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	CNN.com - Australia still haunted by Balibo Five murders - May 17, 2002
		SYDNEY, Australia (CNN) -- The deaths of five journalists in Balibo, East Timor, in October 1975 as Indonesia launched its campaign to occupy the former Portuguese colony, marked a sharp rise in Australia's awareness of events in the territories to its north.
		The five Australia-based newsmen died during the invasion of the border town of Balibo by the Indonesian army, but the details of precisely how or why they died are still not publicly known.
		Balibo was then in Portuguese Timor, attacked from nearby Indonesian West Timor as Indonesia began its occupation of the former Portuguese colony.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/asiapcf/southeast/05/17/etimor.balibo (524 words)

	wikien.info: Main_Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Balibo is a town in East Timor situated approximately 10km from the Indonesian border.
		Balibo achieved notoriety as the site of the killing of five Australian-based journalists by Indonesian forces on October 16, 1975 during an incursion by Indonesia into what was then Portuguese Timor.
		The Balibo Declaration, which criticised the declaration of independence and was later used by the Indonesian government as partial justification for its invasion, was said to have been signed here but was actually drafted by Indonesian intelligence and signed in Bali, Indonesia.
	www.alanaditescili.net /index.php?title=Balibo (303 words)

	Report by Inspector General of Intelligence and Security into the Balibo Five (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		According to Mr Tom Sherman in the report of his second evaluation of events at Balibo (January 1999) a young DSD officer at Shoal Bay showed a translation of the intercept to visiting staff of the Royal Commission on Intelligence and Security (RCIS) on 4 March 1977.
		Following the deaths at Balibo, however, a file was created in JIO upon which material relating to the deaths, including intelligence reports, was placed.
		The allegation common to informants from within the intelligence community and the book Death in Balibo, Lies in Canberra was that DSD had intelligence before 16 October that, if passed to the government, could have alerted it to the possibility of harm to the newsmen.
	www.defence.gov.au /minister/HillSpeechtpl.cfm?CurrentId=1567 (3241 words)

	CNN.com - Rising from the ashes: The story of an E Timor town - December 8, 2001
		The soldiers had come as part of the Australian-led international force, INTERFET and were amongst the first foreigners to set foot into the territory, after the violence that followed East Timor's vote for independence from Indonesia on 30 August 1999.
		Balibo, which lies on the border with West Timor, was an easy target.
		In the background, there is the rumble of tanks and as darkness envelops the town, the noise is harsh against the sound of laughing children.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/southeast/12/07/etimor.balibo (995 words)

	Balibo Five - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Balibo Five were a group of Australian television journalists based in the town of Balibo in the then Portuguese Timor (now East Timor), who were killed on October 16th, 1975 by Indonesian troops mounting incursions, prior to the full-scale invasion of the territory on December 7th that year.
		It was not until 1994, that Brian Peters' sister, Maureen Tolfree, became involved with the East Timor issue, having heard of a demonstration in her home town of Bristol against the sale of BAE Hawk fighter jets to Indonesia.
		Sunday report on Balibo memorial Nine Network Australia
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Balibo_Five (321 words)

	Were the Balibo five nearly saved?
		He claimed to have been the commander of a 12-person SAS unit that was on the ground near Balibo four to five days before the announcement that the bodies had been found.
		His group managed to penetrate to the Balibo square and the Chinese house, the story went, but when they got there, the source told me, they found the bodies of the executed journalists laid out in the house.
		The journalists were killed in Balibo at dawn on October 16 as they filmed Indonesian forces attacking with warships, artillery, helicopter gunships and regular infantry troops.
	www.etan.org /et2001c/december/01-8/08were.htm (1905 words)

	Murder in Balibo [E.Timor]: What Our Spies Knew
		In which case, parts of the cover-up conclusions made in Death in Balibo, Lies in Canberra are weakened.
		A surprise in the Balibo intercepts located by Blick is that they put Canberra's knowledge of the newsmen's deaths back by a day from what several former intelligence officials recall.
		It was not until Friday October 17, the day after the Balibo attack, that a stream of intercepts indicated that four or five Australians had been killed and Defence officials went to Parliament House to inform ministers in the Whitlam Government.
	www.etan.org /et2002a/february/10-16/14murdr.htm (2144 words)

	Escaped E.Timor refugee tells of killings in West (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		BALIBO, East Timor, Oct 3 (Reuters) - An escapee from the refugee camps in West Timor said on Sunday that pro-Indonesian militias were hunting down East Timorese men there and killing them.
		In the town of Balibo, near the border with West Timor and a former stronghold of pro-Jakarta militias, troops with the multinational force sealed off a bloodstained house in which they suspected sex crimes had been committed.
		In one house in the centre of Balibo, a militia stronghold before the vote, there are bloodstains on the walls and floor.
	www.humanist.de /osttimor/killings.html (580 words)

