with businessmen ready to exploit them. this man for example on the left. he appears in footage shot in 2014 at a security meeting in oval. that day he was handed what was clearly a confidential map. he refused our requests to film it and with good reason. i don't remember if it was the map was addressed to the colonel of the american armed forces she. said mark feels some this is mark pearson. apparently he's a cultural adviser. but what a cultural advisor be doing and. that goes and why entrust a cultural advisor with an american military map. 4 years later i looked into who mark pearson really was. before following the american military into the area he was employed by jim diamond's a multinational diamond operation. it boasts turnover of some 300000000 euros with mines and prospecting projects all over africa including one in the central african republic. but the only area of diamond exploration officially declared by the company is in the west of the central african republic one and a half 1000 kilometers away from mobile on the other side of the country. so what was one of jem diamonds former employees doing here in a region that harbors a wealth of gold and diamond deposits. in kampala the ugandan capital i needed to find out more about who was really running the country. you know where we must have any power in a coup in 1906 to consolidate his grip on power he purge the country of many rebel groups. joseph coney's however was spared. the creation of this state. only a member of the opposition. talk to me about this angle of the story. when as president cut open my dance of on i come from to do so living to do that on was a creation of the government and to fight and that will. have that i have to state power with those for the well when i used the word train it was devastated you want ice that never killed anybody it's a creed we've been receiving that if you use it you don't you would have been badly if they lent him it it didn't have the power as in about it out for themselves. without those of course. the ugandan administration would not be able to make that justification but it needs more built trust systems from the united states it means that needs more weapons and it needs more financial resources and diplomatic partnership with the united states how would you be able to make that narrative without being presence of course of course. that brings us to the least known and least documented part of the story. on the pretext of driving out just of kone the ugandan army committed horrific atrocities inside its own country. between 19062004 most of any as army engaged in a bloody crackdown in northern uganda. officially it was hunting down the l r a. n officially it was crushing resistance to this move from the actually people the ethnic group to which joseph koni belonged and which had dominated the previous government. of my village a young man called the church was complaining a lot the only took him behind one army uniform and they came back and said this one of the rebel. want to show you today that these are would be that they were so they take in ladies others they don't because on battery and the shut in with a kit for selling chili mothers it toward late and it told to go and say shut up really think well do this and. this very incident was detailed in the 1991 amnesty international report. we haven't a single incident where the u.p.d. it was accused of intentional image and i'm asking people are you familiar with the 2005 human rights watch report about this conflict. no human rights watch. you know. because in their report which is the most exhaustive. they refer to torture. rape. full killings. on both sides on the r. a side and also on the beauty of sites so it's not in the case of possible to have our own human rights commission. but you do agree that for instance. 2005 report by human rights watch the world's a pretty strong wing full killing torture this is not lights where. some of them. some of them just one little these are not verified yet would have cases over matter matter of one person. people. and intuitional. why was the united states desperate to support the ugandan regime. despite its abuses despite the authoritarian rule of most of any president for more than 3 decades or was it because the agent ugandan autocrat was providing a few services to his american godfather. it's true that that made it one don't present in the way they say that for too long. as we speak you learn not to feign so much. when you were number 2 for being sent to my that american officials can progress in parliament to support deployed abroad. if you need somebody to be involved to help in fighting. terrorism and a place like somalia which is celtic and it was so many is willing to do that sending ugandan soldiers. i think that's a very easy decision for us to make regardless of anything else that was submitted does you know we've been. and can weigh in on me when late i quote the couple that. will put the show the way they stayed in top job or a bit i made it comes at the back and i've been that well maybe it's the been about the above it could double that and what the bleep troops since the incident so you and i because. america made it so good we screwed it. yes we're coming once. none of this was mentioned in the kone 2012 video. not a word about the ugandan regime about president museveni 4 about the war crimes committed by his army. why not. and what exactly was invisible children's role. when they say they're helping the widows or orphans or so on what are these really do and. those are the sorts of questions that always occur in my mind. when across from probably about 2 years before their big viral video and. i found their website and look at them and read what they said they were doing. ok so something about it felt very off to me. in their level of access to the region of northern uganda around 2005 northern uganda was completely sealed off by the ugandan army the only people who got in especially people with camera gear sophisticated camera gear such people did not get into northern uganda without the express permission of the ugandan government jason russell and his team they were in there because the ugandan government want them to be in there so why. the small in geo was purportedly working to