CINEMA: Award-winning film about slain journalists – Balibo (rated M)*

Balibo is a dramatisation of the deaths of six journalists in East Timor in 1975. Five of the six died at Balibo, a small village about 8 km from the Indonesian border, during an Indonesian incursion into East Timor in mid-October 1975. They are known as the “Balibo Five” (see also the editorial column in this issue of News Weekly).Oscar Isaac as José Ramos Horta (left),with Anthony LaPaglia as Roger East.The other journalist, Roger East (played by Anthony LaPaglia), who is the hero of th…

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