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As the shots rang out across the capital Dili in April and May 2006, what had been hailed as a 'success story' of externally supported nation-building processes lay in ruins. Timor-Leste had, for the previous six years, been held up as the United Nations' most successful mission. A key element of this had been the donor driven disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) and security sector reform (SSR) processes through which ex-combatants had been integrated into the new national security forces.