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Soldier’s Bones
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Soldier’s Bones

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Movies that Matter On Tour brings a selection of impactful festival films to LHC. Films that move, challenge, connect and inspire change. Always with context: your local volunteers provide an introduction or follow-up discussion with guest speakers at each screening. This time with Julie Fraser and Tam Ngo. Julie Fraser is a human rights lawyer and scholar with the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM) and the Montaigne Centre at Utrecht University. Tam Ngo is a Senior Researcher/Associate Professor at NIOD and leads the research programme Bones of Contention: Technologies of Identification and Politics of Reconciliation in Vietnam. 
 
In 1971, 27-year-old Newsweek reporter Alec Shimkin discovers a secret US-led military campaign in Vietnam. The story is about to reveal war crimes on an immense scale, undeniably Pullitzer-worthy material. But the Scoop never got the exposure it deserved: though published in Newsweek, Shimkin’s findings were tucked away in a small sidebar, far from the front-page attention they warrented. Soon after, he went missing-in-action in Vietnam. What story did we truly miss?

Credits

Regie
Kasper Verkaik
Genre
Documentary
Speelduur
90 min.
Land
Nederland
Taal
English, Vietnamese
Ondertiteling
English

Omschrijving

In 1971, 27-year-old Newsweek reporter Alec Shimkin discovers a secret US-led military campaign in Vietnam. The story is about to reveal war crimes on an immense scale, undeniably Pullitzer-worthy material. But the Scoop never got the exposure it deserved: though published in Newsweek, Shimkin’s findings were tucked away in a small sidebar, far from the front-page attention they warrented. Shimkin’s discovery was Operation Speedy Express, a campaign that may have involved war crimes on a scale that makes the infamous My Lai massacre pale by comparrison. Yet almost no one knows the full truth, because Alec himself vanished before he could bring it to light. In the trail of Alec’s quest and his childhood obsession for war, the documentary Soldier’s Bones, directed by Kasper Verkaik, searches for the deadly echo of Speedy Express in the Mekong Delta.

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