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Bosnian rape victims call Angelina Jolie 'ignorant'
Angelina Jolie may be the goodwill ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, but she’s getting no goodwill from an organization of Bosnian rape victims over her new movie.
The yet-to-be-titled film, Jolie’s directorial debut, is “a love story between a Muslim woman and a Serb man set against the background of Bosnia's 1992-1995 inter-ethnic war,” Agence-France Presse reported.
Local Bosnian media, however, said the movie would include the rape of a Bosnian woman by a Serb and a romance between the two, according to a report from the Los Angeles Times in October.
On Monday, a victims group from the war sent a letter to the UNHCR saying Jolie has an “ignorant attitude towards victims” for not meeting with them and explaining what the film is about, according to the AFP report. Women Victims of War says it has documented 25,000 rapes from the conflict.
Jolie has said the film does not contain any rape-love scenario and offered to meet with representatives from the group, Women Victims of War, in Hungary where she is filming most of the movie.
The group has rejected that offer.
Jolie's plea on Pakistan floods: 'We have to support them'
For Angelina Jolie, the scale and impact of the floods that have devastated Pakistan are apparent on the faces of those she meets.
She saw it in the eyes of a couple in their 70s - a husband who served twice in the military and built his house by himself for his family, one they've lived in for nearly 40 years.
"The man spoke to the fact that he never felt in his lifetime he is ever going to be able to recuperate what he lost," Jolie told Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN's chief medical correspondent. "That he would never have again nice things. He would never have a nice bed, a nice house. And she - they lived in this place since 1972. And raised their children and their grandchildren there. In a moment, a few hours, it was completely gone."
Jolie spoke to Gupta during her fourth trip to Pakistan as a spokeswoman for the U.N. refugee agency to help bring awareness to the country in the wake of devastating floods that have affected 21 million people.
It's a scene Jolie said may be hard for some to understand - especially because of how far away it is. If people saw the eyes of the children pleading for help, perhaps they'd understand the Pakistanis' will to live, she said.
"If they met all these children [who are] so resilient and are still children and so full of life and love and hope," Jolie said that she thinks people would grasp the situation better.
"I think it is - this part of the world, they are resilient people. Think of all that they have been hit with. They continue to move on, to rebuild."
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