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In February 2012, a video produced by an American NGO, Invisible Children, called for the arrest of Ugandan Joseph Kony, leader of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), guilty of countless atrocities, including the recruitment of child soldiers, and wanted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity and war crimes.
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The success of this long spot - 100 million views in just six days - comes at just the right time to legitimize the military campaign that the Obama administration decided a little earlier to launch in eastern Central Africa. It is officially to support the Ugandan army, which is looking for Kony there. In 2017, although the criminal remained untraceable, Donald Trump ended this operation, which mobilized nearly 300 men on the ground. But under the guise of lending a hand to international justice, it favored hidden objectives, at the crossroads of political, economic and strategic interests that this investigation reveals.
Unspeakable underbelly
In 2014, Étienne Huver and Boris Razon, from the investigative collective Slug News, discovered on site that a surprising mix of genres presided over this media and military campaign. Based on their unpublished images, Jean-Baptiste Renaud continues the investigation in Uganda and the United States. He shows that for the Ugandan government, Operation Kony was primarily aimed at silencing its opposition, while the American government on the one hand, and companies and religious groups on the other, saw it as an opportunity to extend their influence.
The documentary thus reveals the opaque links between the NGO Invisible Children, the Ugandan government and evangelical organizations, such as The Fellowship Family. A member of the latter, James Inhofe, Republican advisor for Africa to the American Congress, appears in the famous Kony 2012 video… Based on interviews (a former child soldier of the LRA, former Ugandan employees of the NGO, its current president…), this edifying investigation sheds light on the unspeakable underbelly of an operation with a humanitarian veneer.
American Crusade in Africa
A film by Jean-Baptiste Renaud
Based on an original idea by Étienne Huver and Boris Razon
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