Back to Timor…

Aaron Horrell (front row, fifth from left) gives his thanks to the research team and Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology 

Twenty-five years after deployment to East Timor, a group of New Zealand peacekeepers are returning to the country now known as Timor-Leste as part of a documentary. The group, which includes veteran Aaron Horrell, travelled to Timor Leste on Friday accompanied by a documentary crew who are gathering material for an upcoming project.

The organiser of the trip, Aaron Horrell,

Horrell said the group included former members of the army, navy, airforce and a police officer, who were all deployed to Timor Leste between 1999 and 2002.

The trip was funded by the funded by the Returned Services Association and Southland Community Trust.