NORWOOD – Sixth graders at Norwood-Norfolk Central School have taken up the cause of Invisible Children, an organization dedicated to publicizing The Lord’s Resistance Army, a central African guerilla group, and its leader, indicted war criminal Joseph Kony.

Rallies all across the country tonight aim at promoting the capture of Kony, a movement built by Invisible Children, whose emotional appeal in a YouTube video about the LRA went viral in March, putting pressure on leaders to take action.

A class of sixth graders at NNCS has incorporated the movement’s aims into a project about activism.

Kony and his group are accused of abducting tens of thousands of children, and perhaps as many as 100,000, since 1986, forcing them into service as soldiers or sex slaves.

The movement reaches a peak tonight with “Cover the Night,” a series of rallies around the world.

Kony has evaded capture since the International Criminal Court indicted him in 2005 for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Presidents George Bush and Barack Obama have both sent forces to central Africa in unsuccessful attempts at capture.

The United Kingdom newspaper The Guardian reported yesterday that leading non-governmental organizations, such as Oxfam and Christian Aid, are warning that previous military interventions have resulted in retaliatory massacres, and that child soldiers are likely to be on the front lines of any action.