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Subject: [indonesia-act] ETAN projects images from the Oscar-nominated
documentary THE ACT OF KILLING on World Bank headquarters
Contact: John M. Miller +1-718-596-7668;
+1-917-690-4391; <mailto:john@etan.org>john@etan.org
East Timor and Indonesian Action Network
projects images from the Oscar-nominated
documentary THE ACT OF KILLING on World Bank headquarters
Human Rights group calls on World Bank to
acknowledge role in the mass killing of one million Indonesians
February 20, 2014 – The Oscar-nominated
documentary THE ACT OF KILLING was projected on
the World Bank headquarters in Washington, D.C.
Thursday in an action by the East Timor and
Indonesian Action Network. The group is calling
on the World Bank to acknowledge its role in the
1965 military coup in Indonesia that lead to the
massacre of an estimated one million civilians.
The World Bank helped prop up the corrupt
government of Suharto, the general who lead the
coup and ordered the mass killings. The Bank sent
the Suharto regime $30 billion in development aid
over the course of three decades despite knowing
$10 billion had been looted by the government.
"THE ACT OF KILLING powerfully highlights the
ongoing impunity within Indonesia for the 1965
mass murders," said John M. Miller of the East
Timor and Indonesian Action Network. "Tonight we
highlight the World Bank's support for the
Suharto regime, which knowingly backed his
corrupt government while his post-coup body count
climbed. We urge the World Bank to acknowledge
its role in Suharto's many crimes and to
apologize and provide reparations to the
survivors. Institutions like the World Bank must
also be held accountable for their financial
assistance to the murderers and decades of
support as they continued to violate human rights."
"The World Bank gave $30 billion dollars to a
dictator who killed an estimated one million of
his own citizens," said THE ACT OF KILLING
filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer. "The murderers
spent years profiting off of their heinous crimes
with the World Bank and other global financial institutions footing the
bill."
THE ACT OF KILLING, currently Oscar-nominated for
Best Documentary feature, has been recognized as
one of the best films of 2014. The film has
received over 60 awards including Best
Documentary from the British Academy of Film and
Television Arts (BAFTA). While the mass killings
of 1965 are an open secret in Indonesia, the
government has never acknowledged or apologized
for sponsoring the murders. THE ACT OF KILLING,
which has been shown in thousands of private
screenings and is available free online
throughout Indonesia, is empowering victims'
families to demand reparations from the government for the first time.
About East Timor and Indonesian Action Network
The East Timor and Indonesia Action Network
(ETAN) advocates for democracy, justice and human
rights for Timor-Leste, West Papua and Indonesia.
In 2012, the government of the Democratic
Republic Timor-Leste awarded ETAN the Order of
Timor (Ordem Timor) for its role in the
liberation of the country. More information about
ETAN can be found at: <http://www.etan.org/>http://www.etan.org
About THE ACT OF KILLING
In THE ACT OF KILLING, directed by Joshua
Oppenheimer and executive produced by Errol
Morris and Werner Herzog, the filmmakers expose a
corrupt regime that celebrates death squad leaders as heroes.
When the Indonesian government was overthrown in
1965, small-time gangster Anwar Congo and his
friends went from selling movie tickets on the
black market to leading death squads in the mass
murder of over a million opponents of the new
military dictatorship. Anwar boasts of killing
hundreds with his own hands, but he's enjoyed
impunity ever since, and has been celebrated by
the Indonesian government as a national hero.
When approached to make a film about their role
in the genocide, Anwar and his friends eagerly
complybut their idea of being in a movie is not
to provide reflective testimony. Instead, they
re-create their real-life killings as they dance
their way through musical sequences, twist arms
in film noir gangster scenes, and gallop across
prairies as Western cowboys. Through this
filmmaking process, the moral reality of the act
of killing begins to haunt Anwar and his friends
with varying degrees of acknowledgment,
justification and denial. More information about
the film can be found at <http://actofkilling.com/>http://actofkilling.com/.
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Victims of the 1965/66 mass killing in Indonesia
demand an apology, reparations. Sign the petition: www.change.org/saysorry
Order The Act of Killing here and support ETAN -
http://etan.org/action/saysorry.htm
John M. Miller, National Coordinator
East Timor & Indonesia Action Network (ETAN)
Phone: +1-718-596-7668 Mobile phone: +1-917-690-4391
Email: etan@igc.org Skype: john.m.miller Twitter: @etan009
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Indonesia
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