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   UCLA Today "10 Questions for Robert Lemelson"

   10 Questions for Robert Lemelson by Ajay Singh on February 5, 2009

   In 1965-66, between 500,000 and 1 million Indonesians were slaughtered in one of the most barbaric state-sponsored humanitarian tragedies of the modern world. Long denied by the Indonesian government, the little-known massacre is mentioned in President...

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   Harvard Crimson "Breaking the 'Silence'"

   Breaking the 'Silence' by Anita B. Hofschneider on February 20, 2009

   "I want to torture people the way they did my family," proclaims Budi, a young Indonesian boy, at the start of Robert B. Lemelson's documentary film, "40 Years of Silence: An Indonesian Tragedy." Such is the sentiment that now prevails over the long...

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   Voice of America - TV Interview

   On May 19, director Robert Lemelson was interviewed by Naratama from Voice of America: Pop Notes, Indonesia, about 40 Years of Silence and it was broadcast on TV in Indonesia. Video courtesy of VOA. Watch it here: VOA Interview

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   Jakarta Globe "Breaking the 40 Year Silence About the Anti-Communist Purge"

   "Breaking the 40 Years Silence About the Anti-Communist Purge"

   A feature-length documentary that was shown at the Boston International Film Festival over the weekend is an intergenerational depiction of the 1965-66 anti-Communist purge, in which an estimated 500,000 Indonesians were killed at the hands of the...

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   Jakarta Globe, "1965 Mass Killings Erased From History, Scholars Say"

   "1965 Mass Killings Erased From History, Scholars Say" by Armando Silahaan on June 19, 2009

   Singapore. Scholars attending a conference discussing the 1965 mass killings agreed on Friday that the Indonesian government had done very little to address the devastating historical event.

   University of Sydney’s...

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   Jakarta Globe, "Giving Voice to the Silenced Past"

   by Armando Siahaan on June 1, 2009

   Robert Lemelson’s documentary opens with an astute statement: “It is one of the largest unrecognized mass killings of the 20th century.”

   “It” was a nationwide purge by the Suharto-led Armed Forces following an alleged failed coup by the Indonesian...

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   Jakarta Post, "Robert Lemelson: Indonesia, a paradise for work and study"

   Robert Lemelson: Indonesia, a paradise for work and study by Sri Wahyuni on August 2, 2009

   The first time he arrived in Bali as a tourist in 1993, American researcher, philanthropist and documentary filmmaker Robert Lemelson from the University of California, Los Angeles, (UCLA) promptly felt a great affection and...

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   Jakarta Post, "Digging into Indonesia's `black hole of silence'"

   "Digging into Indonesia's 'black hole of silence'" by Isabel Esterman on 8/1/2009
   Beginning in October 1965, hundreds of thousands of Indonesians were killed in a state-sanctioned mass murder of accused communists. Neighbors killed neighbors, and bodies piled into mass graves across the archipelago. It was one of...

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   YINZ/YIDS Blog, "Indonesian genocide shows parallels to Holocaust"

   "Indonesian genocide shows parallels to the holocaust" from the staff of The Jewish Chronicle on Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 1:29PM

   Dr. Robert Lemelson, the director of "40 Years of Silence: An Indonesian Tragedy," was in town on Monday to speak at a panel discussion at Seton Hill University following...

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    CSUS StateHornet.com, "Indonesian suffering exposed in film"

    Indonesian suffering exposed in film," by Julia Blum on 11/18/2009
    More than 50 Sacramento State students gathered to watch "40 Years of Silence: An Indonesian Tragedy," on Tuesday evening and learned about the mass killings of Indonesia during 1965 with a forum with the film's director.

    The film was...

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    Seton Hill University Blog, "Film Screening and Discussion"

    Film Screening and Discussion of "40 Years of Silence: An Indonesian Tragedy" Examines Effects of Hidden Genocide by Jennifer McGuiggan
    The second day of the Ethel LeFrak Holocaust Education Conference 2009 concluded with a screening and panel discussion of the documentary film “Forty Years of Silence: An...

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   40 Years of Silence - An Indonesian Tragedy