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December 8, 2009

Ex-Indonesian Officer: Australian Journalists Were Slain for Covering Timor Invasion
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In Indonesia, a former army officer has admitted that five Australian
journalists were deliberately murdered while covering the US-backed
Indonesian invasion of East Timor in 1975. Speaking to the news magazine
Tempo, former Indonesian special forces commando Gatot Purwanto said the
five were killed out of fear they would expose the invasion and killings
of Timorese. Purwanto’s admission is believed to be the first by an
Indonesian military officer involved in the invasion. Monday marked the
invasion’s thirty-four-year anniversary.



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