British push to charge Balibo 5 killers
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The Balibo Five, the journalists who were killed during the Indonesian occupation of East Timor in 1975 are in the news again today. Britain is being urged to order arrest warrants for their killers, members of the Indonesian military who were named last November in an Australian coronial enquiry into the deaths. Four were named but only two survive, Christoforos Da Silva and Captain Yunus Yosfiah Justice John Dowd is President of the International Commission of Jurists. He explained the chances of the two being tried as war criminals after all this time. Widow of Australian journalist Greg Shackleton, Shirley Shackleton, says it’s good news but she’s not getting her hopes up too soon.
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