	New search for answers on Balibo Five - National - smh.com.au
		In a house in the border village were five television newsmen from Australia who had come to cover what had become a full-blown invasion by Indonesian forces in the wake of the abandonment of the former-Portuguese colony.
		Their 2001 inquiry had gone nowhere after it was referred to UN legal officers with a recommendation that warrants be drawn for war crimes against four people, among them Indonesian military.
		Coman admits the inquest faces a difficult road in getting evidence from retired Indonesian military personnel who were in Balibo on the day of the invasion, including one who rose to the rank of general and went on to be a government minister.
	www.smh.com.au /news/national/new-search-for-answers-on-balibo-five/2005/10/16/1129401145681.html (915 words)

	The journalism and films of John Pilger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The former is Australia's leading intelligence expert and a special professor at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, ANU, Canberra, while the latter is Foreign Editor for the Sydney Morning Herald and one of Australia's leading foreign correspondents.
		In the early daylight hours of 16 October 1975, military forces under the command of Indonesian officers attacked and entered the village of Balibo in East Timor.
		In 1989, she managed to reach Balibo to plant a tree in Greg's memory.
	pilger.carlton.com /timor/balibo (591 words)

	Senator Andrew Bartlett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Balibo is a village in East Timor and the Indonesian forces were invading that country.
		It took a long time, a lot of persistence, a lot of work and a lot of heartache for sufficient information to come out, but it is now clear that the five journalists were deliberately killed.
		Regardless of how naïve the journalists may have been, for Australia to turn a blind eye to the danger they were in and to their killing is a chilling reminder that our Govt (and probably any Govt) will not automatically put the interests of its own citizens, or the defence of life, first.
	andrewbartlettonline.blogspot.com /2004/10/balibo-5-and-siev-x-two-separate.html (1241 words)

	Washingtonpost.com: In East Timor, an Eerie Emptiness
		BALIBO, East Timor, Oct. 4 –– More than two weeks into a military operation aimed at bringing security and much needed relief supplies to tiny, devastated East Timor, aid agency officials and military commanders are stumped by a perplexing question: Where are the people?
		Here in Balibo, once home to 15,000 people, they found exactly one local resident--an elderly woman, believed to be deaf, who was left behind when the rest of the town fled.
		Here in Balibo where nearly 900 Australian troops have taken control of a 58-square-mile area, the commander of the operation, Lt. Col.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/inatl/feed/a18099-1999oct5.htm (900 words)

	Back to Balibo by Jill Jolliffe \| New Zealand Listener (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The pilgrimage of the Cunningham family to the small town of Balibo on East Timor's border with Indonesia was a long and painful one, taking 28 years.
		They were not permitted to travel to a Jakarta funeral organised and attended by a handful of diplomats weeks later, and are uncertain whether the remains buried there are those of their loved ones.
		The Balibo ceremony was made possible by East Timor's liberation from Indonesian rule in 1999, and by the determination of Steve Bracks, Labor Premier of Victoria, to amend the historical injustice suffered by the five families, three of whom live in Melbourne, including the Cunninghams.
	www.listener.co.nz /printable,1024.sm (836 words)

	Secret Timor documents implicate former Whitlam government in Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Its report focussed on the government's detailed prior knowledge of the assault on the border village of Balibo, but the documents point to wider questions about the Labor government's active involvement in the invasion, and the cover-up maintained by both Liberal and Labor governments since.
		The seizure of Balibo was a precursor to the full-scale naval bombardment, aerial bombing and massive troop influx of December 7, 1975.
		They were informed that the troops would wear Portuguese-style uniforms to maintain the fiction that those involved were members of the pro-Indonesian UDT and Apodeti parties, local forces that had opposed the seizure of power by the pro-independence Fretilin party two months earlier.
	www.wsws.org /news/1998/aug1998/tim-a25.shtml (1338 words)

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		In his two reports on the Balibo affair for the Australian Government, in 1996 and 1999, Tom Sherman argued that the evidence for deliberate execution of the journalists by the Indonesian task force was circumstantial and inconclusive.
		He was handed the Balibo intercepts by DSD staff and “collated them with newswire reports of Fretilin’s announcement the previous evening (16 October) in Dili of the large-scale Indonesian attack on the western border, and Fretilin’s loss of contact” with the five Australian journalists.
		When I read Death In Balibo, Lies In Canberra, it was this claim that most intrigued me. I have taken considerable trouble over the past several months to try to check the basis for the claim and to tease out both its implications and its plausibility.
	www.austhink.org /monk/MURDANI.doc (5895 words)

	AM - Memorial opened for Balibo five
		Now, the families of the so-called Balibo five have made an emotional visit for the opening of a unique memorial today at the house where the five died.
		In the village square stands the house where the Balibo five took refuge decades before, in October 1975, as they prepared for an attack by Indonesian soldiers coming across the border.
		MARK BOWLING: The Balibo house has been renovated courtesy of the Victorian Government, which bought the burnt-out building and decided to convert it into a community centre that would be both a memorial and a practical help for the impoverished village people.
	www.abc.net.au /am/content/2003/s979378.htm (486 words)

