Screening at Columbia University Oct 4

A Brilliant Genocide / Another Fine Mess
Film Screening and Book Release Talk

 

Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs will screen the powerful documentary A Brilliant Genocide which exposes the true story behind the rise of the brutal warlord Joseph Kony and the Ugandan government's brutal campaigns against the Acholi people. The one hour film will be followed by a panel discussion featuring:

Helen C. Epstein, whose Another Fine Mess: America, Uganda and the War on Terror explores the US relationship with Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni and his involvement in five violent conflicts that erupted shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall in the Horn and Great Lakes regions of Africa. She teaches at Bard College and Columbia's School of Public and International Affairs and writes frequently for the New York Review of Books and other publications.

Ogenga Otunnu, an Associate Professor of History at DePaul University whose two volume study, Crisis of Legitimacy and Political Violence in Uganda (Palgrave 2016,2017) is the only academic work covering Uganda's entire history. He is an expert on the causes and consequences of forced migration, humanitarian emergencies and Africa and Black Diaspora studies.

Milton Allimadi, who teaches at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and is publisher of Black Star News. He comes from Uganda and appears in A Brilliant Genocide.

Date: 

October 4, 2017 - 6:00pm - 8:00pm

Location:

Columbia University
School of International and Public Affairs
Room 1501
420 W 118th St #1410
New York, NY 10027 

See: http://www.ias.columbia.edu/event/brilliant-genocideanother-fine-mess

Worldwide TV Broadcast of A Brilliant Genocide This Weekend Only

LIVE WEB AND WORLDWIDE TV  BROADCAST OF A BRILLIANT GENOCIDE TODAY AND THIS WEEKEND ONLY with RT (Russia Today) 

The first broadcast starts in 1.5 hours from now!

Please check www.rt.com/schedule for updates over the weekend to confirm our airing times.  All times are in GMT! You can watch live from the website or phone app, or on Cable / Foxtel on the RT (Russia Today Global News Channel).

This is the last opportunity to see this film on worldwide TV. Don’t miss out.

Todays Screening on RT - March 3:

10:30am GMT  

9.30pm Australia (AEST)

12:30am Uganda

6:30am - New York

3:30pm GMT

5:30am Uganda

11:30am - New York

5:30pm GMT

07:30am Uganda

1:30pm - New York

Watch on live streaming here if you don't have cable TV:  https://www.rt.com/on-air/

Follow our Twitter and Facebook accounts as ahead of every broadcast we will be posting updates and reminders! 

www.facebook.com/abrilliantgenocide

www.twitter.com/acholigenocide

March 4 Broadcast Times in GMT 

(times may likely change slightly so please check www.rt.com/schedule tomorrow)

01:30am (Aus 12:30pm)

06:30am (Aus 5:30pm)

08:30am (Aus7:30pm)

9:30am (Aus 8:30pm)

14:30pm (Aus 01:30am)

19:30pm (Aus 08:30am)

March 5 Broadcast Times in GMT

(times may likely change slightly so please check www.rt.com/schedule tomorrow)

00:30am (Aus 11:30am)

04:30am (Aus 3:30pm)

05:30am (Aus 4:30pm)

A Brilliant ‪Genocide‪ Screening Tonight (March 1st) at #BIFF2017 (Beloit Int'l Film Festival)

A Brilliant ‪Genocide‪ is screening tonight at the Beloit International Film Festival, Wisconsin!

If Beloit is in your radar please try and attend, as we would truly love to share this important, and largely untold story with you!


Time / Venue:  7:30pm sharp at Domenico's,  547 E Grand Ave, Beloit!

FYI:  Beloit is just 2 hours drive from Chicago.

See: www.bit.ly/ABGBeloit

#EndTheSilence


www.abrilliantgenocide.com

A Brilliant Genocide - Official Selection at Beloit International Film Festival 2017 

Watching the Hawks with Sean Stone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enFj9Tk4hsw

Published on Dec 28, 2016
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Sean Stone interviews journalist Milton Allimadi about the hidden genocide taking place in Uganda and the 2016 feature documentary 'A Brilliant Genocide' which is the first of it's kind to expose the Ugandan regime for crimes against humanity including the most grave crime of all, genocide.

More at www.abrilliantgenocide.com

The Document International Human Rights Film Festival - Our Doc's Scottish Premiere!

A Brilliant Genocide's Scottish Premiere

A Brilliant Genocide

This is the untold story of how an African dictator has been able to commit mass murder and still get a regular audience at The White House and 10 Downing Street. A Brilliant Genocide is a political expose and human rights documentary that details the untold story of suffering and an unrecognized genocide against the Acholi people of northern Uganda by the current Government, under President Yoweri Museveni, who has for decades been staunch ally to the west. But has the West been hoodwinked by this deceptive devil in disguise, the face of democracy in Africa, the US’s strongest ally in the region and who Clinton once called “a beacon of hope on the African continent”, or have they turned a blind eye and knowingly been dancing with the devil for their own selfish and strategic interests?

ONE WORLD ARTICLE: Uganda government accused of 'the perfect crime'

Uganda government accused of 'the perfect crime'

3rd October 2016, from Daniel Nelson

A documentary accusing President Museveni and the Uganda army of genocide against the Acholi people in the north is being used to lobby for an end to US aid to Uganda.

A Brilliant Genocide argues that Museveni exploited atrocities by a rebel group, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), as a cover for his own “reign of terror” against the Acholis.
The film’s website carries a petition asking the US President to cut arms supplies and non-humanitarian aid, to ensure Museveni and others face justice, and to use sanctions and diplomacy to force the Uganda government to compensate victims of army violence.

