Cow-Tipping Intelligence
The scene opens with an elderly man steering a large herd of long-horned cattle along a path well worn by animal tracks. It is dry season, and the cattle are being driven down the same path similar herds have migrated along for centuries following the river. The herd and herdsmen move deliberately but cautiously against a backdrop of dense tropical rainforest and low African grasslands. An open-air market bustles with activity in a nearby village. As the camera pans further north along the cattle trail, a criminal gang can be seen on foot with rifles and recently poached ivory slung across their shoulders. When it zooms out over the canopy, we catch a brief glimpse of an insurgent leadership ring breaking camp. The sound of a Ugandan military helicopter gunship can be heard in the distance…
