Daily Beast: George Clooney’s War on Kleptocracy In South Sudan

Getting Americans to care about human-rights atrocities half-a-world away is hard. Getting them fired up about confronting the corruption that fuels those slaughters is an order of magnitude harder. But that’s what actor George Clooney and human-rights activist John Prendergast are aiming to do with their new project, The Sentry.

“You can’t shame war criminals,” explains Clooney. But, he says, “You canshame people in the international community: banks and bankers, lawyers. There’s a lot of people that you can shame who don’t want to be associated with atrocities.”

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