George Clooney's latest film a plea for help in South Sudan
It was not a typical George Clooney premiere.
Of course the handsome Hollywood star took centre stage in the film, which also featured exotic locales, scenes of moving tragedy and a sense of derring-do against the odds. But the footage was real and it was being shown in the US Senate, not a cinema.
The subject is a grim one: attacks by the Sudanese government on the people of the Nuba Mountains. Clooney, whose work in Darfur has won him wide acclaim from human rights activists, had just returned from a hair-raising trip to the Nuba region and was aiming to highlight the plight of people there.
In testimony before the film was shown, he pulled no punches before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He described bombing runs by ageing Sudanese Antonov airplanes where bombs are simply pushed out the back of the plane. He talked of children being maimed and wounded. "These are not military targets. They are innocent women and children. That is a fact," Clooney said.
Of course the handsome Hollywood star took centre stage in the film, which also featured exotic locales, scenes of moving tragedy and a sense of derring-do against the odds. But the footage was real and it was being shown in the US Senate, not a cinema.
The subject is a grim one: attacks by the Sudanese government on the people of the Nuba Mountains. Clooney, whose work in Darfur has won him wide acclaim from human rights activists, had just returned from a hair-raising trip to the Nuba region and was aiming to highlight the plight of people there.
In testimony before the film was shown, he pulled no punches before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He described bombing runs by ageing Sudanese Antonov airplanes where bombs are simply pushed out the back of the plane. He talked of children being maimed and wounded. "These are not military targets. They are innocent women and children. That is a fact," Clooney said.
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