Five journalists who worked for Australian media networks were killed on October 16, 1975, while reporting from Balibo in East Timor.

Known as the Balibo Five, reporter Greg Shackleton, camera operator Gary Cunningham and sound recordist Tony Stewart of the Seven Network, along with reporter Malcolm Rennie and camera operator Brian Peters from the Nine Network, were killed as they witnesses an Indonesian incursion in the town of Balibo.

A sixth, Roger East, a reporter working for Australian Associated Press and Reuters, was executed in Dili on December 8, 1975.

No one has been brought to justice for their murder.

They were in East Timor to cover the tumultuous move to self-rule when former Portugal released its colonies, sparking clashes between pro-independence fighters and militia

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