Campaign to bring Uganda's Kony to justice heats up

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/21/us-usa-kony-idUSBRE83K03A20120421

(Reuters) - Starting with grassroots service projects to create buzz and public support, activists out to stop notorious Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony spread out in U.S. cities on Friday in a campaign aimed at justice half way around the world.

In Los Angeles, three dozen high school girls removed weeds, trash and graffiti from their campus. The girls were among small groups of activists who, inspired by the viral "Kony 2012" video, worked to attract media before a bid to paper cities from New York to San Diego overnight with anti-Kony art and posters.

Kony, who proclaims himself the spokesman of God and a spirit medium, has been accused by African governments and the African Union of ordering his Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) to abduct more than 65,000 children over the last quarter century to become child soldiers and sex slaves.

The group behind the U.S. project, Invisible Children, is seeking to generate public support to arrest Kony despite recent setbacks - including criticism of its portrayal of the complex conflict in Uganda, the Central African Republic and Democratic Republic of Congo and the mental breakdown of its key filmmaker.