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Eventbrite - ANU Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs presents ‘Saving British face’: Operation Semut and the Borneo Campaign, 1945 - Monday, 23 May 2022 at Hedley Bull Building - Lecture Theatre 1, Acton, ACT. Find event and ticket information. ....
Event description Christine Helliwell will be In Conversation with Garth Pratten on her new book Semut - set in WWII Borneo. About this event A remarkable new book about Operation Semut, an Australian secret military operation launched by the organisation popularly known as Z Special Unit in the final months of WWII. March 1945. A handful of young Allied operatives are parachuted into the remote jungled heart of the Japanese-occupied island of Borneo, east of Singapore, there to recruit the island’s indigenous Dayak peoples to fight the Japanese. Yet most have barely encountered Asian or indigenous people before, speak next to no Borneo languages, and know little about Dayaks, other than that they have been – and may still be – headhunters. They fear that on arrival the Dayaks will kill them or hand them over to the Japanese. For their part, some Dayaks have never before seen a white face. ....