Roger East - Australian Associated Press

Roger East (1924 - 8 December 1975) was an Australian journalist who was executed by the Indonesian military in its invasion of East Timor in 1975.A freelance journalist then working for the Australian Associated Press (AAP), East came to Portuguese Timor in October 1975 following up the story of the Balibo Five who had been killed by the Indonesians in an incursion just weeks before. Previously, he had worked as a publicity officer for the Country Party in Queensland, and had been working in Darwin as a press officer for the Darwin Reconstruction Commission, set up following the devastation of the city by Cyclone Tracy.At this time, East Timor was under de facto rule of the Fretilin administration as the Portuguese governor had retreated to the island of Atauro and was refusing to return to the capital Dili. Fretilin would issue a UDI on 28 November.

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• Assisted by: Cornelia C. Eglantine (Editor), Cornelia Cecilia Eglantine (Editor)
• Publisher: Betascript Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.02.2012
• EAN: 9786137828410
• ISBN: 9786137828410
• No. of pages: 124
• Subject: Guides > Law, job, finance > Letters, rhetoric