Oscar-nominated 'Act of Killing' confronts Indonesia's dark past

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Oscar-nominated 'Act of Killing' confronts Indonesia's dark past

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/oscar-nominated-39-act-killing-39-confronts-indonesia-053144805.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/.vbhwJlrP01mhRRjN9hxug--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/757728345bb39f3085e26ce08d8a8761661fdaac.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="Adi Zulkadry and Anwar Congo, two of the subjects featured in 'The Act of Killing', directed by Joshua Oppenheimer, are being prepped by a make-up artist for a recreation of one of the 1965 massacres in Medan, Indonesia" align="left" title="Adi Zulkadry and Anwar Congo, two of the subjects featured in 'The Act of Killing', directed by Joshua Oppenheimer, are being prepped by a make-up artist for a recreation of one of the 1965 massacres in Medan, Indonesia" border="0" /></a>Anwar Congo makes no secret of the fact that he killed about 1,000 people with his bare hands, boasting about the methods he used to murder alleged communists in 1960s Indonesia. Congo's testimony provides the chilling framework for director Joshua Oppenheimer's Oscar-nominated documentary &quot;The Act of Killing&quot;, which turns its cameras on to the perpetrators of massacres that claimed at least 500,000 lives. Oppenheimer says that the attention the film has received around the world is forcing Indonesia to address a dark episode in its history, which ushered in the 32-year rule of dictator Suharto. &quot;I thought I had wandered into Germany 40 years after the Holocaust to find the Nazis were still in power,&quot; Oppenheimer said of the men who feature in his documentary.</p><br clear="all"/>

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