This girl is one of 15.000 people who are hiding in the mountains surrounding the area of Hera Hera on the outskirts of the capital, Dili. Renewed clashes between the military, police and angry mobs has sparked over 100 000 people to move into refugee camps in the city or flee the capital alltogether.

Gangs alligned with the west side of the Island torch houses that belong to the 'Easterners' creating mass fear among the population in the capital, which lead to over 100 000 people fleeing to refugee camps or leaving the capital alltogether.

A fraction of renegade soldiers at their stronghold in the mountains of Maubisse, three hours outside of the capital. They had left their post because of ethic disrimination and then fired on East Timorese police officers in late May. Here; a month later, they hand over their weapons as a sign of pacification.

The father of Santiago do Rega Goncelves touches his son for the last time in the morgue of the National hospital in Dili. He was one of many police officers who suffered because of the recent clashes between the military and police.

An empty stretcher sits outside a refugee camp in the capital Dili. Most ofthe refugee camps get attacked with rocks thrown by mobs who are from the West, while most of the refugee's in these camps are from the East of East Timor.

Family members of gunned down Santiago do Rega Goncelves comfort each other at his funeral. He was one of many police officers who suffered because of the recent clashes between the Military and Police.

East alligned protestors ride with motorcycles, bicycles and buses through the streets of Dili the capital of East Timor calling for the Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri to step down in which he eventually does.

Two young boys walk through what used to be one of Dili's main markets, now all that is left is debris. East Timor, situated 640km of the northern Australian Coast, turned chaotic in March when soldiers went on strike complaining of ethnic discrimination within the ranks. In the power vacuum, ethnic gangs took over the street in violence that mirrored the mayhem of 1999, when the United Nations supervised an independence referendum that ended 24 years of oppressive Indonesian occupation.