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East Timor Peace Mission |
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In 1992, 120 students and journalists from around the world gathered in Lisbon, Portugal to embark upon a peaceful protest against the atrocities committed toward the East Timorese people since 1975 when Portugal granted the colony its independence and Indonesia invaded. The protesters boarded a boat in Darwin, Australia and sailed to East Timor, where they intended to lay wreaths of flowers on the graves of the hundreds of Timorese who had been massacred by Indonesian soldiers while they were mourning in a cemetary in November, 1991. This video documents the fears and hopes of the protesters, the aggressive reaction of the Indonesians to the mission, and the stand-off as the boat approached the shores of East Timor, and is part of a permanent installation on the atrocities in East Timor in Lisbon, Portugal. Written,
Directed, Edited and Produced by Geneviève Appleton
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