We've made this film about the genocide in Indonesia 1965 by General Suharto, his military and his gangs, with the aspirations and ambitions that "film can make a difference"*

The most remarkable you can say about our film is possibly that the president of the National Commission of Human Rights, Idfal Kassim, in a film interview for the first time admits that there WAS genocide: "We admit that the number of the victims were 500.000 or maybe a million". Killed how? Idfal Kassims subcomminsioner, Kabul Supriyadhie, classifies the killings as "extraordinary crimes". He talks about the victims from 1965 who were decapitated, their heads were given to their widows to carry them home.

The first of October 1965 a little group of leftist officers broke into the homes of six generals to anticipate a coup from American friendly officers ­ the leftist officers stated. The six generals were killed and thrown into the "Alligator Hole", a well in an area just outside the capital Jakarta. In his countercoup, general Suharto initiated the killings of one million so called communists and threw at least 200.000 people into jails and prison camps, where they were held from 9 up till 16 years without any trial or conviction.

TAPOL is the name of all those prisoners who were never tried in court or convicted, but nevertheless were tortured and withered away in prisons and camps during their entire youth. In this film you are going to hear the stories of TAPOLS who spent a long time in prison, mostly school teachers, former students, former housewives, trade unionists and foremost women from the women's movement Gerwani.

We have been able to gather archive pictures from the massacres and not at least are we for the first time able to show clips from the propaganda film made by Suharto, which was obligatory for all Indonesian school children every year for more than 20 years.