Joseph Kony: Altar boy who became Africa's most wanted man

Joseph Kony, leader of the Lord's Resistance Army, speaks during a meeting with a delegation of 160 officials and lawmakers from northern Uganda. Uganda's military says it has started pulling its forces from Central African Republic, where troops had been pursuing one of Africa's most notorious fugitives, Joseph Kony. [AP Photo, File]

Eleven years ago, a documentary catapulted the name Joseph Kony onto the global stage. The controversial film, Kony 2012, told the story of a Ugandan warlord whose forces are believed by the United Nations to be responsible for the deaths of more than 100,000 people, the abduction of at least 20,000 children and the displacement of more than two million people.

Though most of the world hadn't heard of Kony before then, Ugandans knew and feared him. The founder of the Lord's Resistance Army unleashed a wave of violence across northern Uganda for two decades.