Author: katherinseppelt
Canada – Ministers of Veterans Affairs and National Defence mark 20th anniversary of the end of Canada’s mission in East Timor
Since the start of Canadian peacekeeping, few of Canada’s international peace missions over the past seven decades have taken members of the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) farther from home than the operation in East Timor from 1999 to 2001. Ottawa, ON – Since the start of Canadian peacekeeping, few of Canada’s international peace missions over the past seven decades have taken members of the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) farther from home than the operation in East Timor from 1999 to 2001. In 1999, when Timor tried to reassert its independence from Indonesia, the country of over one million people was ... Read more