Balibu

The film tells the story of the shooting of five Australian journalists during the Indonesian invasion of East Timor in 1975. The film is actually told through the eyes of a sixth Australian, Roger East, who survived the disaster. Behind the scenes The "Barib Five" incident still casts a shadow between Australia and Indonesia. Thirty-four years ago, five Australian television reporters were killed while trying to film Indonesia's invasion of the then Portuguese colony of East Timor, but the matter has not been properly resolved by the authorities. The film "Balibu" released in 2009 attracted Australia's renewed attention to this matter. The five journalists died in the Indonesian border town of Balibu in October 1975, and their bodies were buried soon after. Indonesia has always claimed that the five people were killed in a crossfire between Indonesian soldiers and independence fighters. Although this explanation has been strongly dissatisfied by the family of the deceased, Australia has never questioned this statement out of consideration for maintaining relations between the two countries. Australia's silence on the matter was broken only two years ago. A coroner in New South Wales has found five journalists were killed by Indonesian special-forces soldiers under orders from Captain Yunus Yosfiah, their commander, to stop them disclosing Indonesia's use of Pakistan...