BALIBO CONSPIRACY FILM

Early day motion 1091, tabled 15 March 2010 by Lord Foster of Bath (Liberal Democrat). Signed by 37 members.

That this House congratulates Human Rights Watch on its decision to showcase an award winning film, The Balibo Conspiracy, in London on 17 March 2010; notes that the film concerns the deaths of five journalists killed at Balibo in East Timor in October 1975, including British citizens Brian Peters and Malcolm Rennie, and of a sixth journalist, Roger East, killed in East Timor in December 1975; and invites the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to encourage the Indonesian government to lift its ban on that film and further to encourage the Indonesian government to co-operate with the investigation by the Australian Federal Police into the deaths of the five journalists killed at Balibo.

Signatures by party: Labour 17, Liberal Democrat 14, Scottish National Party 2, Conservative 1, Independent 1, Plaid Cymru 1, Social Democratic and Labour Party 1.