Thursday, March 8, 2012

Web star born: Invisible Children’s Joseph Kony 2012 video gets millions of views

Web star born: Invisible Children’s Joseph Kony 2012 video gets millions of views : If Joseph Kony lives in relative obscurity until this week, he is a star on the Internet today.

Video of the atrocities committed by the Lord's Resistance Army Joseph Kony is now viral, accumulating more points of view, apparently million per hour.

The marketing campaign is an effort by the advocacy group Children's invisible significantly increase awareness of the jungle militia leader, is wanted for atrocities committed in the International Criminal Court and hunted intelligence advisers, 100 U.S. and local forces in the four countries of Central Africa.

30 minutes, a group of video, which was released Monday, was more than 21 million views on YouTube on Thursday. The film is part of an effort called the Coney 2012, which aims to Kony and the LRA.

"Kony is a monster. He deserves to be prosecuted and hanged," said Col. Felix Kulayigye, Uganda's military spokesman.

But Kulayigye said that the forces of horses, a thousand times stronger - so degraded that it no longer considered a threat to the region. Due to the increase in hunting Kony and his forces are divided into small groups that can travel easily in the jungle. Experts estimate that the LRA now has about 250 fighters. However, the police kidnapped children, forcing them to serve as soldiers or sex slaves, and even kill their parents or other to survive.

Uganda, Invisible Children and № stopkony were among the top 10 trends on Twitter as one of the words in the world, and the public of the United States on Wednesday night, taking top new IPad or Peyton Manning. The main directions of celebrities use Twitter more often than the rebels on the run.

Ben Keesey, Invisible Children 28 years old woman, director general, said that the virus shows the success of his message resonates, and that the audience feel right to make changes. It was published on the website, www.kony2012.com.

"The basic idea, it just shows that there are rare occasions when problems in the black and white. There are many difficult things in the world, but Joseph Kony and what it does is black and white," Keesey said Wednesday.

The upsurge of attention has also brought with them some of the critical work of Invisible Children on Internet sites, including the expense ratio of direct assistance, its rating Charity Site Navigator, as well as the 2008 photo of three members of an invisible gun at children of troops in the country now known as Southern Sudan.

Invisible Children has refuting criticism on its website.

Ugandan rebel Kony is accused of tens of thousands of mutilations and killings over the past 26 years.

Last year, Invisible Children began installing high radio remote jungles of Africa to help police track attacks in Congo, Central African Republic and Southern Sudan. Those who live in areas where there are no phones can report the attack on the radio for those who put them on your site crisis Tracker LRA.

Efforts to gain support for Invisible Children American political leaders seem to have borne fruit. Last year, the State Department called the Tracker Crisis Group, "a truly innovative tool" for the exchange of information. U.S. military spokesman said that the U.S. military is also aware of the crisis Tracker.

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