Two simple words - “I’m Australian” - will take on harrowing new connotations, viewers simultaneously confronted with both their meaning and their futility. Chalk Balibo down as a must-see and take a cold shower afterwards. http://blogs.crikey.com.au/cinetology/2009/07/21/balibo-film-review-a-dynamite-aussie-expose/

We saw Balibo film today. It is set in East Timor where 5 journalists from Oz were murdered by invading Indonesian military in 1975 when they crossed the border of West/East Timor.

It is told mostly from perspective of another Oz journo Roger East who showed up soon after to find out what happened to them and was subsequently murdered too - in Dili by the Kopassus (SAS death squad style dudes) who were parachuted in by Suharto regime with US blessing;

Prez Ford & Kissinger visited Soeharto Inc and day after they departed invasion began... Oz govt of Whitlam and then Fraser etc supplied intelligence to Indon's "anti-commo purge" of East Timor - really Indon's capture of strategic oil and gas resources when Portugal departed its colonies.

La Via Campesina youth from South East and East Asia mobilise! La Via Campesina - South East Asia and East Asia held it’s second youth assembly in Dili, Timor Leste on March 25-29, 2009.

Youth leaders from Thailand, Indonesia, Philippine, South Korea, Japan, Australia and Timor Leste shared and discussed the youth situation and the role of youth in the country and our commitment to struggle for food sovereignty. The youth spent a few days in Timor Leste where they lived and learnt from the community of Uma Kaduak village, district of Manatutu.