Word has come through that British journalist and filmmaker Max Stahl , above, who captured on film the Indonesian massacre in the Santa Cruz Cemetery , Dili, East Timor, on November 12 , l991 , has died.
Darwin activist Robert Wesley-Smith, deeply involved in the East Timor struggle , has written a moving eulogy graphically describing the massacre and how the film had been hidden , smuggled out .
Stahl and two American journalists , Amy Goodman and Allan Nairn , witnessed the atrocities. Nairn was bashed about the head while trying to protect Goodman.
To mark last year's anniversary of the massacre , Stahl provided a detailed account of the event, which was run in this blog .
When news of the slaughter came through to Darwin in 1991 there were demonstrations. There is a memorial to the massacre in the Darwin Cemetery .
Stahl had received treatment for cancer in Brisbane .
