When was the Indonesian murders ?
New South Wales Deputy State Coroner Dorelle Pinch in her finding found that : ' Brian Raymond Peters , in the company of fellow journalists Gary James Cunningham , Malcolm Harvie Rennie , Gregory John Shackleton and Anthony John Stewart , collectively known as “ the Balibo Five ” , died at Balibo in Timor - Leste on 16 October 1975 from wounds sustained when he was shot and / or stabbed deliberately , and not in the heat of battle , by members of the Indonesian Special Forces , including Christoforus da Silva and " Captain Yunus Yosfiah " on the orders of Captain Yosfiah , to prevent him from revealing that Indonesian Special Forces had participated in the attack on Balibo . '