save orphans when in fact it was promoting one of the most corrupt regimes in africa. this is a radio h.q. where we coordinate all the security information for the southeast of the central african republic. the newsroom. every day we have a security round in the morning and another in the afternoon dark and. in concrete terms it was nothing more than a network of informants scattered through dozens of villages and they were responsible for reporting the movements of active armed rebels without really knowing whether there were any small isolated l r a groups among them or not. maybe that was more information. because the radios were all over the community. that information. this is so it was a long title. in the meeting. most of the information would come to the invisible. mr sawyer i knew about it was how forceful the entire. but i don't know how it would have been between the non profit. information to the military so we were kind of like. at the end of it looked us if we were the voice of. the n.r.a. why children if you're feeding the military for them and go on get them to do. better do your good she told me she felt uncomfortable with sharing information with the military. and. that's very interesting i was not in a position of leadership that i am now at the time when jolie was working with invisible hand in that role but my understanding was that that was not her sentiment previously so i. only recently i owe. my understanding is that that was not a sentiment that she held. at the time that these programs are being developed the concept of neutrality with the l r a is very different than in the context of a civil conflict or intercommunal conflict and so in that context supporting essentially law enforcement in the protection of civilians we felt it was very important. except that in the code of ethics for n.g.o.s recognized by the un neutrality is non-negotiable in fact a non-governmental organization should always be independent of governments enormous. invisible children however has always collaborated with the ugandan army and regime. so just like in february 2009 at the time the most of any government claimed there was a conspiracy afoot to overthrow it. patrick koma cash who had worked for invisible children in its early days was accused of being part of the plot. i was having. the need for me. i was supposed to. have been. never seen in my life before. and i remember. i remember one day said i was the. prisoners who were down there. i know that this guy for. life. patrick was eventually cleared of all charges but who denounced him the answer was hidden in a secret diplomatic note written by the us ambassador himself in 2009 later published on the wiki leaks website. number 4 they say they foiled a plot against the ugandan government and were looking for someone. to come with cash. because they say he was then arrested thanks to a tip off from invisible children. even the american ambassador implies that the organization does the leg work for ugandan forces. by the end i don't believe it is and i was not working within. and i didn't know what up. from there i called. somebody there. was so much. investigation. that people from. this. belt do you know him. know who i am i i do know who he is but i don't i can't have any. if i heard his name it might have been back in 2007 or something. do you know what evidence or. no i don't says that it has been arrested. because invisible children the gave it's you both for the uganda security forces i have no information about that. how do you feel about doubts about that was a bunch of them would have to be able to to do so well i have i have no way of knowing if that's true at all i sorry it is i'm in love met the guy there is substantial evidence that's actually invisible children have that's i'm david supposed to the your i'm not a tree on the and arrested him and the guy was the orchard for 3 months and then he was cleared because he didn't do anything how would you feel about that is that. i i have no information about that situation at all i obviously anyone who acts who would experience something horrible like that is it is unacceptable i have no information on that situation. another thing that bothered me about the coney 2012 video was the evangelical rather messianic tone adopted by jason russell. the founder of invisible children seems to regard himself as something of a pastor. his speeches are sermons. more you know and no one i'm here to tell you who are not. here is the copy that was put out by truth wins out of the gay marriage organization i was working. on for this audio i found of tears russell at the gathering in 2000. and 8 is the biggest community of christian fundamentalists philanthropists in the united states so here it is. only in so with this movie we are able to be the trojan horse in a sense going into a rock say guess what lifestyle our sins and stuff. pass. by. and scott said it's his start and that's really bad what this has been a fault too. well i was surprised that he would use the word choice in horace even that out a conference such as that of a joke a christian donors i was surprised that he went that far to fit mitt that that is his that they visible children was. perpetrating some some deceit. is it it's. true. so i. can't comment on what jason might or might. be very calm down we are in a religiously affiliated organisation. all of this was funded by an army of young people who put their money where their belief in the value of all human life they gave a few dollars a month of what little they have. their funding comes from young people who give a few dozen months. as invisible children became better and better known they were able to get small donations by presenting themselves as more or less a secular. non-profit which was doing great things in africa but that's not where they started they they started with money from the. giant fundamentalist of unshackled philanthropies that gave them seed money. this is the 1st year they're filing into this blog is the list of donors that's really it's a lot of churches and you know a lot of churches a lot of ministries so here's the big one the provision foundation which is a subsidiary of the national christian foundation and so this form lists. $350000.00 and i think they're one of the