Uganda rising [videorecording (DVD)] / directed by Jesse James Miller and Pete McCormack.

Uganda rising [videorecording (DVD)] / directed by Jesse James Miller and Pete McCormack.

Publication Date
2006

Publication Information
Vancouver, B.C. : Mindset Media,

Physical Description
1 videodisc (83 min.)

Geographic Term
Uganda -- Politics and government -- 1979-
 
Uganda -- History -- 1979-

Additional Contributors
Miller, Jesse James.
 
McCormack, Pete, 1965-
 
Smith, Kavan,
 
Chomsky, Noam.
 
Mamdani, Mahmood, 1946-
 
Power, Samantha.
 
Bigombe, Betty.
 
Axworthy, Lloyd, 1939-

Performer
Narrated by Kavan Smith.

Summary
This documentary examines the situation in Northern Uganda - a region devastated by a civil war between Yoweri Museveni's government forces and the rebel group known as the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). This was has been characterised by the extreme brutality of the LRA and in particular the abduction of over twenty-five thousand children. These children are then forced into committing atrocities or put into military combat. In addition, over one and a half million Ugandans have been displaced into camps.

Language
English

General Note
DVD.
 
Includes interviews with Noam Chomsky, Mahmood Mamdani, Samantha Power, Betty Bigome and Lloyd Axworthy.

Language Note
Narration in English, some dialogue in an unknown dialect with English sub-titles.


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