FARROW PLANS ANOTHER LIFE-RISKING DARFUR TRIP

Last updated: Saturday, January 13, 2007

FARROW PLANS ANOTHER LIFE-RISKING DARFUR TRIP

Movie star and humanitarian MIA FARROW is planning another trip to war-torn Sudan after risking her life there to take harrowing photographs of the victims of genocide last year (06).

Mia Farrow attends the Premiere of 'Arthur and The Invisibles' at the DGA Theater. New York City, USA - 07.01.07

The actress has visited the area with aid workers, who have since lost their lives in the conflict, three times, but she insists she can't just turn her back on the desperate mothers who turned to her for help.

Farrow plans to put her acting career on hold so she can continue to study the genocide and do what she can to raise awareness of the atrocities she has witnessed at first hand.

She says, "I've gone and I've put my life on the line three times, going into Darfur and eastern Chad.

"I can't turn away from this. I've studied all about the region pretty much four to six hours a day for the last three and a half years, so it isn't like I'm just shooting off about something I know nothing about. It isn't like my commitment is half-hearted.

"I may not be the best person to convey this message but I am keenly interested.

"The genocide in Darfur has gotten 50 minutes of air time (on the news). They have not allowed any international press there, so I'm going to the Central African Republic, which is on that Darfur border.

"I came back at Thanksgiving and I'm returning there again. We have to keep our priorities clear. My generation has gone complacent for all sorts of self-serving reasons. All the voices that were so outraged against the war once have gone rather silent now."

Source: WENN

| Saturday, January 13, 2007

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