MIRREN HIGHLIGHTS UGANDA CRISIS
Actress DAME HELEN MIRREN has penned an article for British newspaper The Times highlighting the dire situation in Uganda.
The veteran star visited Northern Uganda in December 2004 with charity Oxfam, and was heavily affected by the sad scenes she saw there.
Mirren was especially concerned about the 25,000 children kidnapped and forced to fight in the internal conflict.
Mirren says, "When I was there, I went to one of those centres and met a young man called John, who had recently arrived. I remember watching him sit under a mango tree playing an instrument. It’s melancholic sound was mesmerising. It seemed that now only music could obliterate memories of the atrocities he had committed."
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