In East Timor, the United Nations is estimating 100,000 people have now been displaced by recent violence. On Tuesday, East Timor’s President Xanana Gusmao declared a state of emergency, assumed control of the army and police and called on residents to hand over their weapons.

• Xanana Gusmao: “I appeal to the people to surrender voluntarily the weapons, the ammunitions, the grenades, the military equipment and even the machetes, the other, the other instruments to hurt other people to the authorities but essentially to the international forces.”