Yunus Yosfiah, former Indonesian government minister and commander of Kopassus, the elite government sanctioned hit squad functioning as part of the Indonesian military, has been formally identified by an eyewitness as the person who initiated the cold-blooded murder of five Australian journalists in East Timor in 1975. Not mentioned in recent reports is the exact order Yosfiah issued to his troops. Indonesian troops were extremely reluctant to fire on five unarmed Australian non-combatants, who had openly surrendered. [Then] Captain Yunus Yosfiah, issued the murderous order, “don’t think, just shoot”, before he commenced firing on the unarmed Australian journalists!
Yunus Yosfiah -- Murderer of unarmed Oz civilians!
Successive Australian Labor and Liberal governments since 1975, have all been in possession of accurate information in relation to the murders of the 'Balibo five'. Information was obtained directly from eyewitness accounts and ADF communications (signals corp) who were monitoring events as they occurred.
For those who imagined that Australian government cowardice and the appalling habit of abandoning citizens is peculiar to John Howard and his lackey government think and research again. Gareth Evans, former Labor government minister, is a wealth of information regarding sordid deals involving the oil rich Timor Straits – disregarding the crimes of the politically well-connected, Yunus Yosfiah, was implicit to the arrangements made at that time.
Australia is the laughing stock of the region, for obvious (cowardly) reasons. It is time Australia abandoned its cringe mentality instead of its citizens! Until we assert our sovereign right and cease kow-towing to other nations (America/Indonesia) we will continue to be regarded as a piece of convenient real estate or a soft target by various groups that wish to gain notoriety. The enemy is FEAR not neighbouring nations or ‘terrorist’ bogey men.
We would issue the following warning to the powers:
You are dealing with a well-coordinated and highly skilled group of civilians and ex-military personnel. We are aware that Australia is perfectly able to defend itself in the region – need we remind you that skill and technology, not population numbers are the critical factors. Failure to repatriate Hicks and bring the Indonesian murderer to justice may result in those responsible accepting full responsibility for their inaction!
We are also aware of other sordid activities of previous governments; Paul Keating’s little enterprise of a money laundering Casino on Christmas Island is a perfect example. The Casino gained notoriety for its high rolling, socially prominent, Indonesian clientele bearing suitcases of cash from Indonesia – how many hundreds of millions Paul? If Geoff Clark can ‘go down’ thirty-five years after an ‘event’ then no one is safe from the ‘Law’, are they, Richo?
It is clear the two major Australian political parties are unable to lead Australia into the future as an Independent Republic. We operate on a new paradigm and morality, one that has no regard for present and past corrupt, cowardly, lackey governments, ministers, bureaucrats and corporate directors (of the Macquarie Group genus in particular).
Gentlemen, your brazen actions would indicate that you may be labouring under the misapprehension that you are invulnerable or immortal. Let me assure you how accessible and perfectly vulnerable you all are! A nation is not a convenient piece of real estate; it is the land and its people, some of whom have had enough of exploiters and the cowardly, lackey cringe!
With special reference to the ‘aluminium tubing’ Prime Minister and his front bench – did you really think you would get away with it? Please inform your boss, Dick Cheney, that Australia is a wonderful place for a heart attack holiday.
[You have been advised, you miserable, murdering, cowardly, scum!]
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by Hamish McDonald via rialator 2007-02-21 17:55:06
A former senior Federal Government official with the highest possible intelligence clearances today insisted he had seen an intercepted Indonesian Army signal indicating that five Australian journalists at Balibo had been deliberately targeted and killed.
George Brownbill told the NSW Coroners Court that he had seen the signal while visiting the highly secret Defence Signals Directorate base at Shoal Bay near Darwin in March 1977.
Mr Brownbill had been visiting the base as secretary to the Hope Royal Commission into the intelligence services.
A young man had shown him a translated Indonesian Army message stating that "as directed or in accordance with your instructions the five journalists have been located and shot".
Under questioning from counsel assisting the coroner Mark Tedeschi, QC, he insisted that his memory of the message was clear.
On being told that this message had not been produced by the Defence Department to either the 1999 inquiry into the Balibo killings by former National Crime Commission chairman Tom Sherman or the current inquest, Mr Brownbill said there were several possibilities about what had happened to it, including that it had been destroyed either by accident or improperly.
But he said there was another possibility: that it still existed but had been assessed by the authorities as "continuing to be deniable" and that it was not produced in the public interest for national security reasons.
He said that, on the basis of his experience with the Hope Royal Commission, the message could have been placed in a part of the records "where its existence became deniable".
Mr Tedeschi asked if the knowledge of this message had weighed on his mind as he became aware of the efforts of bereaved families to find out what had happened to the five Channel Nine and Channel Seven newsmen.
"From time to time I was distressed by their distress, knowing that whatever was known to the Australian Government but not known to them might have been of assistance to them," he said.
"But knowing also that it was not my place to blow any whistle and, indeed, it was not something I could lawfully do."
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