This location was carefully chosen by Stallone because of his wanting to educate people about the situation in Burma. "I thought, Let me be a little responsible. Let's do something that's actually happening,' " he said. With the Burma situation being in the news recently about monks protesting, this movie could not have been released at a better time. "I just felt right now this is a great story," he told Lauer. "No one knows about Burma. Burma is a horrendous situation ... It's the longest-running civil war in the world, 60 years against these peasants, and it's horrifying. It isn't just a civil war. This is torture, beheadings, cannibalism, buried-alive children, it's the most horrific situation on the
This location was carefully chosen by Stallone because of his wanting to educate people about the situation in Burma. "I thought, Let me be a little responsible. Let's do something that's actually happening,' " he said. With the Burma situation being in the news recently about monks protesting, this movie could not have been released at a better time. "I just felt right now this is a great story," he told Lauer. "No one knows about Burma. Burma is a horrendous situation ... It's the longest-running civil war in the world, 60 years against these peasants, and it's horrifying. It isn't just a civil war. This is torture, beheadings, cannibalism, buried-alive children, it's the most horrific situation on the