About the film:

For 23 years, the government of Uganda and a rebel group called the Lords Resistance Army, led by
a man named Joseph Kony, has engaged in Africa’s longest war. In recent years, peace was seemingly
within reach, largely due to the Juba Peace Talks that began in July 2006. However, despite a
ceasefire signed between the LRA and Ugandan government, efforts toward peace through the Juba
Peace Talks were stalled on several occasions by Kony’s refusal to sign the final peace agreement.
Kony’s absence at the peace agreement signing on November 29, 2008 proved his promises to be
futile and ultimately disabled the peace talks. Furthermore, the ICC has obtained evidence that Kony
used the ceasefire during the peace talks to regroup, regain strength and resume child abductions.
Joseph Kony is the world’s first individual indicted by the International Criminal Court for crimes
against humanity.

Since September 2008, hostility in the Orientale province in DR Congo and Western Equatoria in
South Sudan has reached a feverish pitch. In apparent desperation and a renewed will to spread
terror to DR Congo, the LRA murdered over six hundred and abducted more than one hundred and
sixty children to fight amongst its ranks. More than 104,000 Congolese have been displaced since
Christmas in attempts to escape the LRA forces. A civil war, originally contained within Uganda’s
borders, has now evolved into a widespread regional crisis. Invisible Children, in concert with other
policy organizations including Resolve Uganda, The Enough Project, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty
International, now believes an international effort to apprehend Kony and rescue his child soldiers
is the most viable way to end the most neglected humanitarian emergency in the world today.