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A video at bringing about the arrest of the fugitive of Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army , Joseph Kony, has gone on the Internet. The 30-minute film, called “Kony 2012”, has had over 15 million views on You Tube and Vimeo and over 150,000 . The video is part of a campaign created by the Invisible Children non-profit group to bring Kony to . The Ugandan warlord is accused of being responsible for more than 30,000 deaths, children to be sex slaves and of exploiting child soldiers. In 2005, the International Criminal Court a warrant for his arrest. The campaign was one of the top trending on Twitter on Wednesday, with news of the new iPad.

The video says: “KONY 2012 is a film and …that aims to make Joseph Kony famous, not to him, but to support for his .” It has picked up the support of celebrities. Hip-hop star wrote on Twitter: "Dear Joseph Kony…We will stop you.” He asked all 6,000,000 of his to forward his tweet to others. However, the video has criticism from those who say it oversimplifies a issue. Canadian political scientist Grant Oyston has started a blog called "Visible Children" in which he writes: “These problems are highly complex…and…aren't of the that can be solved by postering, film-making and changing your Facebook picture.”

 

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