Joseph Kony

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Joseph Kony Full Name: Joseph Rao Kony Alias: N/A Origin: Uganda Occupation: Commander of the Lord's Resistance Army Hobby: Killing, raping, pillaging Goals: Turn Uganda into a theocratic state. Crimes: Mass murder, rape, abuse of children, torture, and numerous other war crimes Type of Villain: Terrorist / Fanatic

“	I am a freedom fighter, not a terrorist.	„
	~ Kony in a rare interview with Journeyman Pictures.

Joseph Kony is the head of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), a Ugandan guerrilla group. While initially enjoying strong public support, the LRA turned brutally on its 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, primarily of the Holy Spirit, which the group believes can represent itself in many manifestations. Ideologically, the group is a syncretic mix of of mysticism, Acholi nationalism, and Christian fundamentalism, and claims to be establishing a theocratic state based on the Ten Commandments and local Acholi tradition.

He ordered the abduction of children to become child-sex slaves and child soldiers for girls and boys respectively. An estimated 66,000 children became soldiers and two million people have been internally displaced since 1986. In 2005, Kony was indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, but has evaded capture.

Kony himself is believed to be hiding somewhere in the Central African Republic or South Sudan. With Kony in hiding, the LRA's numbers have decreased to just around 100 fighters and no longer have any presence in Uganda. They are believed to be scattered across several countries, including the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, South Sudan, and Chad.