Death of a Nation: The Timor Conspiracy
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Death of a Nation: The Timor Conspiracy |
| Country of production | United Kingdom |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1994 |
| length | 96 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | David Munro |
| script | John Pilgrim |
| production | David Munro |
| music | Ágio Pereira |
| camera |
Bob Bolt Preston Clothier Simon Fanthorpe David Munro Max Stahl |
| cut | Joe Frost |
| occupation | |
Death of a Nation: The Timor Conspiracy is a British documentary released in 1994 .
Content and contributors
The film was produced by David Munro for British Central Independent Television . The journalist John Pilger denounces the Indonesian mass murder in East Timor (" genocide ") with at least 200,000 deaths during the occupation (1975-1999) and compares the situation in the Gulf War (1990/1991). In the updated version released in 1999, Pilgrims accused Australia , the United States and Great Britain of complicity in the crimes.
Munro and Pilger were also able to get to East Timor for the shooting. They show secretly shot shots of the landscape, internment camps and the FALINTIL guerrilla fighters . East Timorese in exile as well as Australian, British and Indonesian diplomats and politicians have their say in interviews. Recordings of the Santa Cruz massacre are also shown.
The music was contributed by the later East Timorese minister Ágio Pereira .
background
Political support for Indonesia by Australia and the United States is well documented. Both states gave Indonesia's President Suharto the green light for the invasion. With the Timor Gap Treaty, Australia benefited directly from drawing a border in the Timor Sea that was favorable for itself and was intended to facilitate the exploitation of the raw materials there.
American and British shipments of arms were used in fighting the East Timorese resistance, including American and British planes.
The alleged compulsory sterilization and contraceptive measures that the Indonesians are accused of in the film could not later be proven by the East Timor Reception, Truth and Reconciliation Commission .
actors
- Alan Clark , former UK Defense Secretary
- James Dunn , former Australian consul in East Timor
- Gareth Evans , Australian Secretary of State
- Abel Guterres , East Timorese exile
- José Ramos-Horta , Foreign Minister of the East Timorese government in exile
- C. Philip Liechty, chief CIA agent in Indonesia
- Nino Konis Santana , Commander of the East Timorese Military Resistance
- Shirley Shackleton, wife of murdered Australian reporter Greg Shackleton (see Balibo Five )
- Mário Soares , President Portugal
- Sir Alan Thomas , a leading figure in British arms exports
- Nugroho Wisnumurti , Permanent Representative of Indonesia to the United Nations
- Richard Woolcott , former Australian Ambassador to Indonesia
Reviews
Philip Horne of the British Telegraph counts the film on his list of “Ten Documentaries That Shook the World.” Although he sees pilgrims on a political crusade that cares neither about balance nor objectivity, he attests to “wild perseverance when he examines how things work in the globalized world. ”The film shows with“ a deep intuition ”what western governments are capable of on behalf of their citizens.
Freedocumentaries.org states: "But no one watching the massacre in the Dili cemetery can excuse the geopolitical machinations that led to this genocide."
Robert Hanks of the Independent sees the documentary as a black-and-white way of thinking, in which Pilger offers pilgrims with his “moral certainties a welcome change from modern politics”. The film is a "powerful piece of filmmaking". The new version is also an “admission of failure”, since the five-year-old first version already showed pilgrims what horrific crimes are taking place in East Timor. As a result, the UK got a government committed to ethical foreign policy, but still involved in this crime, so Hanks wonders where the power of television is.
Awards
Author John Pilger received the Ordem de Timor-Leste in recognition of his reporting on the Indonesian atrocities in East Timor and in particular for the film on May 5, 2017 .
David Munro received the Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival Zapper Award in 1994.
See also
Web links
- To The death of a Nation on the homepage of John Pilger
- Death of a Nation: The Timor Conspiracy in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Robert Hanks: Television Review , in: The Independent, January 27, 1999 , accessed July 9, 2019.
- ↑ IDFA: Death of a Nation - The Timor Conspiracy , accessed July 9, 2019.
- ↑ Top Documentary Films: Death of a Nation - The Timor Conspiracy , accessed July 9, 2019.
- ↑ Death of a Nation: The Timor Conspiracy in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- ↑ a b "Part 3: The History of the Conflict" (PDF; 1.4 MB) from the "Chega!" Report of the CAVR (English)
- ↑ a b Green Left Weekly: East Timor's universal lesson , May 11, 2017 , accessed July 9, 2019.
- ↑ Timor-Leste Memória: Controlo de natalidade (English)
- ^ J. Atticus Ryan, Christopher A. Mullen: Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization: Yearbook 1997. p. 75.
- ^ Louise Olsson: Gender Equality and United Nations Peace Operations in Timor Leste. 2009, ISBN 978-90-04-17549-5 , pp. 66-67.
- ↑ Philip Horne: Ten documentaries that shook the world in: The Telegraph, August 4, 2007 , accessed July 9, 2019.
- ↑ freedocumentaries.org: Death of A Nation: The Timor Conspiracy , accessed July 9, 2019.