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In May of last year, Academy Award nominated actor Don Cheadle and his family were invited to Kampala, Uganda to attend a charity screening of the film Hotel Rwanda to raise money for the children-the "night commuters" of Northern Uganda. They are called "night commuters" because every night they must flee their homes seeking refuge in large camps in the cities to keep from being kidnapped, dragged into the bush and ultimately forced to fight against the Ugandan government for the rebel Lords Resistance Army. |
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Don and family left the Ugandan capital and traveled 5 hours up-country to the town of Gulu to see for themselves how these kids and their families, are forced to live. The "night commuter" story is one that remains like so many other tragedies in Africa, largely unreported to the outside world.
"Journey Into Sunset" examines the lives and experiences of several of these boys and girls. Some of them have been able to avoid being kidnapped. Others who weren't so lucky. They lived or died at the will and whim of their captors. They were forced to fight. And some commited horrible atrocities. We meet some of the kids managed to escape the clutches of the LRA. They're free now, but the scars on their souls will never heal. |
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This is also a story of how the lives of Don and his family were effected as a result of the people, young and old, that they met and what they saw and heard. An American family witnesses the frightening and regularly tragic life that Northern Ugandan families face each day. |
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