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Uma Thurman will star in the independent drama Girl Soldier. Based on a true story, she will portray a cleric who helped rescue 140 schoolgirls abducted in Uganda.

Will Raee will direct from a script by Stephanie Pinola and Karen Croner.  The story is based on Kathy Cook’s book “Stolen Angels.”  

In 1996, a band of armed rebels abducted young girls to turn them into soldiers and sex slaves. A teacher at the school, Sister Caroline, tracked the rebels back to their camp to demand the girls’ release.  110 were returned to the nun, who then began a crusade over the next few years as she rallied parents, the government, the United Nations and the pope to aid in rescuing not only her own girls but other children in rebel captivity.

Thurman told Variety, “This is a film that had to get made. It’s beyond me that in this day and age the exploitation of child soldiers goes virtually unnoticed and unchecked by Western media.”

Thurman is so right in what she says.  People in western civilization would be horrified if they knew how much kidnapping and slave trafficking actually occurs around the world.

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