  He was astounded by the plight of an 18 year old pregnant woman who paid a taxi driver to smuggle her in to South Africa but ended up raped by a friend of the taxi driver. Damon was, in the words of the article, shocked and saddened - no doubt he had a utopian view of Africa that was shattered - perhaps he believed that South Africa was the worstest country in sub-saharan Africa and his fragile world view took a severe hit when he decided he was going to make a movie about it?  I'm sure he'll depict her story in the movie he is currently filming about the first black president of South Africa starring Morgan Freeman.  During Blood Diamond the character portrayed by Leonardo Dicaprio said that his family was murdered and his mother was raped in front of him before being murdered, but of course the audience was left to their own liberal machinations in constructing a scenario regarding who might have raped and murdered his mother.  Has this Hollywood retard ever heard of Christian Channon? I think he needs to shut his squeak-hole and keep out of intl politics.