# Passabe

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{{Short description|Village in Oecusse-Ambeno, East Timor}}
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{{About|the village|the [administrative post](/source/Administrative_posts_of_East_Timor)|Passabe Administrative Post}}
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'''Passabe''' is a small village in Suco Abani ([Passabe Administrative Post](/source/Passabe_Administrative_Post), [Oecusse-Ambeno](/source/Oecusse)) in [Timor-Leste](/source/Timor-Leste), near the Indonesian border. It was the site of a massacre of [East Timor](/source/East_Timor)ese by [pro-Indonesia militias](/source/pro-Indonesia_militias) in the follow-up to the 1999 referendum for Timor-Leste’s independence.

== In media ==
A [documentary film](/source/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](/source/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

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