After a film festival screening in London last Friday, Olara Otunnu, a Uganda politician, diplomat and former UN Under-Secretary-General and Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, insisted that Acholi culture and civilisation faced “existential annihilation.

“We must address how to resuscitate [this culture] gather the pieces – a Marshall Plan is not big enough for Acholiland today,” he said.

The crisis had been written about and been the subject of reports, but all had been “studiously ignored and brushed under the carpet”.

Director Ebony Butler has said that she started making a film about Joseph Kony, the LRA and the use of child soldiers in 2009 but “along our six-year journey we found some completely untold ‘hidden’ stories that we felt were even more important to bring to light …”

Those responsible for these massive human rights abuses were still in office today, she has written, and continue to enjoy “complete impunity for their crimes”.

Why the title? As an interviewee in the film says: “No food, no hydration, sexual violence from the soldiers who were meant to protect them. That’s why this was a ‘brilliant genocide’ – a silent genocide: perfect crime.”

-Daniel Nelson

Up Next:

The Document Int'l Human Rights Film Festival, Glasgow Oct 21
The 36th Cambridge Int'l Film Festival, Cambridge Oct 22 and 23
The Lone Star Film Festival, Dallas Texas (Sundance Square, Forth Worth) November 10 - 13
In December look out for the South Eastern International Film Festival (SIFF)

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Kizza Besigye: The People's President [Uganda]

We interviewed Ugandan opposition leader Dr Kizza Besigye a few years back when we were in Uganda doing research for our film, 'A Brilliant Genocide'.

We interviewed Ugandan opposition leader Dr Kizza Besigye a few years back when we were in Uganda doing research for our film, 'A Brilliant Genocide'.

Here's what Kizza Besigye had to say back then about the state of democracy in Uganda and the electoral process (well before the last disputed elections this February 2016... )

Photo Credit: Echwalu Photography
Video by: Atlantic Star Productions
Documentary: www.abrilliantgenocide.com

More videos and outtakes from our research at www.vimeo.com/channels/ABGmedia


CURRENT NEWS: [May 2016]

Ugandan opposition leader under house arrest to stop him holding rallies:

Kizza Besigye, who has ran for president four times and many claim was the rightful winner of this years elections, is being detained at home as police break up public rallies.

There is also a current media ban for an media outlet covering Besigye's Defiance Campaign.

Seeking the Truth

Our team are on the move again, traveling the globe in search of the truth and the untold, unreported stories about the war in northern Uganda, for our documentary film 'Child Troopers' (working title).

This week we will be traveling to New Zealand to conduct interviews with Ugandan expats. We then plan to visit London early January to continue our research and interview exiled Ugandans who want to tell their story, that has been silenced and suppressed by international media for far too long. 

To follow our journey please check into www.twitter.com/madvsbad and follow us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/childtroopers 

Don't forget to also subscribe to this blog and share it with friends! 

Wish us luck, as the road ahead could get rough! 

The Case for Justice - ICTJ Documentary

Check out this insightful, though provoking and wonderfully crafted documentary: 'The Case for Justice'. The documentary explores transitional justice mechanisms and the significance of social and political justice to ensure sustainable and long-lasting peace in post conflict countries that are transitioning from dictatorship to democracy. It centers on the importance of truth telling, reparation, reconciliation and dignity of the victims, claiming that these elements are vital for sustainable democracy, development, security and peace. It argues that oppressors and violators of human rights must be held accountable for their actions in the past or in the present, as victims need the truth to be able to heal from trauma associated with victimization, violence, suffering and other forms of injustice and repression inflicted on them and their families. 

Published on Jul 16, 2012 by ICTJVideo

Why pursue transitional justice in the aftermath of massive human rights violations? "The Case for Justice" provides a window into the debate about the relevance of transitional justice in today's world.

The complexity of this debate is best illustrated by the different myths that abound within it. Some contend transitional justice is "soft justice," an alternative to pursuing criminal justice in the wake of mass atrocities or repression; others equate it solely with criminal trials, fully focused on perpetrators. Some view it as a key obstacle to reaching successful peace agreements; others regard it as a kind of a magic wand, a quick cure for the scars of war and abuse.

In fact, the field of transitional justice recognizes that without accountability for massive human rights abuses, societies have little hope of avoiding the recurrence of conflict or building sustainable peace.

Alec Pederson to Co-Produce Child Troopers with Ebony Butler

LA based Alec Pederson, who worked on the Academy Award winning documentary, 'The Cove', has jumped on board with Ebony Butler from Atlantic Star Productions, as a producer of her documentary 'Child Troopers', which has been over two years in the making.

Africa's Peace Seekers: Betty Bigombe / The Christian Science Monitor - CSMonitor.com

Betty Bigombe's Biography

1954 Born in Northern Uganda

1981-84 Became corporate secretary of the Uganda Mining Corporation

1986 Elected to parliament

1988 Appointed minister of state for pacification of northern Uganda

1993 Named Uganda's 'Woman of the Year' for her peace efforts

1997 Received master's degree from Harvard

1997 Appointed senior social scientist at postconflict department of the World Bank

Children: Pauline and Emmanuel

International Crisis Group : Elements of a New Strategy to Disarm the LRA

There has been a lot of talk in 2010 with the LRA Disarmament Act being introduced into Congress, then the historical moment when the legislation was enacted by President Obama. Things were sounding good, and hopefully they still are good, but from afar, there seems to be little effective action taking place.

There has been the release of the 'Comprehensive Strategy', which really only outlined what one would do to help LRA affected people...