Joseph Kony
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 Joseph Kony facts

• Kony (pronounced [koɲ]; born August 1961) is the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), a guerrilla group that formerly operated in Uganda
• While initially purporting to fight against government suppression, the LRA allegedly turned against Kony's own supporters, supposedly to "purify" the Acholi people and turn Uganda into a theocracy
• Kony proclaims himself the spokesperson of God and a spirit medium and claims he is visited by a multinational host of 13 spirits, including a Chinese phantom
• He is considered by some to be the focus of a cult of personality
• Ideologically, the group is a syncretic mix of mysticism, Acholi nationalism, and Christian fundamentalism, and claims to be establishing a theocratic state based on the Ten Commandments and local Acholi tradition
• Kony has been accused by government entities of ordering the abduction of children to become child soldiers and sex slaves
• 66,000 children became soldiers
• 2 million people were displaced internally from 1986 to 2009
• 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
• Kony has been subject to an Interpol Red Notice at the request of the ICC since 2006