This paper examines the internal dynamics of these groups' interactions and how these groups prioritised often conflicting political, ethnic and social identities at different times during this two-year period. However, the manner in which all these groups emerged and interacted at different stages of the conflict did not always conform to static political and ethnic allegiances. A number of recent analyses have alluded to the political and ethnic nature of both the conflict and these groups. These tensions were embodied by a wide range of warring social groups such as gangs, veterans groups and martial arts groups. The 2006–2007 communal conflict in East Timor was starkly revealing of the fragility of national identity and also of the existence of deep-seated social tensions.
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