3-536: Passabe is a small village in Suco Abani ( Passabe Administrative Post , Oecusse-Ambeno ), near the Indonesian border. It was the site of a massacre of East Timorese by pro-Indonesia militias in the follow-up to the 1999 referendum for East Timor's independence. A documentary film , Passabe , directed by James Leong and Lynn Lee, was produced. The film documents the lives of several Passabe residents five years after
6-450: Is an administrative post (and was formerly a subdistrict) in the Oecusse municipality and Special Administrative Region (SAR) of East Timor , which is an exclave surrounded on three sides by Indonesian West Timor . Its seat or administrative centre is the suco of Abani. In the 2004 census it had a population of 7,531 people in 1,153 households. Passabe is a small village (sulo) in
9-706: The violence, including the life of a former militia member, and documented the ways in which the community has come to terms with what happened. In January 2006, the film was banned at the Jakarta International Film Festival. 9°21′51″S 124°20′36″E / 9.36417°S 124.34333°E / -9.36417; 124.34333 This East Timor location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Passabe Administrative Post Passabe , officially Passabe Administrative Post ( Portuguese : Posto Administrativo de Passabe , Tetum : Postu administrativu Pásabe ),
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