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++World Kony
03/08/2012
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AP-APTN-2230: ++World Kony Thursday, 8 March 2012 STORY:++World Kony- +4:3 Reax to video targeting infamous warlord becoming a viral hit LENGTH: 05:00 FIRST RUN: 2230 RESTRICTIONS: AP Clients Only TYPE: English/Nat SOURCE: VARIOUS STORY NUMBER: 731563 DATELINE: Various - 8 Mar 2012/ File LENGTH: 05:00 IRIN - AP CLIENTS ONLY AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY INVISIBLE CHILDREN - AP CLIENTS ONLY SHOTLIST: IRIN - AP CLIENTS ONLY FILE: Northern Uganda - August 2007 (exact location and date unknown) +4:3+ 1. Joseph Kony, leader of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) 2. Kony with his deputy, Vincent Otti 3. Kony shaking hands with Riek Machar, now vice-president of South Sudan 4. Various of LRA soldiers 5. Wide of LRA abductees collecting water 6. Young LRA girls, one with baby on her back INVISIBLE CHILDREN - AP CLIENTS ONLY FILE: Unknown location - video released online on 5 March 2012 +16:9+ 7. UPSOUND (English) Jason Russell, co-founder of Invisible Children: ++contains jump cut and is partly overlaid with shot 8++ "My son, Gavin has never... I have never really explained to him what I do. He knows I work in Africa but he doesn't know what the war is about or who Joseph Kony is so I am going to explain it to him for the first time today, that is what we are doing." 8. Various of Russell's son Gavin taking his seat 9. UPSOUND (English) Jason Russell, co-founder of Invisible Children: ++off camera speaking with his son Gavin about Kony - starts with jump cut++ Jason: "Can I tell you the bad guy's name?" Gavin: "Yes." Jason: "This is the guy Joseph Kony." (as he slides a picture of Kony to his son) Gavin: "He is the bad guy?" Jason: "Yeah." (slides another photo over) "Who's this?" Gavin: "Jacob." Jason: "Joseph Kony, he has an army, ok? And what he does is he takes children from their parents and he gives them a gun to shoot, and he makes them shoot and kill other people." Gavin: "But they're not going to do what he says because they're nice guys, right?" Jason: "Yeah. They don't want to do what he says, but he forces them to do bad things. What do you think about that?" Gavin: "Sad." AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY Kampala, Uganda - 8 March 2012 +16:9+ 10. Wide of street scenes in Kampala 11. People walking through the streets 12. Various of Rosebell Kagumire, senior editor at Isis-WICCE (Women In Cross-Cultural Exchange), a non-government organisation that documents women's rights violations in conflict and post-conflict, reading news articles about Kony on her laptop 13. SOUNDBITE (English) Rosebell Kagumire, senior editor at Isis-WICCE non-governmental organisation: "When we talk about the LRA, if you talk to any Ugandan this is the most feared group in Uganda, because of the methods they used, you know, when you realise you are losing ground you have to inflict fear in the people, and they used the most brutal methods like killing people, they raped women, they forced children to be child soldiers, they forced women to become their wives in the bush. I met one guy in northern Uganda... there are many stories, but this one particular guy told me when he was a child of 14 years and was forced to kill his parents and join the rebel group." IRIN - AP CLIENTS ONLY FILE: Northern Uganda - August 2007 (exact location and date unknown) +4:3+ 14. Various of LRA soldiers AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY Kampala, Uganda - 8 March 2012 +16:9+ 15. Set-up of doctor Fredrick Golooba, political analyst with the Overseas Development Institute in London, UK 16. SOUNDBITE (English) Doctor Fredrick Golooba, political analyst, Overseas Development Institute in London: "I think it's a good thing that people out there in the world should know what happened in northern Uganda, but is it a good channel to decide what happens to those who are presumed to be guilty of committing atrocities? I don't think that you can subject this to the court of public opinion and resolve it satisfactorily." 17. People in the streets AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY The Hague - 8 March 2012 +16:9+ 18. Sign outside the International Criminal Court (ICC) 19. SOUNDBITE (English) Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC): "Kony is difficult, Kony is not killing people in Paris or in New York. Kony is killing people in Central African Republic, no one cares about him. These young people from California mobilising this effort is incredible." 20. Wide of Ocampo giving interview 21. SOUNDBITE (English) Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC): "They (referring to Invisible Children) are not fighting, they are just putting the right focus: stopping the crimes, arresting Kony, helping people. Perfect." 