LONDON , MAY 11 -
Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie, in London to promote her new film
"Maleficent," used the red carpet event on Thursday to renew her plea
for the safe return of more than 200 Nigerian school girls kidnapped by
Islamist rebels.
The 38-year-old actress, who serves as a United Nations special envoy
for refugees, said it was "heart-warming" to hear reporters' questions
and people's concern for the abducted girls at a movie event.
"The important thing though is to understand that this happens because
these men think they can get away with this and they can do this," Jolie
told reporters.
"We have to start arresting people for this, we have to start bringing
them to justice and we have to start making it an absolute crime that
puts fear in these men so that they think twice about this kind of
action."
People around the world have been showing their support by taking part
in protests and joining online campaigns calling for the rescue of the
girls taken from a secondary school by extremist group Boko Haram on
April 14.
U.S. first lady Michelle Obama and Pakistani schoolgirl and human
rights activist Malala Yousafzai are among those backing an online
campaign and have posted photos of themselves holding a sign reading
"#BringBackOurGirls."
Jolie also said she was increasingly concerned about for people in
Ukraine, where pro-Moscow separatists have ignored a public call by
Russian President Vladimir Putin to postpone a referendum on self-rule
in eastern Ukraine, declaring they would go ahead on Sunday with a vote
that could lead to war.
"I can't imagine anybody from that region isn't just terrified that the worst is yet to come," she said.
Jolie, dressed in a long black gown and joined by her fiance Brad Pitt,
led the stars of Walt Disney Co's "Maleficent" at the premiere at
London's Kensington Palace. Disney's modern reimagining of the Sleeping
Beauty fairytale is due out in theaters around the world at the end of
the month.
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