King’s to screen documentary ‘The Rescue’

For Immediate Release
Further information: Contact Joseph Giomboni
Public Relations Office, (570) 208-5957

King’s to screen documentary ‘The Rescue’

February 9, 2010 – King’s College will host a free screening of the documentary profiling rebel leader Joseph Kony and the untold story of Uganda’s abducted child soldiers. The film, titled “Invisible Children: The Rescue of Joseph Kony’s Child Soldiers,” will be shown at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 23, in the Burke Auditorium of the William G. McGowan School of Business on North River Street.

The screening will be followed by a question and answer session with representatives of Invisible Children, a non-profit organization dedicated to raising awareness of and ending Africa’s longest war and rescue Uganda’s child soldiers. Parking will be available at on-campus lots.

The documentary focuses on Kony, leader of the rebel group Lords Resistance Army (LRA), and the war on the children of Northern Uganda. For more than 20 years, the LRA and Uganda government have been at war, but peace efforts stalled due to Kony’s refusal to sign a peace agreement.

In 2008, the Ugandan government launched a military operation to defeat the LRA and capture the rebel leader. The LRA retaliated by attacking civilians, while abducting hundreds of children to fight for the rebel cause. As a result, more than 100,000 children have been displaced, and 500 being murdered.

For further information on the screening, contact Delight Yokley, director of diversity at King’s College, at 208-5898 or e-mail delightyokley@kings.edu. For more information on the film, visit www.invisiblechildren.com.

King's College is a Catholic College sponsored by the Congregation of Holy Cross.