Boxing is therapy for former child soldier Kassim
Freshly House of York (Reuters) - What struck U.S. movie maker Kief Davidson just about Ugandan child soldier turned world booster boxer Kassim "The Dreaming" Ouma was that he was always grinning.
Davidson became fascinated by how Ouma, kidnapped from shoal at age 6 by the maverick army of Yoweri Museveni -- world Health Organization is now Uganda's president -- dealt with his incubus yesteryear.
More than iI days subsequently low gear seeing Ouma on a TV intelligence segment, Davidson's beautifully shot documentary film, "Kassim The Dream," debuted on Friday at Freshly York's Tribeca Film Festival. In the plastic film, Davidson tells the story of Ouma's first travel back to Republic of Uganda since he fled to the United States in 1998.
The motion-picture photography took place conclusion year during a truce between Museveni's government and the maverick Lord's Immunity United States Army.
But unity of Africa's longest wars rages on, later on well-nigh 2 years of negotiations collapsed in early on Apr. The 22-year civil warfare has killed tens of thousands of people and uprooted 2 billion more in northern Republic of Uganda alone.
Ouma, world Health Organization learned to box seat in the army, fled to the United States when he was 19 victimisation a visa given to him for a war machine boxing championship. He arrived homeless and unable to talk English, at 1 point handing out pizza fliers ahead finding a boxing gymnasium, where his talent became apparent.
"Boxing was my way out and it's my therapy," said Ouma, 29.
And it was his pugilism fame, in detail his high profile match against reigning middleweight champ Jermain Taylor that helped him incur a forgiveness from Ugandan Chief Executive Museveni and call his fatherland.
