On December 8, 1975, less than two months after the murder of the Balibo Five, Roger East was also murdered by the Indonesian military on the Dili wharf. East was aged 53. East had opened a one-man news agency in East Timor, supplying news stories for both ABC Radio in Darwin and the AAP news agency in Sydney. He provided the first accounts of the killing of the five Australian journalists at Balibo. His final story for ABC Radio was heard on December 7. Roger is one of eight Australian journalists murdered while on assignment overseas.