Balibo
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| Country | File:Flag of East Timor.svg Timor-Leste |
| Admin. division | Bobonaro |
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Balibo is a town in Timor-Leste situated approximately 10 kilometres (6.2 miles) from the Indonesian border. It is located in the sub-district of Balibo, Bobonaro District.
It was estimated by Human Rights Watch that 70 percent of the town was destroyed during the militia violence that preceded the vote on East Timorese independence.[citation needed]
Balibo achieved notoriety as the site of the killing of five Australian-based journalists, now known as the Balibo Five, by Indonesian forces in the 1970s. Australian reporters from Channels 7, 9 and ABC were covering an incursion by Indonesia into what was then Portuguese Timor. The reporters from Channels 7 and 9 were killed on 16 October 1975 by Indonesian Special Forces, to prevent information about the invasion from being released.[2] In December 1975, another Australian reporter, Roger East, who was investigating the deaths of the other five, was reportedly seized by Indonesian soldiers, and then shot by a firing squad.[2]
The town is home to a 400-year-old fort, which was the scene of several battles during the Indonesian invasion in 1975. The Balibo Five were also filming from the fort when Indonesian forces landed in Balibo on the day they died. The fort has been converted into a hotel as of 2016 by the Balibo House Trust, with support from the Rotary Club of Port Melbourne.
The Balibo Declaration, which criticised the declaration of independence, and was later used by the Indonesian government as partial justification for its invasion, was said to have been signed here, but was actually drafted by Indonesian intelligence and signed in Bali, Indonesia.[3]
During the International Force East Timor (INTERFET) mission after the Indonesian withdrawal, the fort was used as a base for approximately one thousand United Nations (UN) troops, as part of Operation Lavarack. Kylie Minogue performed an unplugged concert in Balibo to entertain UN troops in 1999, as part of the Tour of Duty series of concerts.
In 2003, the government of Victoria, Australia purchased the house where the five journalists had stayed, as it had fallen into disrepair, and renovated it to serve as a creche, library, and vocational training centre. International aid organisations have also been involved in other reconstruction work in the town, such as the rebuilding of a dormitory for schoolchildren from remote communities that had been razed during the militia attacks.
See also
- List of cities in East Timor
- 1999 East Timorese crisis
- Indonesian occupation of East Timor
- Australia and the Indonesian occupation of East Timor
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Sensus Fo Fila Fali - Balibo Vila, Municipiu Bobonaro" (PDF). Statistics.gov.tl (in português). Dili, Timor-Leste: Ministériu Finansas. p. 6. Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 July 2017.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Tapsell, Ross; Eidenfalk, Joakim (18 December 2013). "Australian Reporting from East Timor 1975-1999: Journalists as Agents of Change". Australian Journal of Politics and History. 59 (4): 576–592. doi:10.1111/ajph.12034.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Matsuno, Akihisha (1998). "The Balibo Declaration: Between Fact and Fiction".
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Further reading
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The Balibo Declaration - Proclamation". TheJakartaPost.com. Balibo: The Jakarta Post. 27 October 2005 [Original date 30 November 1975]. Archived from the original on 27 October 2005.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."2015 | Statistics Timor-Leste". Statistics.gov.tl. Ministry of Finance Timor-Leste. 2014. Archived from the original on 23 September 2019.
External links
- Page Template:Sister-inline/styles.css has no content.Script error: No such module "Sister project logo". Media related to Script error: No such module "Commons link". at Wikimedia Commons
- Timor-Leste District Atlas - Bobonaro District - Version 02, August 2008 — from the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, United Nations, via Archive.org
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