East Timor is the largest and longest overseas deployment of New Zealand troops since Malaya/Borneo. Using personal letters, extracts from diaries, interviews and many photographs, this text aims to explain why the New Zealand defence force personnel were sent to East Timor and what they did when they went there.
From various sources, this text documents post-independence history in two former colonies: one Dutch, the other Portuguese. It examines the Indonesian claim to, and invasion of, East Timor, all in the need of "unification" of East Timorese territory with the island republic of Indonesia. [From : Worldcat]
LTG Boonsrang Niumpradit recounts his experiences as Force Commander of the United Nations Transitional Administrator in East Timor (UNTAET) from 19 July 2000 - 1 September 2001