The Research Commons at Waikato contains a long review by me of the
circumstances which surrounded the death in East Timor (Timor Leste) in 1999 of
New Zealand Army Private Leonard Manning (http://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/handle/10289/2136#fulltext). The review was written in 2005, after nearly
six years of unsuccessful efforts on my part to find out what had happened and
what lessons could be learned. My
earlier accounts, which were published in the New Zealand International
Review, laid out the official version of events and raised some questions
of my own about events on the day (24 July). I pursued these over the following
years, culminating in a series of Official Information Requests, which were all
refused and summarily dismissed by the Ombudsman. There the matter has stood for eight years.
