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Richard Assheton
Freelance foreign correspondent and contributor to The Sunday Times who conducted the secret interview with Ali Kony and reported on the encounter.
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Dec 1, 2025
• 35min
Joseph Kony's son escaped his father's militia - now he tells his story
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Richard Assheton, a freelance foreign correspondent for The Sunday Times, interviews Ali Kony, son of infamous Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony. Ali shares his chilling upbringing in the Lord's Resistance Army and the complexities of life with his father. He reveals his surprising ignorance of the viral Kony 2012 campaign and reflects on his difficult escape in 2021. The podcast explores themes of victimhood and perpetration, the rehabilitation of former child soldiers, and Ali’s conflicting emotions about his father.
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