Post by Sivvy on May 26, 2008 21:41:52 GMT -5
[glow=silver,2,300]The Image Of The Invisible[/glow]
[glow=silver,2,300]A War Ignored...[/center][/glow][/color][/b][/size]
The war in northern Uganda has been called the most neglected humanitarian emergency in the world today. For the past 21 years, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and the Ugandan government have been waging a war that has left nearly two million innocent civilians caught in the middle. The Ugandan government has failed to protect its citizens from this rebel militia that has murdered mothers and buried the young, leaving an entire generation of youth that has never known peace.
The LRA rebel movement can be traced back to a woman named Alice Lakwena. In the 1980s, Lakwena believed the Holy Spirit spoke to her and ordered her to overthrow the Ugandan government for being unjust to the Acholis. Lakwena and her followers, known as the Holy Spirit Movement, gained momentum as resentment toward the government increased. When Lakwena was exiled and no clear leader of the movement was left, Joseph Kony, who claimed to be Lakwena’s cousin, took control and transformed Lakwena’s rebel army into the LRA.
Kony’s LRA did not receive the same support as the Holy Spirit Movement because of their extreme tactics. With dwindling support for their cause and heightened government offensives, the rebels resorted to abducting children and indoctrinating them into their ranks. It is estimated that more than 90% of the LRA’s troops are children.
In 1996, as a response to the LRA attacks in the villages, the Ugandan government forcibly evicted thousands from their homes and relocated them into overcrowded camps in hopes of providing protection. But over a decade later roughly 1.5 million individuals live in these camps and struggle to survive among the effects of abject poverty, rampant disease, and near-certain starvation.
To avoid being abducted at night, children take mats and walk miles to sleep in crowded verandas. Who would've thought that so many children...so many beautiful faces could be invisible?
This is not an rpg. This is a harsh reality that the world is ignoring. Inspired by the moving documentary made be three college students, entitled "Invisible Children". The documentary was made by three ordinary people. So if three people can inspire movements like Displace Me and support groups around the world, then what can we do? How far would you go?
Image of the Invisible has one mission: Band together and think of creative ways to raise awarness about the Holocaust in Africa. From YouTube videos to artwork and going to events that support peace in Uganda and the affected areas, we're here to help end a war. Thousands of letters were sent to the president of the U.S. last year. George Bush ignored each and every one of them. But you cannot watch this documentary and tell me it's nothing to worry about. You cannot look at something like this and let it pass you by. If you can, quite frankly, I don't think you have a speck of humanity in you.
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[glow=silver,2,300]Unveil the Image of the Invisible
[/glow] The LRA rebel movement can be traced back to a woman named Alice Lakwena. In the 1980s, Lakwena believed the Holy Spirit spoke to her and ordered her to overthrow the Ugandan government for being unjust to the Acholis. Lakwena and her followers, known as the Holy Spirit Movement, gained momentum as resentment toward the government increased. When Lakwena was exiled and no clear leader of the movement was left, Joseph Kony, who claimed to be Lakwena’s cousin, took control and transformed Lakwena’s rebel army into the LRA.
Kony’s LRA did not receive the same support as the Holy Spirit Movement because of their extreme tactics. With dwindling support for their cause and heightened government offensives, the rebels resorted to abducting children and indoctrinating them into their ranks. It is estimated that more than 90% of the LRA’s troops are children.
In 1996, as a response to the LRA attacks in the villages, the Ugandan government forcibly evicted thousands from their homes and relocated them into overcrowded camps in hopes of providing protection. But over a decade later roughly 1.5 million individuals live in these camps and struggle to survive among the effects of abject poverty, rampant disease, and near-certain starvation.
To avoid being abducted at night, children take mats and walk miles to sleep in crowded verandas. Who would've thought that so many children...so many beautiful faces could be invisible?
This is not an rpg. This is a harsh reality that the world is ignoring. Inspired by the moving documentary made be three college students, entitled "Invisible Children". The documentary was made by three ordinary people. So if three people can inspire movements like Displace Me and support groups around the world, then what can we do? How far would you go?
Image of the Invisible has one mission: Band together and think of creative ways to raise awarness about the Holocaust in Africa. From YouTube videos to artwork and going to events that support peace in Uganda and the affected areas, we're here to help end a war. Thousands of letters were sent to the president of the U.S. last year. George Bush ignored each and every one of them. But you cannot watch this documentary and tell me it's nothing to worry about. You cannot look at something like this and let it pass you by. If you can, quite frankly, I don't think you have a speck of humanity in you.
[glow=silver,2,300]Join the movement.
See the unseen.[/glow]
[glow=silver,2,300]Unveil the Image of the Invisible
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