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formercia

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Fri Jul-24-09 06:48 AM
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Indonesia 'tortured' Balibo Five

Source: BBC

East Timor's President Jose Ramos-Horta has said five foreign journalists who died in Indonesia' 1975 invasion were tortured and shot by the military.

He made the allegation at the Melbourne launch of the film Balibo, which depicts their deaths as Indonesia's army crossed into East Timor.

Jakarta has always said that they were killed in crossfire with rebels, which Australian governments have accepted.

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Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8166417.stm

Disturbing.

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Fri Jul-24-09 09:43 AM
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1. More disturbing than that BBC article is willing to say

Edited on Fri Jul-24-09 09:47 AM by pschoeb

Many had their genitals cut off and forced into there mouths to choke them. Not sure how the Indonesian and Australian government explains how that could happen from crossfire.

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