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Melbourne.
Viking.
2009
311pp, paperback. 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. 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. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 128859)
ISBN: 9780670073580
Related Subject Areas:
Battles & campaigns
Biography & autobiography
c 1970 to c 1980
East Timor
from c 1945 -
Military history
Reportage & collected journalism: from c 1900 -
World history: postwar
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