22. Set up of Reed Brody, Human Rights Watch spokesperson 23. SOUNDBITE (English) Reed Brody, spokesman, Human Rights Watch "Joseph Kony is one of the world's most wanted criminals. This is a man whose forces have burnt villages, massacred hundreds of civilians at a time, and in particular kidnapped young boys and girls and forced them to join his movement and forced them to kill and to kidnap and to rape." 24. Cutaway of notepad 25. SOUNDBITE (English) Reed Brody, spokesman, Human Rights Watch "What we need is a concerted effort by the countries of the region, with outside support, to capture Joseph Kony, but also to protect the civilians who are at risk from reprisals. What we don't need is to create more war." AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY London, United Kingdom - 8 March 2012 +16:9+ 26. Set-up of Rob Williams, CEO of the War Child charity 27. SOUNDBITE (English) Rob Williams, CEO of the War Child charity: "For over 20 years, Joseph Kony and the Lord's Resistance Army have been decimating villages, taking over 30-thousand children into either sexual slavery or into child soldiery, and really preying upon the population in parts of Africa where the central state has not been strong enough to squeeze them down. So we need to take out Joseph Kony, we need to arrest him." 28. Cutaway of Williams 29. SOUNDBITE (English) Rob Williams, CEO of the War Child charity: "And the solution to this is not just arresting Joseph Kony. There's all kind of other things we need to do. But we now have 26 million more people who we can talk to about that - and that's really important." 30. Wide of employees at the War Child charity STORYLINE A video about the atrocities carried out by Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in Uganda has become an internet sensation and gone viral with more than 37 (m) million views on YouTube by Thursday. The marketing campaign is an effort by the advocacy group Invisible Children to vastly increase awareness about a jungle militia leader who is wanted for atrocities by the International Criminal Court and is being hunted by 100 US Special Forces advisers and local troops in four Central African countries. The video, which was released on Monday, is part of a campaign called KONY 2012, and its goal is to see Kony captured - after 26 years in the jungle - this year. Joseph Kony is head of the Lord's Resistance Army, a brutal Central African militia that has kidnapped thousands of children and forced them to become sex slaves, fight as child soldiers and kill family members. The video which has gone viral features Jason Russell, is the co-founder of San Diego-based Invisible Children, an anti-LRA advocacy group, telling his son Gavin about Kony. When Gavin learns about the atrocities committed by Kony he says it makes him "sad," and adds that Kony needs to be stopped. The father-son conversation is one of many startling moments in a 30-minute video that has rocketed through cyber space since its release. Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, where Kony is wanted for crimes against humanity, welcomed the Invisible Children's video and said it had been hard to raise public awareness about Joseph Kony since his indictment seven years ago. "Kony is difficult, Kony is not killing people in Paris or in New York. Kony is killing people in Central African Republic, no one cares about him," Moreno-Ocampo said, but hopes this video will draw the world's attention to the plight of his victims. Reed Brody, of Human Rights Watch, labelled Kony as "one of the world's worst criminals." "This is a man whose forces have burnt villages, massacred hundreds of civilians at a time, and in particular kidnapped young boys and girls and forced them to join his movement and forced them to kill and to kidnap and to rape," he said Brody appealed to the African countries to work together to capture but warned they need to protect "the civilians who are at risk from reprisals. What we don't need is to create more war." The LRA began its attacks in Uganda in the 1980s, when Kony sought to overthrow the government. Since being pushed out of Uganda several years ago, the militia has terrorised villages in Congo, the Central Africa Republic and South Sudan. Rosebell Kagumire is senior editor at Isis-WICCE (Women In Cross-Cultural Exchange), a non-governmental organisation that documents women's rights violations in conflict and post-conflict. Speaking in Uganda, she says that the LRA is the most feared group in the African country. "They used the most brutal methods like killing people, they raped women, they forced children to be child soldiers, they forced women to become their wives in the bush. I met one guy in northern Uganda... there are many stories, but this one particular guy told me when he was a child of 14 years and was forced to kill his parents and join the rebel group," said Kagumire. Another to applaud the work of the Invisible Children is Rob Williams, CEO of the London-based charity War Child. "For over 20 years, Joseph Kony and the Lord's Resistance Army have been decimating villages, taking over 30-thousand children into either sexual slavery or into child soldiery...So we need to take out Joseph Kony, we need to arrest him," said Williams, who believes the video and the awareness that it has created has pushed them one step closer to their goal of capturing Kony. Because of the intensified hunt for Kony, LRA forces - once thousands strong - have diminished in number, splitting into smaller groups that can travel the jungle more easily. Experts estimate the LRA now has about 250 fighters. Last year, Invisible Children began installing high frequency radios in Africa's remotest jungle to help track militia attacks. People in areas without phones can report attacks on the radios to people who put them on a website called the LRA Crisis Tracker. 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