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Tempo Interactive- Friday, 09 July, 2010
TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta:Five Australian journalists who died in Balibo, East Timor, in October 1975, were not burned as has been reported by the police. They were buried in Tanah Kusir Cemetary in South Jakarta.
The investigation carried out by the New South Wales court found that the five journalists Greg Shackleton, Garry Cunningham, Brian Peters, Tony Stewart, and Malcolm Rennie, were killed by Indonesian soldiers.
Shirley Shackleton, the widow of Greg Shackleton, visited the graveyard this morning (9/7). In her letter on January 2010 to the then Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, Shirley claimed she received information that her husband was secretly buried in Tanah Kusir in 1975.
The whereabouts of the five Australian journalists’ bodies have always been a controversy. In November 12, 1975, Indonesian military officer, Gen. Yoga Soegama, reportedly handed four boxes containing the remains of the Balibo victims to the Australian Ambassador to Indonesia at that time, Richard Woolcott.
A year later in 1976, Jose Martins, an activist of Apodeti, a political party in East Timor supporting Indonesian invasion, who fled to Australia, handed a box of skeletons claimed to be that of the Balibo Five, to the Australian Journalist Association.
Meanwhile, a former officer of red berets, Col. Gatot Purwanto, who was in Balibo at that time, stressed that his troop burned the bodies of the five journalists to “remove any traces.”
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Tempo Interactive- Friday, 09 July, 2010
TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta:Five Australian journalists who died in Balibo, East Timor, in October 1975, were not burned as has been reported by the police. They were buried in Tanah Kusir Cemetary in South Jakarta.
The investigation carried out by the New South Wales court found that the five journalists Greg Shackleton, Garry Cunningham, Brian Peters, Tony Stewart, and Malcolm Rennie, were killed by Indonesian soldiers.
Shirley Shackleton, the widow of Greg Shackleton, visited the graveyard this morning (9/7). In her letter on January 2010 to the then Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, Shirley claimed she received information that her husband was secretly buried in Tanah Kusir in 1975.
The whereabouts of the five Australian journalists’ bodies have always been a controversy. In November 12, 1975, Indonesian military officer, Gen. Yoga Soegama, reportedly handed four boxes containing the remains of the Balibo victims to the Australian Ambassador to Indonesia at that time, Richard Woolcott.
A year later in 1976, Jose Martins, an activist of Apodeti, a political party in East Timor supporting Indonesian invasion, who fled to Australia, handed a box of skeletons claimed to be that of the Balibo Five, to the Australian Journalist Association.
Meanwhile, a former officer of red berets, Col. Gatot Purwanto, who was in Balibo at that time, stressed that his troop burned the bodies of the five journalists to “remove any traces.”
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