Crimes and cover-ups in the 1975 execution of five journalists in Balibo | 60 Minutes Australia

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Rewind to 2009 when Gary Cunningham’s siblings return to the village of Balibo to search for answers surrounding his murder. In 1975, Cunningham, along with four other Australian journalists were executed by Indonesian Special Forces prior to Indonesia’s invasion of East Timor. Successive Australian governments have disregarded the issue in favour of better relations with Indonesia, and the men responsible for the journalists’ deaths have never faced justice.

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