed through the streets of the Congo and impelled Mobutu to flee the capital of Kinshasa in May 1997 whereby leaving Joseph Kabila to seize power to change the name of the country of Zaire to the name Congo. United States government and military to this day still denies that its own military personnel trained and supported Rwandans to wage an insurgency in Zaire. An operation of displacing civilians and putting them in concentration camps was also coordinated in part with the United States planned invasion of Zaire from Northern Uganda and Rwanda.
