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Subject: SBS awarded East Timor's highest honour
see video here: sbs.com.au/news/article/1059777/SBS-awarded-East-Timor%27s-highest-honour
SBS awarded East Timor's highest honour
27 July 2009 | 10:42:24 AM | Source: SBS
SBS has become the first institution to receive East Timor's highest
honour, the Medalha de Merito de Timor-Leste, or the Medal of Merit of
East Timor.
SBS has become the first institution to receive East Timor's highest
honour, the Medalha de Merito de Timor-Leste, or the Medal of Merit of
East Timor.
East Timorese president Jose Ramos-Horta personally presented the award
for excellence in journalism to SBS Managing Director Shaun Brown in
Sydney
"For 20 years or more, I have always had fond memories and respect
for this institution," Dr Ramos-Horta said.
"When most ignored (the problems in East Timor), SBS provided us
with the coverage, the hope ... that somehow we still exist, and you have
done this with outstanding professionalism and quality."
Dr Ramos Horta has been in Australia for the launch of the film
<http://www.sbs.com.au/films/movie/3417/Balibo>Balibo , based on the
true story of the Balibo Five, a group of Australian-based journalists
killed in East Timor in 1975.
Along with the medal came a citation, honouring SBS for being a voice
of democracy, freedom, justice and truth for the past 30 years.
The citation says SBS has drawn attention to the forgotten places in
the world and to the overlooked victims of war.
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