Peacekeepers deployed to East Timor amid gun battles
Peacekeepers from Australia and New Zealand were deployed to East Timor today to help restore calm after gun battles between the tiny nation’s military and disgruntled ex-soldiers killed two people and injured nine.
About 60 police and military forces from New Zealand boarded flights to Dili, hours after East Timor's government requested foreign assistance in quelling an uprising by renegade soldiers, camped out in the hills surrounding the city.
