Passabe
| Passabe | |||
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| Coordinates | 9 ° 28 ′ S , 124 ° 21 ′ E | ||
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| Country | East Timor | ||
| Oe-Cusse Ambeno | |||
| Administrative office | Passabe | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | TL-OE | ||
| Suco | Abani | ||
| height | 189 m | ||
Passabe ( Pasab , Pasabe , Pássabe ) is a village in the Passabe administrative office of the East Timorese exclave Oe-Cusse Ambeno .
geography
Passabe is located in Suco Abani , on the Rio Passabe , near the border between the East Timorese exclave Oe-Cusse Ambeno and the Indonesian West Timor at an altitude of 794 m above sea level. Most of the Sucos towns are in the immediate vicinity. Around the settlement center around Passabe there are two primary schools, a preparatory school for secondary school ( Escola Pre-Secundaria Passabe ), a community health center and an expanded helipad. Passabe is also an Aldeia headed by a Chefe de Aldeia .
history
Passabe was the scene of the worst massacre in Oe-Cusse Ambeno, during the riots following the 1999 independence referendum . Soldiers of the armed forces of Indonesia and 200 pro-Indonesian militiamen of the Sakunar ( Scorpio ) initially murdered 17 people between 7 and 9 September 1999 in what was then the sub-district of Oesilo in the villages of Tumin , Quiubiselo , Nonquican (all Suco Bobometo ) and Nibin ( Usitaqueno ) with machetes and firearms. Houses were burned down and the survivors were deported to West Timor , Indonesia . When they arrived in Inbate , 55 young men were separated, handcuffed and beaten by soldiers, police and militiamen. On the morning of September 10th, they were herded to Passabe on foot, and 47 shot and stabbed there. Eight men escaped.
From Singapore originating James Leong and Lynn Lee made a documentary film called Passabe who plays in the village. The film shows the lives of some of Passabe's residents five years after the violence. The life of a former member of the militia is also shown and how the community deals with what has happened. In January 2006, the film was banned from the Jakarta International Film Festival .
Web links
- Official Passabe film website
- Passabe in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of polling stations for the parliamentary elections in East Timor 2007 (PDF file; 118 kB)
- ↑ UNMIT card from August 2008 ( memento of the original from December 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 401 kB)
- ↑ Jornal da Républica with the Diploma Ministerial n. 199/09 ( Memento of February 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (Portuguese; PDF; 323 kB)
- ↑ Masters of Terror - Passabe massacre
- ↑ CAVR-Report: 7.2 Unlawful Killings and Enforced Disappearances ( Memento of the original from March 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English; PDF; 2.5 MB)
- ↑ CAVR-Report: Chapter 7.3: Forced Displacement and Famine ( Memento of the original from November 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English; PDF; 1.3 MB)
- ↑ Channel News Asia, January 4, 2006, S'pore film on Timorese village banned at Jakarta Film Festival ( Memento of March 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
