Shooting Balibo: Blood & Memory in East Timor

Judul	:	Shooting Balibo: Blood & Memory in East Timor
Penulis	:	Tony Maniaty
Penerbit	:	Penguin Books
Bahasa	:	Inggris
Tahun Cetak	:	2009
Halaman	:	-
ISBN	:	978-067-007-358-0
Harga	:	Rp. -
Status	:	Kosong

 

In 1975, journalist Tony Maniaty flew to the Portuguese colony of East Timor looking for a war to film. He found it a dusty outpost called Balibo.

Maniaty and his ABC News crew were shelled and five other television newsman who followed were murdererd by Indonesian troops. Maniaty reported the Balibo Five story, faced death threats and fled before the Indonesian forces invaded. The only foreign journalist left in the country was executed in cold blood. The generation-long nightmare of the Timorese had begun.

In Shooting Balibo he teams up with the cast and crew of the feature film Balibo, retraces his days of danger, and dines with Jose Ramos-Horta as the independence faighter-turner-President recovers from an assassination attampt.

But Maniaty’s real purpose is to visit Balibo for the first time since 1975. When he steps into burned-out house where his colleagues were slaughtered thirty-three years ago, past and present collide before his eyes.