biggest in grants they got in 2007 and the national christian foundation it's a fundamentalist christian philanthropy they say in their statement of belief that the bible is the. infallible inerrant word of god and that were about essentially extending the kingdom promoting the kingdom our kind of the christian kingdom throughout the world and. we are. non-profit organization that's completely secular that focus on that atrocities prevention into neuroscience programming so that's not that's not that part of the organisation. could we go to invisible children websites you know to see what they're publishing you know in terms of the let's look at risk you know they'll be interesting because i haven't looked at it. i think it's probably still with this. they're getting half a $1000000.00 from someone. and it was yeah i mean. when you see when you go to the daughters in your thoughts for. we can say that we can see that there was a amounts of money for instance house a $1000000.00 from someone but we don't know what we don't know who it is often that we came up with you on you know that if. i could send you because yeah because it's so interesting. to google up and done with a few days after the interview at the ship the invisible children press officer who cut in during the interview sent me this clarification. it guarantees that donations are from private foundations with no religious affiliations will use. when it's really not reply that i would like to believe there is no religious connection for me but need to check for myself. could i have the names since then i've had no word from invisible children. but it doesn't end there the involvement of another more powerful entity in uganda raises the question who was really behind kone 2012. i'm the author of 2 books about an american fundamentalist organization with deep involvement in uganda. the family or the fellowship as it's known is the oldest and arguably the most influential christian conservative political organization in the united states. the organization the furs and perry very low profile the more invisible you can make your organization the longtime leader and on the same the more influence it will have he liked to refer to it as the christian mafia. located close to congress this unremarkable red brick building belongs to the fellowship. its members meet here in private to talk about jesus and business. but it won't open its doors to outsiders. its membership was not for the masses they weren't doing any big revivals it was for congressmen business leaders government leaders and they play a major part and facilitating us relationships with authoritarian figures around the world that's what they admire this they when they look at christ they don't see a model for love or compassion primarily they see strength. because they're then be more id. we'll recruit for the fellowship then the autocrats know where he moves have any. call for a terry and vehemently homophobic and evangelical. the family looks at my 70 as their key man as they put it in uganda but also as their one of their key men in africa and one of the key men globally saying come to us pray with us. do business with us and they really take credit for forging that relationship at the beginning and turning the 70 into the american sphere of influence where he has remained as powerful regional proxy ever since. in washington i was particularly interested in one member of the fellowship. a senator named jim inhofe known for his interest in african affairs. on. the lot of us on all of that and he had a problem with it is what you might think you feel i. didn't hoff was one of the stars of the coney 2012 video. all the problems that are out there no one is more severe than when the mutilation takes the lives of the little kids. a scintilla this senator jim inhofe from oklahoma must be pretty close to the ngo because in one of the other videos we have we see him taking part in one of the n.g.o.s protests. areas and. his interest in uganda goes back many years. in this press release from 2006 he was already raising the alarm about what he called northern uganda as terrorist group the l r a. when i go this is i'm doing my jesus thing when he goes and meets with foreign leaders he says i'm a u.s. senator i'm the conduit to u.s. power and money if you want to get there you go through me and you go to jesus. the senator will not answer our questions what's clear is that for decades a radical fellowship has been pulling strings behind the scenes to get uganda to advance u.s. interests. me 2012 was just part of a much more complex story. incidentally what happened right after the videos of viral success. once its makers collected $70000000.00 in donations. that. alpha coin treasure trove when i was c.e.o. decided that there was no funding coming in i made the decision to close the invisible children in uganda. the moral of this story. is that there isn't one. in 2017 the u.s. government's development agency usaid awarded $24000000.00 in grants to invisible children to fund a 5 year mission in the democratic republic of congo. today invisible children gets most of its funding from the us government. to me a founder member of the invisible children i'm the one who led to them to get this story i felt. that this is our story that went out there and it was being managed by someone else that is why i chose to continue with it. kick off. this much is certain something is coming. to sashay for the kickoff of the business leaders. are looking great. in the netherlands where my surprises live. these years to look ahead to the new season kicked off. in 30 minutes on t.w. . clearing mines in ukraine one step at a time many young highly qualified people want to free their country from landmines and. be trapped. there even retraining to do it. on the job the week away from their families. what's driving them close up. 90 minutes on d w. like . oh i'd lay my gorgeous. food for the russians sold. out in the street. so many different walks of life. some are pumping and oddly trying to get all of them come straight from the heart to proceed here even when there's no more delusional. interaction. from the 1st glimpse of the law to their final resting place the russians on the g.w. 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