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Title Anatomy of a massacre
Published 2010

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Location Call no. Vol. Availability
 W'PONDS  614.7095987 Sul/Aoa  2010/08/19  AVAILABLE
Description 1 videodisc (DVD) (55 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Summary "On November 12, 1991 an estimated 200 people were shot and killed by the Indonesian military during an independence march in occupied East Timor. Images of the massacre at the Santa Cruz cemetery in Dili, were eventually smuggled out of the country and became world news. The footage along with eyewitness testimony was instrumental in the country gaining independence. But the bodies of the dead protestors were never returned to family members and their location has remained a mystery. Nearly two decades after the massacre, an elite forensic team from Australia and Argentina begins an investigation to find the mass graves where the victims were secretly buried by the Indonesian miliatry. Grieving relatives may finally have an opportunity to reclaim and bury the bodies of their loved ones. Forensic anthropologist Dr Soren Blau from the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine in Melbourne is leading the investigation. It had taken Dr Blau several years to gain permission from the East Timorese authorities to begin the fieldwork as the investigation is politically sensitive. The findings of the forensic team could solve some unanswered questions about one of the most infamous mass murders of the 20th century. Exactly how many died? Was the massacre a tragic over-reaction by junior soldiers or were senior officers involved? Were there cold-blooded executions of xurvivors following the shooting at the cemetery? Cutting edge forensic science reveals new, disturbing evidence about what happened on that fateful day. But the chief mission of the forensic anthropologist is to return the remains to the families of the dead. With graphic archival material and witness testimonies, Anatomy of a Massacre also retells the story of the massacre itself. This is a landmark film about one of the most notorious massacres in recent history. It is a unique story that combines modern forensic science with powerful emotion." -- ABC website
Notes Off-air recording of ABC1 broadcast August 19, 2010. Copied under Part VA of the Copyright Act
Credits Director: Andrew Sully ; Producer: Michael Cordell, Co-Producer: Max Stahl
Performer Narrated by Jana Wendt
Notes Rated: M
Originally released : Screen Australia & Cordell Jigsaw Productions, 2010
DVD. Region unspecified
Available for Deakin University staff and students only
Subject Forensic anthropology -- East Timor
Human body -- Identification
Atrocities -- East Timor
Genocide -- East Timor
Self-determination, National -- East Timor
SUBJECT Indonesia -- Politics and government -- 1966-
Indonesia -- Militia
Author Sully, Andrew
Cordell, Michael
Stahl, Max
Wendt, Jana
ABC-TV (Australia)