Beautiful eyes, snuffed out by an Indonesian military bullet. Nothing was done really to bring the shooter to justice.
An eyewitness I interviewed in 1995 described the shooter as having a goatee and wearing a blue scarf, an army provost.
Roger East, murdered but not forgotten.

Roger East was an Australian journalist, murdered 45 years ago today. Trying to report the truth of the Indonesian invasion of East Timor. He took cover in a flat the day of the invasion but was grabbed when he went outside, with his camera and notepad, ready to report. ...

Taken to the small park opposite the Hotel Timor, he was tied to a tree. He wasn’t immediately killed, suggesting some hesitation over killing an Australia journalist. After an hour or so a decision to murder him was made. Were orders forthcoming from General Benny Murdani? ...

Did the General reflect on the words of the Australian ambassador Richard Woolcott from their dinner two nights earlier where they discussed the imminent invasion? Murdani may have developed the confidence there would be no repercussions for killing an Australian journalist. ...

DFAT had already given the Indonesians a list of the Australians remaining in East Timor. This list of people needing safety, ultimately became a ‘death list’. So the Indonesians were looking for Roger East when they invaded, needing to remove this last remaining witness. ...