Last May, an unarmed United Nations team began arriving in East Timor to organise the August referendum in which the East Timorese people voted to move towards independence from Indonesia. But, by mid-September, most UN personnel had been forced to leave in the face of rising violence instigated by pro-Indonesian militia. Reporter Guy Smith returns to ask why the UN failed to foresee events, and follows UN workers as they revisit the area to find out what happened after they left.