Mr. AKBAR: I think it cannot be underestimated how much of a shock this would have on people in Afghanistan watching the screen, I think the one thing which you need to realize is that the rape in the movie involves people - I mean, it involves two kids that are from different ethnic groups.

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Bale was in China to promote his movie about the Rape of Nanking by Japanese troops in 1937.

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With the victim's name yet to be released, news organizations have given her fictional names such as "Nirbhaya, " or Fearless One, and "Damini, " the name of a Hindi movie about a rape victim's fight for justice.

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