Aires de Almeida

Aires de Almeida is an East Timorese independence activist and a functionary of the FRETILIN party .

Career

Almeida completed secondary school at Liceu Dr. Francisco Machado in Dili in the 1960s. He then completed his military service, during which he became a trainer and teacher for the Timorese illiterate soldiers. He got on a watch list of the secret police Polícia Internacional e de Defesa do Estado (PIDE) and went to Portugal in the early 1970s , where he rented a house in Lisbon that became a meeting place for left-wing East Timorese students. Because of their visits to Almeida, some of the students were interrogated by the DGS , the successor to the PIDE. After the Carnation Revolution in 1974, the group occupied the East Timorese cultural center and used the Casa dos Timores as a meeting point.

At the end of 1978 Almeida moved to Australia , where he continued to campaign for the independence of East Timor. In Sydney he founded the first Timorese cultural center. Since independence was achieved in 2002, Almeida has been living in East Timor again and promoting alternative technologies such as biogas . He also worked for the State Secretariat for Energy Policy under Avelino Coelho da Silva .

family

Almeida is the brother of Filomena de Almeida , wife of the former Prime Minister of East Timor, Estanislau da Silva . The family is originally from India .

Web links

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b ^c ^d Antero Bendito da Silva, Robert Boughton , Rebecca Spence: FRETILIN Popular Education 1973-1978 and its Relevance to Timor-Leste Today , University of New England, 2012, accessed June 5, 2019.
↑ Anne Maregiano: Timor Lorosae , accessed on 14 June 2017th
↑ TL Studies: TIMOR-LESTE: THE LOCAL, THE REGIONAL AND THE GLOBAL: A TLSA RESEARCH CONFERENCE , 2015 , accessed June 14, 2017.
↑ DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF TIMOR-LESTE, MINISTRY FOR ECONOMY AND DEVELOPMENT, SECRETARY OF STATE FOR ENVIRONMENT: NATIONAL ADAPTATION PROGRAM OF ACTION (NAPA) ON CLIMATE CHANGE , 2010 , accessed June 14, 2017.

personal data
SURNAME	Almeida, Aires
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	East Timorese independence activist
DATE OF BIRTH	20th century

[UoNE-1] A ^b ^c ^d Antero Bendito da Silva, Robert Boughton , Rebecca Spence: FRETILIN Popular Education 1973-1978 and its Relevance to Timor-Leste Today , University of New England, 2012, accessed June 5, 2019.

[2] Anne Maregiano: Timor Lorosae , accessed on 14 June 2017th

[3] TL Studies: TIMOR-LESTE: THE LOCAL, THE REGIONAL AND THE GLOBAL: A TLSA RESEARCH CONFERENCE , 2015 , accessed June 14, 2017.

[4] DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF TIMOR-LESTE, MINISTRY FOR ECONOMY AND DEVELOPMENT, SECRETARY OF STATE FOR ENVIRONMENT: NATIONAL ADAPTATION PROGRAM OF ACTION (NAPA) ON CLIMATE CHANGE , 2010 , accessed June 14, 2017.