	PM - Balibo commemoration ceremony
		The house at Balibo where the five sheltered in 1975, before they were killed in the Indonesian invasion, has now been restored as a community centre.
		The 15 Australian relatives of the Balibo five were given VIP treatment in Balibo, which is essentially nothing more than an old Portugese fort and a group of houses, most of them without roofs, because they were ransacked during the militia takeover in 1999.
		MARK BOWLING: Now, you look at the Balibo house and the key feature on one wall is the flag that your father daubed there in paint and wrote the words 'Australia'.
	www.abc.net.au /pm/content/2003/s979895.htm (851 words)

	News1
		When the militia were discovered by the peacekeepers, shots were fired and one suspect was killed while the other escaped.
		The UN troop wounded in the 1 December shooting near Balibo is being treated in the UN military hospital in Dili, where he remains in "stable condition," UNTAET said.
		In other news, an extraordinary meeting of East Timor's Cabinet will be held on 9 December to discuss grievances put forward by its members in regard to their functions.
	www.un.org /peace/etimor/news/N041200.htm (229 words)

	Statement on Second Report On The Deaths Of Australian-Based Journalists In East Timor In 1975 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		While not usually persuaded by journalistic crusades, I was struck by the account presented by the alleged new eye-witness to the deaths of the journalists.
		As the new information related to the deaths of the journalists at Balibo, Mr Sherman did not look again at the death of Roger East - nor was he was offered any new information on the death of Roger East.
		Contrasting with the hearsay accounts of the- deaths in the 1996 report, the bases for these conclusions include the accounts of three individuals who claim to have witnessed at least one of the killings.
	www.dfat.gov.au /media/releases/foreign/1999/fa015_99_statement.html (921 words)

	Go Asia Pacific Breaking News Asia - East Timor holds ceremony for 'Balibo Five' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		A special commemorative ceremony is being held in East Timor to mark the 1975 killings of five Australia-based newsmen at the village of Balibo.
		Fifteen family members from Australia and Britain have arrived in Balibo to attend the ceremony at a house where the five newsmen took final refuge from advancing Indonesian soldiers.
		The government of the Australian state of Victoria has contributed $US35,000 to the refurbishment of what is known as the Balibo Flag House.
	www.goasiapacific.com /news/GoAsiaPacificBNA_979229.htm (241 words)

	Pacific Media Watch
		BALIBO, East Timor (The Age/Pacific Media Watch): The Victorian State Government will establish a medical clinic in the East Timor house used by five Australian-based journalists whom Indonesian invaders killed.
		The villagers of Balibo, where the journalists were killed in 1975, are enthusiastic about a State Government plan to build a memorial clinic there.
		Balibo's population of 3500 is strongly conscious of the history of the houses, and the foreign interest in the town.
	www.asiapac.org.fj /cafepacific/resources/aspac/et3811.html (678 words)

	Death in Balibo: time for the truth
		In fact, one witness's observations indicate that the main purpose of the attack on Balibo was specifically the elimination of the journalists.
		Its main conclusions concerning Balibo were: “It is more likely than not that the Balibo Five were killed in the heat of battle while fighting was continuing to occur”.
		The report also did not consider aspects of the Balibo deaths that were potentially of great significance to the Australian public because they were not within its mandate.
	www.greenleft.org.au /back/1998/339/339p32.htm (1845 words)

	Australian government seeks new cover-up on Timor deaths (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		One, an East Timorese member of the Indonesian force attacking Balibo, said the journalists were shot inside a house shortly after the Indonesian forces had taken the town.
		Sherman's terms of reference were restricted to the actual incidents in Balibo, barring him from examining the events leading up to the deaths, including the Australian government's prior knowledge of the attack on Balibo, or the subsequent coverup undertaken by the Indonesian and Australian governments.
		In an editorial called "The ghosts of Balibo," the Sydney Morning Herald called for an inquiry to be established with the cooperation of the Habibie government.
	www.wsws.org /news/1998/oct1998/timo-o27.shtml (2380 words)

	Balibo Five: the cover-up continues
		Joliffe argues that the story of the Balibo Five is pivotal in the history of East Timor.
		The film would have provided indisputable evidence of an Indonesian invasion, disproving claims by the Indonesian government that the troubles at the border were the extension of a civil war between UDT and Fretilin.
		Although she was unable to obtain conclusive evidence, Joliffe states that the story, if true, points to the willingness of the Whitlam government to allow the Indonesian invasion “to go ahead without the embarrassment of media eyewitness and inconvenient Australians”.
	www.greenleft.org.au /back/2001/474/474p29.htm (672 words)

	World Association for Christian Communication
		Incidentally, the British and New Zealand Governments also had an interest in the Balibo deaths since two of the journalists were British and one was a New Zealander.
		The television companies had not advised the Australian Government of the travel plans for their journalists (who were not, in any case, in radio contact with the outside world).
		Fourth, there is the difference between the way that Balibo television crews had no way of transmitting their story direct into the networks and today’s instant reporting.
	www.wacc.org.uk /wacc/publications/media_development/2003_2/balibo_and_the_murder_of_journalists_the_story_won_t_go_away (2891 words)

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