Passabe

{{Short description|Village in Oecusse-Ambeno, East Timor}} {{Expand German|topic=geo|date=November 2010|Passabe}} {{EngvarB|date=September 2022}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2022}} {{About|the village|the administrative post|Passabe Administrative Post}} right|260px '''Passabe''' is a small village in Suco Abani (Passabe Administrative Post, Oecusse-Ambeno) in Timor-Leste, 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 Timor-Leste’s independence.

== In media == A documentary film, ''Passabe'', directed by James Leong and Lynn Lee, was produced.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2006-04-12 |title=Anger and accolades for Timor expose |url=https://www.scmp.com/article/544447/anger-and-accolades-timor-expose |access-date=2026-05-25 |website=South China Morning Post |language=en}}</ref> The film documents the lives of several Passabe residents five years after 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.<ref name=":0" />

In January 2006, the film was banned at the Jakarta International Film Festival.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20071001091318/http://www.channelnewsasia.com/cgi-bin/search/search_7days.pl?status=&search=passabe&id=186613 S'pore film on Timorese village banned at Jakarta Film Festival], Valarie Tan, Channel NewsAsia 04 Jan 2006 (Internet archive stored page)</ref>

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Category:Populated places in Oecusse