What happened to… Kony 2012 part 1
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Global News podcast What happened to…? Erica Vella revisits Kony 2012, which aimed to shed light on the Ugandan militant who founded the Lord’s Resistance Army.
On this episode of the Global News podcast What happened to…? Erica Vella finds out what happened to viral video, Kony 2012, which aimed to shed light on the Ugandan militant who founded the Lord’s Resistance Army.
Dominic Akena grew up in a small village in Patongo, Uganda; his childhood was spent outside playing with other children in his village.
“We made slingshots and we would go boat and we’d go fishing and things like that,” he said.
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“I would play lots of different kinds of sports; I would do track and field. So I just remember being really happy as a kid: all this green space, just being absolutely worry-free. You wake up every morning, wake up (and ask), what are we doing today?”
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In 2001, when Akena was seven years old, he remembers hearing a lot of commotion early one morning.
“We could hear people screaming in the distance. … My mother (brought us) into the woods. We didn’t know what this was,” he said.
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