An international photographic exhibition which draws parallels between the Holocaust and the East Timor situation has opened in Dublin. "The Jewish Holocaust and genocide in East Timor" is touring Europe, Israel, Australia and the United States.
Members of the Jewish and East Timorese communities in Ireland were joined at the opening by Mr Louis Lentin, who produced the controversial Goldenbridge documentary, Dear Daughter, as well as the film on Ireland's approach to refugees during the war, No More Blooms.
The photographs trace the history of East Timor since its invasion by Indonesia in 1975. Also on display are photos of the Holocaust.
The East Timor Ireland Solidarity Campaign (ETISC) claims that 250,000 people, a third of the population of the island, have been killed since the invasion.
Mr Tom Hyland, co-ordinator of ETISC, said, "it seems that nothing has been learnt from the dreadful events of the Nazi Holocaust." The slow genocide of an innocent and peaceful population was continuing today unchallenged by the international community, he said.
The exhibition at the Irish Film Centre in Eustace Street is being hosted in association with the Descendants of the Shoah Inc and the Melbourne Jewish Holocaust Museum. It is open until tomorrow.