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A murdered journalist, after five were murdered 2 months before, attracted little media attention - with the post-coup election on in Australia in 1975 & the US wanting us to ignore the #Timor invasion. We mostly complied - only his family, friends, & colleagues to bat away. ../2 
No #DFAT investigation, no #AFP witness statements, no government interest, but just words. Our government maintained the Indonesians cover story that he’d fled to the hills - despite knowing he was summarily shot in public in front of dozens of living witnesses in December 8.
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I interviewed still distraught eyewitnesses in 1995 for a SMH article. The killers lived prosperous careers, retired to a genteel life in Java, doting on their grandkids, occasionally telling old war stories but only to old war mates. …/3
#BREAKING Indonesia, East Timor flood death toll surges past 150: officials
#UPDATES Indonesia's disaster management agency says it has recorded 130 deaths in a cluster of remote islands near East Timor, where another 27 have been officially listed as dead, with dozens more still missing after a tropical cyclone
Rescuers search for dozens of people still missing after floods and landslides swept away villages in Indonesia and East Timor, killing more than 150 people and leaving thousands more homeless u.afp.com/UMSv
