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Ben Affleck Lends Star Power on African Atrocities

He and 'Washington Post' columnist hear tales of LRA brutalities

By John Johnson, Newser Staff

Posted Jan 27, 2012 1:04 PM CST

(Newser) – Joseph Kony and his Lord's Resistance Army have been terrorizing central Africa for years, "but the net around him tightens," writes Michael Gerson in the Washington Post. Gerson accompanied Ben Affleck, who founded the Eastern Congo Initiative, to the region to hear... Read full story »

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He and 'Washington Post' columnist hear tales of LRA brutalities

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