Jakarta, Indonesia (News Today) - The widow of a slain Australian journalist testified Thursday on behalf of a journalists’ association seeking to overturn a ban on a movie depicting Indonesian military atrocities in East Timor in 1975, saying her husband had tried to surrender before being deliberately shot to death.
Shirley Shackleton told the Jakarta Administrative Court that the film “Balibo” accurately depicts the deaths of her husband, Greg, and four other journalists who were allegedly killed by Indonesian troops to conceal Indonesia’s involvement in East Timor.
“I was not in Balibo at that time, but an Australian coroner’s investigation found that an Indonesian military special team led by Capt. Yunus Yosfiah came to Balibo to kill them,” Shackleton told the court. “And I believe it.”
She spoke on behalf of Indonesia’s Alliance of Independent Journalists, which in March filed an appeal of a government censorship board order in December banning “Balibo” from being screened in the country’s movie theaters.
The movie depicts Indonesian troops murdering five unarmed journalists in the East Timor border town of Balibo to cover up Indonesia’s presence before its 1975 invasion of the former Portuguese colony. The reporters were citizens of Britain, Australia and New Zealand.
Australian police have launched a war crimes investigation into the incident. Indonesia maintains that the five were accidentally killed by crossfire. The movie, directed by Robert Connolly and starring Anthony LaPaglia, was withdrawn from the December Jakarta International Film Festival because of the ban.
Shackleton, who has been seeking information and justice for the killings for more than 30 years, told reporters that she hopes the ban will be lifted and that the truth regarding the incident will be revealed.
Source : kompas
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