Film ini dibuat oleh Maj Wechsellmann, panjang 83 menit, dipertunjukkan di Bioskop Zita di Stockholm dan pada film festival di Gothenburg , bisa lihatvideo footage pada youtube : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRH38bC-kG0
http://www.thewomenandthegenerals.com/ THE WOMEN AND THE GENERALS from The Women and The Generals on Vimeo. For a YouTube-video, which can be viewed on a cellphone, scroll down. THE WOMEN AND THE GENERALS - KVINNORNA OCH GENERALERNA a film by Maj Wechselmann DIRECTORS' STATEMENT We've made this film about the genocide in Indonesia 1965 by General Suharto, his military and his gangs, with the aspirations and ambitions that "film can make a difference"* The most remarkable you can say about our film is possibly that the president of the National Commission of Human Rights, Idfal Kassim, in a film interview for the first time admits that there WAS genocide: "We admit that the number of the victims were 500.000 or maybe a million". Killed how? Idfal Kassims subcomminsioner, Kabul Supriyadhie, classifies the killings as "extraordinary crimes". He talks about the victims from 1965 who were decapitated, their heads were given to their widows to carry them home. The first of October 1965 a little group of leftist officers broke into the homes of six generals to anticipate a coup from American friendly officers - the leftist officers stated. The six generals were killed and thrown into the "Alligator Hole", a well in an area just outside the capital Jakarta. In his countercoup, general Suharto initiated the killings of one million so called communists and threw at least 200.000 people into jails and prison camps, where they were held from 9 up till 16 years without any trial or conviction. TAPOL is the name of all those prisoners who were never tried in court or convicted, but nevertheless were tortured and withered away in prisons and camps during their entire youth. In this film you are going to hear the stories of TAPOLS who spent a long time in prison, mostly school teachers, former students, former housewives, trade unionists and foremost women from the women's movement Gerwani. We have been able to gather archive pictures from the massacres and not at least are we for the first time able to show clips from the propaganda film made by Suharto, which was obligatory for all Indonesian school children every year for more than 20 years. * That film can make a difference has been proved two times in the case of the violations of human rights committed by the Indonesian army. 1. In November 1991 the young female journalist, Amy Goodman and a TV-crew, documented Indonesian soldiers massacring several hundreds of civilians at the Santa Cruz Cemetery in Dili, East Timor. One of the crewmembers was almost killed by the Indonesian soldiers. The pictures were cabled out worldwide, contributed to international awareness of the gruesome repression by the Indonesian army and finally led to the UN-sanctions against Indonesia. 2. Recently another film has made an international audience aware of the Indonesian cruelties: The Balibo-film, produced in Australia about a team of five Australian journalists who were reporting about the Indonesian invasion in East Timor to SBS (the Australian television broadcasting system). They were tortured and murdered by the Indonesian army, their bodies were burned. Due to the good business-relations between Australia and Indonesia, this misdeed was blackened, but the fiction film about the fate of the young journalists has raised a public storm in Australia and after 44 years of silence the Australian police authorities have been forced to reopen the murder case on the now liberated East Timor, where witnesses, even Indonesian officers, have come forward and told about the killing of the journalists. According to Reuters, this has resulted in a "chilling" of the diplomatic relations between Indonesia and Australia - Not bad for a fiction film. --- The Women and The Generals, the trailer on YouTube: [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
