balibo five east timor sherman inquiry indonesian army

ISBN 0908011687

Size = 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall

This provocative book reveals the previously hidden details of one of the most shameful episodes in Australia's history, providing a firsthand account of the deaths of five young television reporters killed by the Indonesian military in the East Timor border town of Balibo in 1975. The reporters died as they filmed the advance of Indonesian troops into the town.

Cover Up tells their personal stories and of their families' heartbreaking struggle for the truth. It argues that the Australian government was always aware of the circumstances of the killings and that its cover-up was a key factor in Indonesia's decision to invade and occupy East Timor. Part memoir, part history, this searing book is as much an investigation of the Indonesian occupation of East Timor as it is a case study of the Balibo killings.

In Cover Up, the author's quest to identify and indict the Balibo killers is intertwined with East Timor's recent tragic history. In following their trail, Ms Jolliffe uncovers evidence of another massacre in which hundreds of innocent villagers were machine-gunned years later.

Jill Jolliffe was working as a freelance correspondent for Reuters when in 1975 she witnessed the first incursions of Indonesian troops and reported the deaths of her 5 colleagues. She has followed and covered events in East Timor and other hot spots for the Guardian (UK) and the Sunday Times (UK), the Age (Australia), the Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) and the BBC. She lives in Darwin, Australia.

CONTENTS:

Map of Timor in 1975
Author's Note
Key Characters

Prologue
1. The Balibo Five
2. East Timor 1975
3. The Stage is Set
4. Death
5. Information Withheld
6. First Inquiries: a defector emerges
7. An Anonymous Eyewitness
8. Balibo Forgotten
9. The Sherman Inquiry
10. Sherman Scrutinised
11. Making 'Foreign Correspondent'
12. 'Black Ops': a shadow scenario
13. Between Terror and Freedom
14. Freedom's Grim-Dawn
15. Answers At Last
16. More Revelations
17. The CIVPOL Inquiry
18. Chris, the Cowardly Balibo Killer

Epilogue

Appendices
Notes
Glossary
Index

Photographs appear between pages 180 and 181

360 pages with photos. Softcover. Ex-Library.

Weight = 800 g

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