Tuesday's Dateline: Hunting Kony

Dateline reports on the Joseph Kony internet video sensation and updates the recent story searching for him in the jungle.

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In just a few days, a film highlighting the atrocities committed by Joseph Kony has become a worldwide internet sensation and brought renewed attention to the man described as 'Africa's most wanted'.

In 2010, Aaron Lewis from SBS's Dateline was the first journalist permitted to travel with Ugandan troops as they trekked through the jungle searching for Kony, who's evaded capture for over 20 years.

His Lord's Resistance Army has kidnapped 10,000 children, forcing them to become child soldiers or sex slaves, and killed thousands more people.

Aaron met some of those who'd managed to escape after terrible ordeals, and got an insight into how he's evaded capture for so long in the vast central African jungle.

On Tuesday's Dateline at 9.30pm on SBS ONE, he revisits that report and looks at the Kony 2012 campaign, as it gains huge popularity, but also attracts criticism over its motives.


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