Uma Thurman Will Face Down Rebels in Uganda

I'd say it probably means that the last 30 released wasn't enough story.

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Mmm, I checked: it was 30. Maybe SIster Caroline succeeded in gaining the freedom of the remaining girls AFTER the book was published, eh?

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You'd think the movie makers would want to have the 30 person version. Save on extras.

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This is hollywood doing unholy things to make money. Their interest is money not advocating for human rights. Otherwise, the big story should be how President Museveni of Uganda orchestrated genocide in Northern Uganda by forcing up to 2 million people to live in the forced displaced people camps under dehumanizing conditions for over 10 years. At the end, he apparently instructed his Minister for Disaster Preparedness to tell people that they will return to their former villages in the same way they came to the camps, meaning they would be bombed out if they refused and that there would be no government assistance to facilitate their resettlement. Even the last outgoing US Ambassador to Uganda, Mr. Steve Browning, said in his exit interview that he did not see any serious effort by the Museveni regime to rebuild war-ravaged northern Uganda.

For those who have heard or read President Obama's inaugural and Accra Ghana speeches in which he warned, without naming individual culprits, who cling to power by deceit, oppression of dissent, corruption etc, would know that the poster child of Obama's warning is President Museveni. He has earned it by shooting himself to power in 1986, invaded the Democratic Republic of the Congo, fought a losing battle wih Rwanda, his government was found liable of looting the DRC as committing war crimes for which the International Court of Justice found Uganda liable and was orded to compensate the DRC $10 billion. He is alleged to be the mastermind of the Rwanda genocide, the DRC genocide which caused the lives of nearly 5 million people.

If Hollywood is interested in doing an epic movie like Sillburg's movie. This would be the story, not that the kidnapping of the Aboke girls is any less painful to us and particularly the girls and their parents. We just need to look at the big picture and not focus on a needle in a haystack and fail to see the big pile of hays..

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Those seeking entertainment owe little to the people whose stories are being told; but producers and writers need to take more responsibility for truth-telling.

It's an uphill battle to put forward the truth, when so much of our story has become distorted.

Please read a perspective many of us share in the community: http://ugandagenocide.info/?p=1300

Without truth, documentaries are useless. The Sister helped to secure the release of 109 girls and 30 were left. The last girl, Ugandan newspapers report, escaped the LRA when Uganda hit LRA camps last December. She was found wandering in the Congo forests with her child.

Read her account told in her own words:
http://www.monitor.co.ug/artman/publish/news/The_untold_story_of_last_Aboke_girl_81861.shtml

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Correct number of girls rescued first is 30. I was among the first journalists to arrive at the school after terrible day. Dorm was still smoking when I arrived.

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From what I recall, there were a very large number of girls taken in the first abduction and the Sister managed to secure the safe return of all but the 30 that the book is then based on. The book then follows her tale as she tracks down and saves the remaining 30. Perhaps the journalist should have read the book!

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Uma Thurman is a Hollywood star. I am a big fan of her. She always looking amazing on screen. I love her movie. I just seen her upcoming movie "Motherhood" promo http://www.clipta.com/Motherhood_Trailer__v6815087801 and extremely excited to watch this movie.

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Hi'
I would like to act in the movie,I read the book i like the story.

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The west will NEVER accept an African story without the hero being someone white. YUKK.

Stay out of Uganda!!!!!!!

Attention is turning to Uganda because they found oil. C'mon now! Where was the international community before, huh? Now all of a sudden we hear Northern Uganda in the news and now in movies.

Uma, please stay away from Uganda and Ugandan stories.

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