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it's not just the lra. it's every armed group and the military and the uganda and everyone except i'm going venture the united states has not yet joined the epidemic of sexual violence. >> sexual violence within the u.s. military. >> exactly. >> so maybe i can also add a i did mention to your question. i mean, this is a obviously a very endemic issue and prevalent and hard to deal with. i have seen things on ground that work. i met women who literally go to community and rescue other women and take them home. give them shelter and a space to talk. the need for rehabilitaion is great. the need for housing and shelter and food and substance and work and agency is great. there are congolese in this case who do this and incredibly brave for the work they do. these women have i think grown in reputation have been recognized and honored. i hope there's many more of them. that would be one thing. i think the rehabilitaion on education are incredibly important to show that these women are productive member of socie
it's not just the lra. it's every armed group and the military and the uganda and everyone except i'm going venture the united states has not yet joined the epidemic of sexual violence. >> sexual violence within the u.s. military. >> exactly. >> so maybe i can also add a i did mention to your question. i mean, this is a obviously a very endemic issue and prevalent and hard to deal with. i have seen things on ground that work. i met women who literally go to community and...
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so do they count as lra? how many lra are there? if you ask the residents in congo, a town that's surrounded or has been surrounded by lra who's in lra, they'll point to people in the town and say that girl's in lra because she was with them for two years. that boy killed a man, now he's being rehabilitated by the catholic church, but we won't have anything to do with them. nobody knows. probably a few hundred. there had been many more. and the small size of the group belies their destruction. eastern congo, northeastern congo -- well, half of congo, everything that's not kinshasa, basically, in the west, it's a forest, a largely virgin forest the size of western europe with a road. i mean, south carolina, where i'm from, has way more paved roads than all of congo, and congo is 50 times bigger. very remote. very heavily populated. there's 70 million congolese as far as we know. this armed group is sort of the entire eastern congo is fair game for the lra, and other armed groups, but the lra in particular. they cause far more devasta
so do they count as lra? how many lra are there? if you ask the residents in congo, a town that's surrounded or has been surrounded by lra who's in lra, they'll point to people in the town and say that girl's in lra because she was with them for two years. that boy killed a man, now he's being rehabilitated by the catholic church, but we won't have anything to do with them. nobody knows. probably a few hundred. there had been many more. and the small size of the group belies their destruction....
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galvanize attention to the coney lra phenomenon, the call for his arrest among other measures. tens of millions of hits online and i think was both appreciated for how widely they got the word out especially among young audiences but also how it may have simplified the issue are not fully portrayed the complexity of the issue. so i was just wondering in terms of both publication and advocacy, what did you think of that effort? >> i don't want to tackle it too much. that came out while we were working on the book if i remember. and i sometimes to talk about my artwork, and i have all but of artwork at the end showing army of god. tom pauken high school kids, i asked, you know, who kony is. they all shake their head just now. this book wasn't out yet but they have seen the kony 2012 videotape. i didn't realize that many people did. they seem to be all about it. >> for over simple find a complex issue, because we made a comic book about it, we are all guilty of the same. i am conscious of the criticism of invisible children. for the record those guys were out there when i was out
galvanize attention to the coney lra phenomenon, the call for his arrest among other measures. tens of millions of hits online and i think was both appreciated for how widely they got the word out especially among young audiences but also how it may have simplified the issue are not fully portrayed the complexity of the issue. so i was just wondering in terms of both publication and advocacy, what did you think of that effort? >> i don't want to tackle it too much. that came out while we...
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after an hour, they reached this stream, but the tracks disappeared into the water. >> no lra.is mission. they do go off on operations like this, but they prefer to stay in the background, keeping a low profile is part of the u.s. strategy. >> they're the lead. they've always been the lead. we're relatively new here. we've only been here just about a year. it's really an african problem. it's being handled by africans. >> reporter: colonel kurt crytzer flew with us over the seemingly endless jungle where the area they're searching is as big as texas. he took command of the u.s. special operations mission here not long after president obama decided to send in troops 18 months ago. >> the environment is some of the most unforgiving on planet earth. when you get to the jungle, 50 feet in, you disappear. >> reporter: you're like a ghost. >> you're like a ghost. >> reporter: recently the ugandans and the americans temporarily suspended their hunt in the central african republic because of political unrest. but not before ugandan soldiers killed kony's chief bodyguard close to where
after an hour, they reached this stream, but the tracks disappeared into the water. >> no lra.is mission. they do go off on operations like this, but they prefer to stay in the background, keeping a low profile is part of the u.s. strategy. >> they're the lead. they've always been the lead. we're relatively new here. we've only been here just about a year. it's really an african problem. it's being handled by africans. >> reporter: colonel kurt crytzer flew with us over the...
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way you would an animal. >> right now we are searching for the tracks. >> footprints. >> marks of the lraion for the past three years has been finding kony, and he's one of the ugandan army's top trackers. the footprints are the first sign they've seen of kony's army in six days. as they follow the trail, the soldiers whispered so as no the to give away their positions. after an hour, they reached this stream, but the tracks disappeared into the water. >> no lra. >> reporter: there were no green berets on this mission. they do go out on operations like this, but they prefer to stay in the background, keeping a low profile is part of the u.s. strategy. >> they're the lead. they've always been the lead. we're relatively new here. we've only been here just about a year. it's really an african problem. it's being handled by africans. >> reporter: colonel kurt crytzer, a veteran of 23 years flew with us over the seemingly endless jungle where the area they're searching is as big as texas. he took command of the u.s. special operations mission here not long after president obama decided to send
way you would an animal. >> right now we are searching for the tracks. >> footprints. >> marks of the lraion for the past three years has been finding kony, and he's one of the ugandan army's top trackers. the footprints are the first sign they've seen of kony's army in six days. as they follow the trail, the soldiers whispered so as no the to give away their positions. after an hour, they reached this stream, but the tracks disappeared into the water. >> no lra....
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. >> margaret lra hager, better known asila. jenna is on the phone.. >> this is what you're missing. >> is this what she has to look forward to? this is what happens when you name your daughter three names. >> so you're nineays in to motherhood. what have you learned? >> not much, but a lot. i mean, i've learned that you can love somebody in a totally different way. i'm close to crying, of course, you know me. i'm totally crazy about h and i don't even really like the color pink and there's pink all over my apartment. i lihings to be really neat and the's bottl and things all over. and we're just happy as can be. >> oftentimes when we speak to a brand-new mom, we neglect the brand-new dad. how is henry doing? >> he's doing great. he's a really modern dad. he was taking a conference call while holding the baby yesterday. but we're just having so much fun. he read the first book to her that don nash gave us. i cried. >> well those hormones kick in. >> good ready for "good night moon" about 100 times. >>>>ut i to song, jenna. >> exactly. >> my favorite t
. >> margaret lra hager, better known asila. jenna is on the phone.. >> this is what you're missing. >> is this what she has to look forward to? this is what happens when you name your daughter three names. >> so you're nineays in to motherhood. what have you learned? >> not much, but a lot. i mean, i've learned that you can love somebody in a totally different way. i'm close to crying, of course, you know me. i'm totally crazy about h and i don't even really like...