Jude Law Cringed During a Visit to Afghanistan

Wed, 12 September 2007 12:00:00 ET

Jude Law was amazed how people in war-torn country Afghanistan are not phased by the possibility of being blown by bombs or shot by bullets.

Jude Law has visited war-torn Afghanistan in a bid to promote world peace. The 'Cold Mountain' star travelled to the war-torn country to film a documentary about the United Nation's Peace Day on September 21, which the UN hopes will see a day-long global ceasefire.

Jude visited British troops, UN diplomats, Afghan government ministers, village elders and "many, many children" during the trip. He said: "It's amazing. You get there and they are going to school and to market and trying to hold down jobs and the fact that they could be blown to smithereens or every building has bullet holes in it doesn't seem to phase them. That said, I didn't have to hear a shot or a single bomb going off."

The trip was organized by Jude's friend Jeremy Gilley, founder of the charity Peace One Day, the driving force behind the idea of Peace Day. Jeremy claims he only invited Jude "as a joke" and was astounded when he agreed to go.

Despite being kept away from the most dangerous areas, the 34-year-old actor was shocked by the suffering of the country's children. Jude added to Britain's Daily Mirror newspaper: "I visited some dying babies in hospital in Jalalabad and they looked like chickens, they were so tiny and covered in their own diarrhoea. Those babies were going to die. As a father, that was so painful."

Jude - who is dad to Rafferty, 10, Iris, six, and five-year-old Rudy from his failed marriage to Sadie Frost - plans to fly from the set of his new film 'Repossession Mambo' in Toronto, Canada, to attend a special concert for global peace at London's Royal Albert Hall on September 21. Jude and Jeremy's documentary is due to premiere next spring.

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