Uganda has experienced internal conflict for decades, especially in the North. The Lord’s Resistance Army rebel group, led by Joseph Kony, threatens the country, routinely abducting children to serve as soldiers and sex slaves. TransAfrica has called on the United States to put pressure on the Ugandan government to hold perpetrators of human rights abuses accountable. Once hailed as the stronghold of stability in the region, Uganda seems to be heading towards increased repression and declining democracy, with PresidentMuseveni ruling for almost 25 years despite substantial discontent among the population.KONY2012: Powerful Propaganda for U.S. Military Intervention
Thursday, March 22, 2012 at 11:39AM 
By: Adisa A. Alkebulan, Ph.D.*
Kony 2012, produced by the “charitable organization” Invisible Children (IC), has touched off an unprecedented international outcry.
The San Diego based organization, who has been tied to several Christian fundamentalist organizations in the United States, maintains that the aim of the short film is to make Joseph Kony, Ugandan rebel leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), the most famous man in the world and assist the Ugandan government in bringing about his capture by the end of 2012.
Several Christian fundamentalist organizations that backed vile anti-gay legislation in Uganda are also sponsors of this film.
Unfortunately, the film’s simplistic storyline of the very complex nature of the conflict does far more in the way of providing the United States cover for its military objectives in Africa than it does in helping the children of Uganda.