This might turn out to be the most inspiring documentary you will watch all year. A serious campaign is underway to bring down Joseph Kony, the infamous leader of the Ugandan guerrilla group: the Lord’s Resistance Army. The LRA is responsible for an unquantifiable number  of atrocities across Uganda. Human trafficking, brutal rape, and child soldier deployment are commonplace. This is KONY 2102.

The short 29-minute film depicts the life story of a war-scarred child, named Jacob, who is a former LRA child solider. It’s about his struggle for awareness about the complicated issues that Joseph Kony has caused.

The team behind the campaign, Invisible Children, explains:

If the world knows who Joseph Kony is, it will unite to stop him. It starts here. KONY 2012 is a film and campaign by Invisible Children that aims to make Joseph Kony famous, not to celebrate him, but to raise support for his arrest and set a precedent for international justice.

Director, Jason Russell, was equally as passionate about the viral initiative, and described the 20th April as:

The day when we will meet at sundown and blanket every street in every city until the sun comes up. The rest of the world will go to bed Friday night and wake up to hundreds of thousands of posters demanding justice.

April 20 2012 is the day the short film asks that supporters across the world unite to stage their own guerrilla war against Kony. But instead of being armed with weapons like Kony’s 30 000 strong child army, they will be armed with posters and stickers in what could be one of the most diverse political campaigns ever staged.

Here is the film. Share it with others.

[Sources: KONY2012, MusicFeeds]