BALIBO CASE
Five Bodies, Different Stories
In Tanah Kusir there is a grave with the bodies of five Australian reporters who were victims in the Balibo incident. There has been no spiritual satisfaction.
July 21, 2010
I DON’T believe it, and I never said that I believe it,” said Shirley Shackleton over the telephone. She does not believe that the grave which she visited two weeks ago at the Tanah Kusir Cemetary in Jakarta was the burial place of her husband, Gregory John Shackleton.
For this reason, when offered flowers to put on the grave, she turned them down. “I couldn’t put flowers on that grave,” said the 78-year-old woman, when contacted last
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