Thursday, March 15, 2012

Kony 2012 screenings stopped in Uganda following public outrage...

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Correspondents say many of the crowd in Lira left early on Tuesday and some threw stones.

But the organisers said the result was a mixture of anger and incomprehension especially about the campaign's strategy to "make Kony famous".

"People kept on getting upset," said Victor Ochen of AYINET.

"They were wondering: 'If this is about northern Uganda, how come it's dominated by non-Ugandans? What is it about now? This is an insult,'" he said.

"And they were saying [that] whoever did this movie was celebrating their suffering." Full story...

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