The AFL-like mark that saved a baby and the young woman who brought AFP officers to tears

This is part three of a four-part series on the United Nations Mission East Timor (UNAMET) 25-year anniversary.

Canberran David Savage AM and Phil Hutson, Australian Federal Police with UNAMET sat down with the ABC’s Caroline O’Brien to share their stories of election day, the violence that followed, a tea towel scandal that went all the way to the United Nations Security Council, eating a slow cooked casserole under fire, and fighting to keep the Timorese people seeking protection in the UN Compound safe.

They returned to Timor 25 years later for the anniversary of UNAMET, where the story of a young woman in the compound still brings them to tears.