The Malaysian Battalion in Cambodia

I was in Cambodia, then known as Kampuchea, for almost 2 years in 1992/1993 with the blue berets. It was really a challenging operations as we were given the instructions to deploy there within 30 days as there was suddenly a breakthrough in the Paris Peace Accords and the UN capitalized on it immediately. Everything had to be brought with us for an extended operations without any external support for the first 60 days of deployment. The force level for the Malaysian Battalion approved by the UN was 850, and the core unit for the operations was the 1st Royal Ranger Battalion based in Johor Bahru, reinforced with a company from the 7th Royal Ranger Battalion. The first flight with the Contigent Commander and the advanced party left from Subang AFB to Battambang using only basic topographical maps but made the flight safely and subsequent flights took off from Senai Airport and completed deployment within a week. Heavy equipment moved by ship from Pasir Gudang to the port of Utapao in Thailand for the overland drive to Aranyaprathet and entered Cambodia through Poipet. Thus, the second phase of the UN sponsored operations was secured by the quick deployment of the armed military component of the UN into Cambodia, thereafter renamed the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC) from the earlier United Nations Advanced Mission in Cambodia (UNAMIC) with MALBATT deployed on the front line provinces of Battambang, Siem Reap, Sisophorn, Pursat, Kamping Poay; covering the entire western hemisphere of the country while the Indonesian Battalion provided security in Phnom Penh. In the meantime, the other battalions gradually deployed from the home countries to bring UNTAC up to strength. There are many memorable incidents throughout the operations and I would not mind relating some of them here if you are interested. Ciao.