The night I first met Jacob, he told me what he and other children in northern Uganda are living through. Kony ***** 2012
This movie expires on December 31st 2012, and its only purpose is to stop the rebel group, the LRA, and their leader Joseph Kony. ibid.
He [Kony] takes children from their parents and he gives them a gun to shoot. ibid. father to son
For 26 years Kony has been kidnapping children into his rebel group, the LRA. Turning the girls into sex slaves and the boys into child soldiers. He makes them mutilate people’s faces. And he forces them to kill their own parents. ibid.
It’s been over 30,000 of them. ibid.
It’s simply not an important enough issue on the radar screen of American foreign policy. ibid.
This woman [Anwar Ditta] is fighting a desperate campaign. Four or five times a week she tells her life story to total strangers. She’s spoken like this at almost 400 public meetings. It’s part of a battle to convince the Home Office that she is the mother of three children on the other side of the world so they can join her here. The Home Office doesn’t believe her. World in Action: These Children are Mine, ITV 1981
This boy at 11 years old is too dangerous to be allowed his freedom. For the last five months, Mini has been at this Aycliffe assessment centre in Country Durham. Inside Story: Mini, BBC 1975
‘So I glanced at a box of matches. I was standing there and there was a whole box of matches … I said this is too much temptation. It’s got to happen …’ ibid.