indonesians asked about bodies of dead journalists

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With increasing attention focused on crimes against journalists, it is sobering to note that it is more than 30 years since five Australian journalists were killed in East Timor - and their government did all they could to help cover it up.

In a report headlined, "Classified documents were destroyed, intelligence officer tells Balibo inquest" Alicia Hamilton reports that "an Australian intelligence officer was ordered to destroy top secret Indonesian documents that questioned what to do with the bodies of the dead Australian journalists."

Astonishingly, for a donor that preaches transparency and accountability, some of the evidence was heard in secret - still hush hush after all these decades.

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