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September 9, 2009

Australian Police Probe Indonesian Killings of Journalists Covering Timor Invasion
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In Australia, police have opened a war crimes investigation into the
1975 killings of five Australian journalists by Indonesian troops in
East Timor. Australian television correspondent Greg Shackleton and his
crew had come to East Timor to report on the Indonesian invasion. The
probe comes nearly two years after an Australian coroner ruled the
journalists were killed by Indonesian troops. The killings were ordered
by Indonesian generals to prevent the journalists from exposing the
Indonesian military’s mass killings of Timorese.



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