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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Discerning truth in Balibo's fiction

    • Tim Kroenert
    • 20 August 2009
    5 Comments

    'Cinema,' says director Robert Connolly, 'can take the audience and show them a tragedy in a way that creates empathy. I was interested in exploring the ability of this country to compel people to tell its story. It's hard not to start caring for what happened there.'

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Gallipoli Diggers and the 'forgotten' holocaust

    • Nick Toscano
    • 20 April 2009
    43 Comments

    Although it was a military disaster, the battle of Gallipoli was a defining moment in Australia's history. But that same battle also marked a nation's destruction: a campaign was underway to exterminate the Armenian race.

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Pol Pot and the repentant Swede

    • Binoy Kampmark
    • 24 November 2008
    1 Comment

    Gunnar Bergstrom returned to Cambodia last week hoping to atone for his one-time approval of the Khmer Rouge's Year Zero. In 1978 he and his comrades from the Sweden-Kampuchea Friendship Association were hosted by a gracious and grateful Pol Pot.

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Shooting tourists in Cambodia

    • Elizabeth Ascroft
    • 26 June 2006
    2 Comments

    Tourists in Cambodia can combine a visit to the Killing Fields with a trip to the shooting range. There they can shoot at outlines of human bodies. The juxtaposition shows a lack of respect for the Cambodian dead.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Our killing fields

    • Bob Reece
    • 24 June 2006
    2 Comments

    Bob Reece reviews Patrick Collins’ Goodbye Bussamarai: The Mandandanji Land War, Southern Queensland 1842–1852.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Elusive justice

    • Madeleine Byrne
    • 14 May 2006

    Madeleine Byrne finds Getting Away with Genocide? Elusive Justice and the Khmer Rouge Tribunal, by Tom Fawthrop and Helen Jarvis, vivid and timely.

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Another African tragedy

    • Dorothy Horsfield
    • 21 April 2006

    For this peace prize winner, northern Uganda is the worst place on earth to be a child today.  

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