Bitter Paradise: The Sellout of East Timor
working TV Special
first broadcast
Wed. Sept. 1 1999, 7:00 - 8:00 pm,
and Fri. Sept. 3 1999, 1:00 - 2:00 pm
RT: 57:30 each
On Monday August 30 nearly 450,000 registered voters in East Timor will vote Yes or No on independence from Indonesia. But Indonesia's promise of free and fair elections is ringing false. The Indonesian military continues to do what it has done since it invaded East Timor in 1975: it is brutally and violently repressing the will of the Timorese people. This has included a campaign of genocide that has killed more than 200,000.
| Idyllic image from Bitter Paradise: an East Timorese woman at work. |  |
 | The reality of Indonesian occupation of East Timor, from Bitter Paradise |
Bitter Paradise: the Sellout of East Timor is a great resource for those wanting to more about the situation East Timor. Produced by Elaine Briere, a local filmmaker and photographer, it also documents "Canada's shameless . . . support for a predatory military regime. And its the story of Elaine Briere's personal political journey, from the villages of East Timor to the halls of the United Nations, from political innocence to political activism."
Bitter Paradise: the Sellout of East Timor won the 1997 Toronto Hot Docs Political Documentary award, as well as critical acclaim from reviewers across the country. Don't miss it!
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East Timor
from our archives:
1. East Timor Special:
Taped at a public meeting March 8 1997, during the Vancouver visit of Dr. Jose Ramos Horta, the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize Winner and Timorese freedom activist. Hosted by Burnaby NDP MP Svend Robinson, and featuring a brief talk by Bitter Paradise(above) filmmaker, Elaine Briere.
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 | Speakers featured in our 1997 "East Timor Special" program |
2. Bella Galhos:
Taped at November 1997 2nd International Women's Conference Against APEC featuring Timorese exile Bella Galhos, and concluding with a powerful Timorese resistance song by 5 Timorese women living in exile..
| Bella Galhos, East Timorese exile now living in Canada: she is also featured in Elaine Briere's Bitter Paradise: the Sellout of East Timor (above) |  |
 | Timorese women living in exile in different countries, brought together at the 2nd International Women's Conference on APEC |
3. ETAN Rally:
Taped in November 1997 just before the 1997 APEC conference in Vancouver, organized by the East Timor Alert Network (ETAN), at the Vancouver Art Gallery.
East Timor links:
East Timor Alert Network (ETAN)
Canadian Action for Indonesia and East Timor (CAFIET)
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