Aculau

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Aculau
The Suco Aculau is located in the northwest of the Hatulia administrative office.
Data
surface 47.01 km²
population 2,072  (2015)
Chefe de Suco Armando Martins Soares
(election 2009)
Aldeias Population  (2015)
Bermoslau 217
Dirhatilau 490
Noerema 476
Poelete 247
Raimate 403
Sare 239
Sare (East Timor)
Sare
Sare
Coordinates: 8 ° 45 ′  S , 125 ° 12 ′  E

Aculau ( Asulau , Asulau / Sare ) is an East Timorese Suco in the administrative office of Hatulia ( municipality of Ermera ).

geography

Aculau
places position height
Caisoro 8 ° 44 ′  S , 125 ° 16 ′  E 148  m
Ceres 8 ° 45 ′  S , 125 ° 14 ′  E 3  m
Direma 8 ° 44 ′  S , 125 ° 15 ′  E 36  m
Dirhatilau 8 ° 45 ′  S , 125 ° 15 ′  E 22  m
Poelete 8 ° 45 ′  S , 125 ° 14 ′  E 22  m
Sare 8 ° 45 ′  S , 125 ° 12 ′  E 0  m

Before the 2015 regional reform, Aculau had an area of ​​47.72 km². Now there are 47.01 km². The Suco is located in the north-west of the administrative office of Hatulia. To the east are the sucos Urahou , Fatubessi and Ailelo . In the north, Aculau borders on the administrative offices of Liquiçá with the Suco Leotala and Maubara with the Sucos Lissadila and Guiço, which belong to the municipality of Liquiçá . In the south are the administrative offices of Atabae with the Suco Atabae and Cailaco with the Suco Purugua belonging to the municipality of Bobonaro . Along the border with Bobonaro, the Marobo initially flows in a wide river bed with numerous sandbanks until the Bebai coming from Bobonaro meets the Marobo south of the village of Sare and forms the Lóis with it. While the Lóis continues to flow to the west, the northern border river, the Gleno , flows into it . The Gamerama River forms the southern part of the border with Fatubessi and flows into the Eahora , the border river to Ailelo, which ends in the Marobo. The Tutan , which rises in the center of Aculau and flows south, also pours into the Marobo . The Guradi rises in Fatubessi and follows the northern part of the border with Aculau until it flows into the Gleno , where the sucos Aculau and Urahou meet.

To the west of Aculau is the village of Sare , which also has a makeshift helipad and a medical station. In the center are the places Ceres , Poelete and Dirhatilau ( Dirihatilau ) and a little to the north of it the villages Direma and Caisoro . There are no major streets that connect the Suco with the outside world, which is why the ballot boxes for the parliamentary elections in East Timor 2007 had to be brought to the polling station in the Escola Primaria Noerama primary school and picked up again by horses and porters .

In Suco there are the six Aldeias Bermoslau , Dirhatilau , Noerema ( Norama ), Poelete , Raimate and Sare .

Residents

2072 inhabitants (2015) live in Suco, of which 1065 are men and 1007 women. The population density is 44.1 inhabitants / km². There are 346 households in the Suco. Over 51% of the population name Tetum Prasa as their mother tongue. Almost 35% speak Mambai , just under 9% Kemak , 2% Tokodede and minorities Makuva or Tetum Terik .

history

In 1978 Indonesian soldiers from infantry battalions 744 and 745 died in an attack on the village of Aisapu in Aculau, according to statements by the families.

At the end of 1979 there was a transit camp in Poelete in which the Indonesian occupying power interned East Timorese civilians.

Thousands of refugees from the Sucos Vatuboro , Guiço , Lissadila , Vatuvou , Maubaralissa , Vaviquinia and Gugleur (Maubara administrative office) gathered in Sare from February 1999 as a result of the wave of violence in the vicinity of the upcoming independence referendum . An international aid delivery brought 25 tons of food to Sare at the beginning of July. At that time there were 3800 refugees there, 2250 from Guiço alone. In February / March there were still 5000, but some moved on to Atabae and Hatolia Vila . Between February and July alone, 23 women were raped by militiamen and five people were murdered by the pro-Indonesian militias Besi Merah Putih (BMP) and Halilintar , who operated in the region. The victims were murdered while trying to get cassava roots from their home for their families. In February the refugees had received food from the population in Aculau, but in March the supplies were no longer sufficient, so the refugees had to look for food in the forests and tried to create their own gardens. The refugees' huts and gardens were repeatedly burned down by the Besi Merah Putih (BMP) militia, and zinc roofs and livestock were stolen. The refugees did not return to their homeland until the international intervention force (INTERFET) arrived in September . According to the Aculau Chefe de Suco, three to four people died every day in the refugee camp. Malaria, respiratory diseases, diarrhea and dysentery were rampant among the refugees. Although there was a medical station in Suco, the only nurse had fled to Hatolia Vila in March 1998. For the independence referendum on August 30, 1999, a polling station was set up in Sare especially for the refugees because they did not dare to return home. Those who returned to their hometown for the vote left immediately after they had cast their vote for fear of further violence.

politics

In the 2004/2005 elections , Marcelino da Silva was elected Chefe de Suco. In the 2009 elections won Armando Martins Soares .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Direcção-Geral de Estatística : Results of the 2015 census , accessed on November 23, 2016.
  2. ↑ Fallingrain.com: Directory of Cities, Towns, and Regions in East Timor
  3. ↑ Direcção Nacional de Estatística: Population Distribution by Administrative Areas Volume 2 English ( Memento from January 5, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (Census 2010; PDF; 22.6 MB)
  4. ^ Timor-Leste GIS-Portal ( Memento from June 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ List of polling stations for the parliamentary elections in East Timor 2007 (PDF file; 118 kB)
  6. ↑ UNMIT: Timor-Leste District Atlas version 02, August 2008 ( Memento from December 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 584 kB)
  7. ↑ Jornal da Républica with the Diploma Ministerial n. 199/09 ( Memento of February 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (Portuguese; PDF; 323 kB)
  8. ↑ Results of the 2010 census for the Suco Aculau ( tetum ; PDF; 8.5 MB)
  9. ↑ "Chapter 7.2 Unlawful Killings and Enforced Disappearances" (PDF; 2.5 MB) from the "Chega!" Report of the CAVR (English)
  10. ↑ a b "Chapter 7.3 Forced Displacement and Famine" (PDF; 1.3 MB) from the "Chega!" Report of the CAVR (English)
  11. ↑ Secretariado Técnico de Administração Eleitoral STAE: Eleições para Liderança Comunitária 2004/2005 - Resultados ( Memento of August 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  12. ↑ Secretariado Técnico de Administração Eleitoral STAE: Eleições para Liderança Comunitária 2009 - Resultados ( Memento of August 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive )

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