KONY. To stray off the beaten path for a moment, The New York Times reports on the remarkable meeting between a UN official and the extremely reclusive Joseph Kony, leader of the almost indescribably brutal and horrifying northern Ugandan rebel group known as the Lord's Resistance Army. Kony is wanted by the International Criminal Court on charges of crimes against humanity; Fast Leon Goldberg occasionally covered this story for TAP. This 2005 Human Rights Watch report givens some background on this conflict, which has brewed in the country's North for nearly twenty years. (Sidenote: Forest Whitaker, currently earning raves as Idi Amin in the movie The Last King of Scotland, is developing a film about the LRA that he plans to direct.)
At the very least, the Times piece is worth a read.
--Sam Rosenfeld
