The activist group behind the Kony 2012 viral video has said it will launch a sequel today. Invisible Children, based in California, promised more details and context than the first film, which urged grassroots campaigners to press politicians and the military to hunt down Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony.
The half-hour film broke records, with more than 100 million views in less than a week, but provoked fierce debate and criticism over its slick style and simplification of the issues. It caused anger in northern Uganda, where a public screening descended into scuffles and stone-throwing.
Jedidiah Jenkins, Invisible Children’s director of ideology, told Reuters a Kony 2012 Part II video had been designed for an international audience with more details on his Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and more voices from the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where the LRA is based. Kony 2012 had been accused of implying that the warlord was still menacing Uganda. – (Guardian service)