In 1985 , whilst working as a war correspondent in Beirut , he went missing ; he turned up again , safe and well , after 18 days . In 1991 , he shot footage of a demonstration in Dili , East Timor , preceding a massacre and during the massacre itself . He filmed inside the Santa Cruz cemetery among the dead and the dying , as soldiers advanced in a well-organised operation against a huge crowd of East Timorese engaged in peaceful protest . It was Wenner 's footage that brought the plight of the East Timorese to world attention . In 1992 his work was awarded the Amnesty International UK Media Award for Yorkshire Television 's '' First Tuesday '' episode " Cold Blood – the Massacre of East Timor "
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