Joseph Kony, the head of the Lord's Resistance Army, responsible for several gruesome atrocities and killing hundreds of civilians in Uganda. He got world's attention after Jason Russell and his invisible children group posted a video Kony 2012, demanding his immediate arrest.
According to Forbes reports , under his rule, over two million people are displaced, 60,000 abducted and scores brutally murdered. Kony has been indicted on 33 charges by the International Criminal Court, including murder, rape, sexual slavery, and forcefully instigating kids to kill their parents. The LRA is reportedly responsible for killing 2,400 civilians since 2008.
The other internationally indicted fugitives including Joseph Kony, who have fallen in the Forbes' list of most wanted criminals are: Dawood Ibrahim, Matteo Messina Denaro, Felicien Kabuga, Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov, Semion Mogilevich, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Joaquìn Guzmàn and Doku Umarov.
The most wanted global terrorist Osama bin Laden was killed by a U.S. military raid in Pakistan. However, his former secretary Nasir al-Wuhayshi, who escaped from a maximum security prison in Yemen, has slipped into the list.
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One of the world's most wanted rebel chiefs, Joseph Kony of the Lord's Resistance Army, is seen in this image taken from Reuters TV in Nairobi May 24, 2006. Kony has called for an end to his 20-year war with the Ugandan government in the first images of him seen for years, taken in an unknown location in Southern Sudan during the meeting on April 11, 2006 between the delegations of Kony and the vice president of southern Sudan, Riek Machar, where they pledged to end fighting.
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Al Qaeda's top strategist and second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahri is shown in this undated file photo. [A U.S. airstrike] in Pakistan targeted al Qaeda's No. 2 al-Zawahri but it was unclear if he had been killed. Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden and the Egyptian-born Zawahiri have eluded capture since U.S.-led forces toppled Afghanistan's Taliban government in 2001 after the September 11 attacks.
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Joaquin Guzman, the leader of Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel, is seen in this undated handout photo provided by the Federal Prosecutor's Office to Reuters on January 18, 2011. Guzman, arguably the world's infamous drug trafficker, has built an empire from Colombia to China since he broke out of prison in a laundry van on January 19, 2000. He is believed to be hiding in the mountains of Northwest Mexico in the state of Durango.
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An image (L) generated by the Italian state police forensics laboratory in Palermo, shows a computer rendition of what Italian mafia fugitive Matteo Messina Denaro may look like in recent years, as compared to an old photo taken of him, July 4, 2011. Denaro, 49, considered one of the biggest mafia bosses in Italy, has been on the run since 1993. He is the most of the most-wanted mafia fugitives.
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Undated file photo - of Uzbek-born Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov. Tokhtakhounov was arrested in Italy on July 31, 2002, on charges of fixing skating results at the last Winter Olympics and could remain jail for months as he awaits extradition to the United States, police said on Thursday. [U.S. federal prosecutors in New York said they had charged Tokhtakhounov over a scheme to fix two figure skating competitions at February's Salt Lake City games on behalf of French and Russian competitors.
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Chechen rebels, led by Emir of the Caucasus Doku Umarov (C), who has claimed responsibility for terror attacks like the suicide bombings of Moscow subway stations that killed 40 people last year. Chechen rebel leader Umarov has said his forces will carry out more attacks and that Russia faces a year of "blood and tears" if it refuses to abandon its North Caucasus territories, according to a story on February 5, 2011. The U.S. government offered up $5 million for information leading to his capture.
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Dawood Ibrahim, most-wanted man in India is responsible for November 2008 Mumbai attacks collaboratively with both al Qaeda and its South Asian affiliate, Lashkar-e-Taiba. Ibrahim is suspected of having organized the 1993 Bombay bombings that killed 257 people and wounded 713. Even though the Pakistani government had denied it, he is perhaps hiding in Pakistan.
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Semion Mogilevich is seen in this image taken off a court television screen during a hearing on the charges against him in Moscow February 18, 2008. Mogilevich, dubbed a major organised crime boss by the FBI, is being charged with large-scale tax evasion at one of Russia's biggest cosmetics retailers. FBI also alleges him with the claims of murder-for-hire to weapons trafficking and possibly trafficking in nuclear materials.
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Nasir al-Wuhayshi, the leader of Al Qaeda in the Arab Peninsula. He was the former secretary of global terrorist, Osama Bin Laden, responsible for 9/11 attacks. He escaped from a maximum security prison in Yemen in 2006. He is one the most wanted fugitive.
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Felicien Kabuga, a wealthy Rwandan and the most-wanted man in Africa. The one behind one of the worst genocides in human history, he is accused of helping finance the killings. U.S government offers large financial payments for information leading to the arrest of alleged terrorists. The United States stepped up a search for the alleged masterminds of Rwandas 1994 genocide by publishing a Wanted photograph in Kenyan newspapers.
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