Indonesia bans film about 1975 killings

[Coventina]

Source: Los Angeles Times

Reporting from Jakarta, Indonesia - The government here has banned a controversial Australian-made film that depicts the Indonesian military's reported 1975 execution of six foreign journalists in East Timor.

Indonesia's film censorship board announced last week that all screenings of the political thriller "Balibo," which documents the killings of the so-called Balibo Five, are forbidden.

The five -- two Australians, two Britons and a New Zealander -- were working for Australian television networks when they were allegedly murdered by Indonesian troops during the 1975 invasion of East Timor. The film is told through the eyes of veteran Australian reporter Roger East, who was also killed shortly after the Balibo Five.

The ban came just hours before the film's Jakarta premiere last week in a private screening that was organized by the Jakarta Foreign Correspondents Club.

Read more: http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-fg-indonesia-filmban7-2009dec07,0,3426428.story

[EFerrari]

1. And there but for the grace of something, could have gone Amy Goodman.

[Octafish]

2. Kissinger helped Ford do the wrong thing.

East Timor

Well, wrong for humanity; right for the BFEE.