Filthy Indonesian military push, to ban Balibo

Subject: Filthy Indonesian military push, to ban Balibo Fri Sep 11, 2009 3:53 am

THE FOREIGN Minister, Stephen Smith, says the Indonesian Government was surprised to hear that the Australian Federal Police would formally investigate the killings of the Balibo Five.

''There's no point beating about the bush - Indonesia is somewhat surprised by this decision,'' he said.

Mr Smith said the Indonesians were surprised because the events took place nearly 35 years ago. He said the view that former Indonesian soldiers killed the five Australia-based newsmen and that a war crimes investigation should proceed was reached independently by a NSW coroner and now by the AFP.

An AFP spokeswoman said last night the decision to investigate was reached on August 20 by the new commissioner, Tony Negus, who took up his post this week and was then a deputy commissioner. But the decision was criticised yesterday by a Labor MP, Stephen Hutchins, who said the AFP should be concentrating on crime in Australia.

''The resources of the AFP would be best-served by looking after its own people in this country where you can have an outcome, rather than an inquiry in another country,'' said Senator Hutchins, who chairs the Parliament's committee on the Australian Crime Commission. ''We feel sorry for the families who are still grieving after so many decades, but we have crimes in this country which require the constant resources of the law enforcement agencies.''

Indonesia's military yesterday urged the country's censors to ban Balibo, the film which depicts the journalists being murdered during the 1975 invasion of the former Portuguese colony.

The call came as the man at the centre of the AFP war crimes probe into the killings, former special forces captain Yunus Yosfiah, dodged questions about his role in the deaths and declined to say whether he would co-operate with the investigation.

Balibo has been entered into November's Jakarta International Film Festival and will have to go before Indonesia's censors before it is allowed to be shown.

''I think we should reject that,'' said Rear Marshal Sagom Tamboen, the Indonesian military's spokesman, when asked if the film should be shown. ''Anything about Indonesia and Timor Leste should be about something that is based on future co-operation and not about looking back.''

Rear Marshal Tamboen described the AFP investigation as ''Australia's internal affairs'', suggesting the military had no intention of co-operating with it.

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Filthy Indonesian military push, to ban Balibo

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