British journalists murdered - Coroner

An Australian coroner called today for a war crimes probe into what she said was the murder of two British journalists and their three colleagues 32 years ago by Indonesian forces invading East Timor.

The finding stokes the long-running controversy surrounding the case by contradicting the Indonesian and Australian governments’ official version of events – that Brian Peters, Malcolm Rennie and the others were killed accidentally in crossfire between Indonesian troops and East Timorese defenders.