Angelina Jolie, who is directing a love story film set during the Bosnian War, was called "ignorant" yesterday (November 29, 2010) by a group of women who were victims of sexual violence during the 1990s war, according to the AFP website.
In a letter to the United Nations Refugee Agency -- in which Jolie is a goodwill ambassador -- the Women Victims of War said its members are "deeply concerned about the movie."
"Angelina Jolie's ignorant attitude toward victims says enough about the scenario and gives us the right to continue having doubts about it," the letter read. "We believe that she has no more credibility to remain the ambassador," the letter concluded.
After rumors of the rapist love story line surfaced in October, a group of Bosnian War rape victims pressured city officials to withdraw Jolie's filming permit.
The rumors proved to be untrue, and after the country's minister of culture read the script -- about a Bosnian woman who falls in love with a Serb man -- the permit was reinstated.
Nonetheless, Jolie earlier this month cut the shooting schedule from 10 days to three days, and decided to film some of the scenes originally planned for Bosnia in Hungary instead.
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