$32.95 (Trade paperback / Viking / ISBN:9780670073580)
Shooting Balibo: Blood and Memory in East Timor
In 1975, journalist Tony Maniaty flew to the Portuguese colony of East Timor looking for a war to film. He found it at a dusty outpost called Balibo.
Maniaty and his ABC News crew were shelled and five other television newsmen who followed were murdered 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 East 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 fighter-turned-President recovers from an assassination attempt.
But Maniaty's real purpose is to visit Balibo for the first time since 1975. When he steps into the burned-out house where his colleagues were slaughtered thirty-three years ago, past and present collide before his eyes.
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Shooting Balibo: Blood and Memory in East Timor
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Viking )
In 1975, journalist Tony Maniaty flew to the Portuguese colony of East Timor looking for a war to film. He found it at a dusty outpost called Balibo.
Maniaty and his ABC News crew were shelled and five other television n... More »
Bitter Dawn: East Timor A People's History
$49.95 (Paperback book / Zed Books )
Few new nations have endured a birth as traumatic as that endured by Asia's youngest country, East Timor. Emerging from the flames, pillage and mayhem that surrounded Indonesia 's reluctant withdrawal in 1999, it has bee... More »
Unfinished Nation: Indonesia Before And After Suharto
$49.95 (Paperback book / Verso )
Illuminating account of the turbulent history of twentieth-century Indonesia. Unfinished Nation traces the evolution of Indonesia from its anti-colonial stirrings in the early twentieth century to the lengthy, and eventu... More »
Resistance: A Childhood Fighting For East Timor
$34.95 (Trade paperback / Univ Queensland Pr )
I am by myself, a little boy squatting outside the cave where we are in hiding, looking up at the surrounding hama trees, their roots fiercely grabbing the earth, their trunks as solid as the ancestors ...East Timor has ... More »
Peacekeeping In East Timor
$29.95 (Paperback book / Lynne Reiner Pub )
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Wake In Fright
$23.95 (Paperback book / Text Publishing )
May you dream of the devil and wake in fright. An old curse
John Grant knows he’s in hell. What he doesn’t know is how to escape.
‘In the town of Bundanyabba, a young schoolmaster discovers gambling, ruins himself fi... More »
Shooting Balibo: Blood and Memory in East Timor
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Viking )
In 1975, journalist Tony Maniaty flew to the Portuguese colony of East Timor looking for a war to film. He found it at a dusty outpost called Balibo.
Maniaty and his ABC News crew were shelled and five other television n... More »
