Starring role for street children


	Starring role for street children

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4-9-2007 5:02 AM

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<FONT size="2"><B>I am sure all correspondents working abroad have thought the story they are covering would make a great film. Well, a film has now been made covering a fictitious African war and should be on our screens in May.</B>  
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				<IMG width="203" vspace="0" hspace="0" height="152" border="0" alt="Boys play the role of soldiers for the camera" src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42768000/jpg/_42768959_boysoldiers_bbc_203.jpg" />
				<DIV class="cap">Former street children play the role of boy soldiers in a war comedy</DIV>
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			</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>In front of me, a skinny 10-year-old boy, swathed in gun belts, is balancing an AK-47 between his small bony knees. 
</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/6526963.stm"><FONT size="2">Having chased news stories throughout Africa over 10 years, this is not the first time child soldiers have pointed guns at me. Usually they are out of their heads on drink and drugs.
</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/6526963.stm"><FONT size="2">Yasmin Gilani, one of the trustees of the home, has a simple  philosophy: "You come into this world with nothing, you leave with nothing - so you might as well try to spread some happiness."
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<FONT size="2">We had come to Africa to shoot a comedy. But on our last night we were all surreptitiously wiping the tears from our eyes. 
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