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Angelo Izama writes in the Monitor Online about the reasons why Joseph Kony, the leader of the Ugandan rebel group Lord’s Resistance Army, has been elusive despite alliances formed against him:

Kony’s fortunes are often not determined by the brutal efficiency of his brain-washed teenage brigades but in the air conditioned boardrooms of statesmen in such capitals as Kampala, Washington, Khartoum, Cairo, and Nairobi.

(Via Guardian.)

You can takepart by watching tonight’s episode of Law and Order SVU, which tackles the issue of child soldiers and a violent leader, who, similar to Kony, has escaped punishment in Africa.