Northern Youth Narrate Plight in Invisible Children
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The Monitor (Kampala)
May 4, 2005
Posted to the web May 3, 2005
Simon Kasyate
"If possible you can kill us... we don't want to stay. We are only two with no one taking care of us." This statement from a little boy called Jacob in the documentary Invisible Children will no doubt reduce even the hardest of hearts to tears.
This, coupled with other captivating sounds and sights, makes the documentary that started as a chronicle of three American boys' adventure on holiday in Africa, a touching reality television experience.
The documentary is to be launched at Steak Out Bar and Restaurant, Nakasero at 7 p.m. to a select corporate crowd.
In its close to 60 minutes duration, It brings out the most salient of calamities that have befallen northern Uganda as a result of the now 19-year-old insurgence by rebel leader Joseph Kony of the Lord's Resistance Army-the suffering of the children.
This would never have been, had the three boys, Laren Puole, Bobby Briley and Jason Russell not ventured into the unknown ending in Northern Uganda were they were met face to face with the worst humanitarian crisis ever in their young na�ve lives.
And blame this naivety not on them but on the fact that many have come, seen and never gone out there to tell their story.
(L-R, behind ): Vason Russel, Bobby Bailey, Jorge Sebilla and Laren Poole, with Tony Bazilo( R) and Jacob Acaye at a press briefing on the Invisible Children documentary about the suffering of children in Northern Uganda to be launched today at Steak Out Nakasero (Photo by Natty Dread).
Little wonder they chose Invisible Children as the title of their documentary that highlights the plight of children in the war ravaged Northern Uganda.
Night commuting, abductions, loss of kith and keen, degenerated state of mind and all are highlighted in great detail unfortunately bringing to truth possibly your worst imagination of catastrophe. Those that have watched the documentary admit to having been reduced to tears.
Why Invisible Children? The end credits to this documentary answers it all: Invisible because they roam distant battlefields away from scrutiny; because no records are kept of their numbers or age, because their own armies deny they exist! Could you have thought of a more fitting title?
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Archbishop Ondama put it that, "The people are now resilient to the situation and they bear it patiently because they have no where else to go." But there can be hope and it is this hope that these three young Americans are trying to find for as many children affected by this war as possible through raising awareness and support from their home community in the United States of America.
They have collected quite an amount of financial and other support but still the struggle continues.
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