Max Christopher Wenner, known as Christopher Wenner and later as Max Stahl, was a British journalist and television presenter. He was best known for filming an East Timorese demonstration and its aftermath that became known as the Santa Cruz massacre. His coverage of East Timor's struggle for independence is listed in Unesco's Memory of the World register as a "turning point" in the birth of a new nation.
Wenner in 2019
The Santa Cruz massacre was the murder of at least 250 East Timorese pro-independence demonstrators in the Santa Cruz cemetery in the capital, Dili, on 12 November 1991, during the Indonesian occupation of East Timor and is part of the East Timor genocide.
The Santa Cruz massacre took place during a 1991 funeral procession to the grave of SebastiĆ£o Gomes.
A re-enactment of the Santa Cruz massacre, November 1998.