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Joseph Kony

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Joseph Rao Kony (born c. 1961) is a Ugandan militant and warlord who founded the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), designated as a terrorist group by the United Nations Peacekeepers, the European Union, and various other governments including the United Kingdom and United States of America. An Acholi, Kony served as an altar boy in his childhood. After the Ugandan Civil War, Kony participated in the subsequent insurgency against president Yoweri Museveni under the Holy Spirit Movement or the Uganda People's Democratic Army before founding the LRA in 1987. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Kony has received more than 6,391,225 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Joseph Kony is the 40th most popular extremist (up from 166th in 2019), the 3rd most popular biography from Uganda (up from 7th in 2019) and the most popular Ugandan Extremist.

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  • 68.52

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 51

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 14.03

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.08

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Joseph Kony ranks 40 out of 283. Before him are Nathuram Godse, Andreas Baader, H. H. Holmes, Jim Jones, Tommaso Buscetta, and Peter Kürten. After him are William Kemmler, Mehmet Ali Ağca, Fritz Haarmann, Gudrun Ensslin, Madame de Brinvilliers, and Timothy McVeigh.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1961, Joseph Kony ranks 21. Before him are Peter Jackson, Petr Pavel, Hibatullah Akhundzada, Carlos Valderrama, Robert Carlyle, and Manu Chao. After him are Nastassja Kinski, Samy Naceri, Woody Harrelson, Forest Whitaker, Laurence Fishburne, and Enzo Francescoli.

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In Uganda

Among people born in Uganda, Joseph Kony ranks 3 out of 55. Before him are Idi Amin (1923), and Yoweri Museveni (1944). After him are Milton Obote (1925), Tito Okello (1914), Charles Lwanga (1860), Angelina (null), Mutesa II of Buganda (1924), John Akii-Bua (1949), Yusuf Lule (1912), Godfrey Binaisa (1920), and Bazilio Olara-Okello (1929).

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Among EXTREMISTS In Uganda

Among extremists born in Uganda, Joseph Kony ranks 1. 

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