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A few months before the invasion of East Timor five journalist, reporter Greg Shackleton and sound recordist Tony Stewart who were both Australian, a New Zealand cameraman Gary Cunningham and two Brits cameraman Brian Peters and reporter Malcolm Rennie were summarily executed by the Indonesian Army. Massacre of APODETI detainees November, 1975
The East Timor genocide refers to the "pacification campaigns" of state terrorism between 1975 and 1999 ... suggesting a death toll of at least 55,000 in the first ...
A few months before the invasion of East Timor five journalist, reporter Greg Shackleton and sound recordist Tony Stewart who were both Australian, a New Zealand cameraman Gary Cunningham and two Brits cameraman Brian Peters and reporter Malcolm Rennie were summarily executed by the Indonesian Army. Matadouro massacre: 7 December 1975 Matadouro ...
Roger East, 53, an Australian AAP-Reuters journalist, travelled to East Timor to investigate the deaths of the five men. East was captured in Dili by the Indonesian military on 7 December 1975, the day of the invasion, and executed by firing squad on the morning of 8 December with his body being disposed of in the ocean. He has been referred to ...
The Kraras massacre was a series of mass killings committed by the Indonesian Army, along with Timorese Hansip members, in August and September 1983 in Kraras, Viqueque Municipality, East Timor. More than 200 civilians, mostly men, died in the killings. The region is now known as the "Valley of Widows". [1] [2] [3] [4]
Alfredo Reinado was a significant figure during the crisis, leading a mutiny in May 2006 during which nearly 600 soldiers deserted and triggered clashes between rival factions of the Timor Leste Defence Force (F-FDTL) and the National Police of East Timor (PNTL). [1] He was subsequently detained on charges of murder and mutiny.
Independence for East Timor, or even limited regional autonomy, was not allowable under Suharto's New Order. Notwithstanding Indonesian public opinion in the 1990s occasionally showing begrudging appreciation of the Timorese position, it was widely feared that an independent East Timor would destabilise Indonesian unity. [24]
The Santa Cruz massacre (also known as the Dili massacre) was the murder of at least 250 East Timorese pro-independence demonstrators in the Santa Cruz cemetery in the capital, Dili, on 12 November 1991, during the Indonesian occupation of East Timor and is part of the East Timor genocide.