Filthy Indonesia did kill the Balibo 5

Balibo 5 murder admission welcomed
The Newspaper Publishers Association has welcomed an admission that the Indonesian Army deliberately killed five journalists in Balibo. Wellington cameraman Gary Cunningham and four colleagues - Brian Peters, Malcolm Rennie, Greg Shackleton and Anthony Stewart - were executed on October 16, 1975 and their bodies burned. Former Indonesian Army colonel Gatot Purwanto, who took part in the assault on Balibo, admitted in a magazine interview that a decision was made to kill the Australia-based newsmen, contradicting Indonesia's official line that they died in crossfire.

So these filthy Indonesian maggots did kill the Balibo 5 to hide their brutal and corrupt invasion of East Timor. Suharto who has been allowed to buy property in NZ should be put on trial for the abuses he committed in that invasion, and the NZ Governments and Australian Governments who have been silent need to be deeply ashamed because we allowed the Indonesians to invade East Timor, and for that sin we are forever in East Timor’s debt.

Let’s not forget the role of the US who was visiting Indonesia the week before the invasion and who asked Indonesia to commit their brutal invasion once the President had left.

Journalists murdered to prevent evidence of a brutal invasion is a sick crime that needs to be exorcised from our common recent history and prosecuting the Indonesian Army is step one, step two would be a deep soul searching of how we stood by and allowed a war crime to occur without protesting it.

We can talk so tough on Fiji these days but weren’t we quiet pathetic little mice when it came to the murder of East Timor and the death of one of our own trying to tell us about that murder.

Shame on NZ, shame.