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WaPo - Residents Flee Violence in East Timor Capital

Hundreds of refugees, terrified by the sudden anarchy in Dili, crowded in front of the gates of the main U.N. compound and outside the beachfront U.S. Embassy. Hundreds more packed onto the grounds of the small international airport…

Hours after the United Nations announced it was also evacuating nonessential personnel from the country, dozens of employees trickled into the U.N. compound carrying suitcases and backpacks. Some were distraught over leaving their Timorese colleagues behind and abruptly suspending services to the country’s impoverished population.

There’s a scene like that in Hotel Rwanda. All the rich UN types leave the natives to their fate. They’d not been able to stop what was happening and when it started happening they ditched the people that depended on them to take care of themselves, if they weren’t macheted by their next door neighbor. So then in the special features you had the actors saying they were so touched by the story that it inspired them to go work for the UN. And the orchestra soars and there’s a slow, steady pan to the UN building across Turtle Bay at the end of The Interpretor.