8 Dec 2009

Doubts cast on Balibo claims

From Checkpoint, 6:27 pm on 8 December 2009

New Zealand journalist Gary Cunningham, and four Australian and British colleagues, were killed in the lead up to Indonesia's invasion of East Timor in 1975. Now a retired Colonel Gatot Purwanto, has given details of the incident to the news magazine Tempo saying the men were executed and their bodies burned.