Appeal (In Tigrinya)tigrinya

We, former students and founders of the Tsebah School in Eritrea, are pleading to all who are interested in presenting the true face of Africa, to help us to stop producing the film based on the so called biography of Senait G. Mehary "Feuerherz" (publishing house of Droemer and Knaur).

Because of her book, Senait Mehary became an ambassador against recruiting child soldiers for big humanitarian organizations

• Aktion Weißes Friedensband gegen den Einsatz von Kindersoldaten
• UNICEF
• Misereor
• Terre des Hommes
• Karlheinz Böhms Menschen für Menschen).

In her book she presents herself as a one who has experienced the destiny of child soldiers. This mainly fabricated life story is now going to be filmed: the producer Andreas Bareiss and the film director Lugi Falomi in cooperation with Media Faculty of Weimar University in Germany are planning to make this film in Kenya according to the book "Feuerherz". (Press release of the Bauhaus University of Weimar in Germany, Faculty Media: On the way to Africa: http://idw-online.de/pages/de). Andreas Bareiss is the producer of "NOWHERE IN AFRICA" and he is an Oskar prize-winner. Luigi Falomi is the producer of the famous film The Story of the Weeping Camel, which has been nominated for Oskar.

After Senait Mehari with her best-seller has misled the readers, we see the situation dangerous for the grown friendship between Germany and Eritrea that can be risked by releasing of the promoted project in which a chapter of Eritrean history is distortedly shown, (Press Relations of the Federal Government: www.pressrelations.de/new/standard).

We, former students and founders of Tsebah School, testify that there were no child soldiers in our school and that Tsebah School was not a child soldiers recruiting camp.

Please help us to stop filming based on the so called biography of Senait Mehary. The making of film is going to start in July 2007 in Kenya.