Albina Marçal Freitas

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Albina Marçal Freitas

Albina Marçal Freitas , fighting name Bia Shana Falu (born February 12, 1958 in Bauro , Portuguese Timor ; † December 29, 2019 in Dili , East Timor ) was a politician from East Timor and a member of the Congresso Nacional da Reconstrução Timorense (CNRT) party.

Career

The school education of Freitas ended with the preparatory cycle of the upper secondary level. It was first at the Colégio Dom Bosco in Fuiloro , then at the Colégio Òscar Ruas of the Canossians in Ossu . Freitas became a teacher in Fuiloro, Luro and Loré . After the Indonesian invasion , she joined the FALINTIL guerrillas , where she served under Lere Anan Timor . She became a member of the Organização Popular da Juventude Timor (OPJT) and the Organização Popular da Mulher Timor (OPMT) as well as the Central Committee of FRETILIN . In the end, Freitas was taken prisoner in Lospalos , Indonesia, where she stayed for four years. Since she was distrusted in the resistance, she was not accepted back into the ranks until 1996.

Freitas later became a director of a non-governmental organization . In 2000 she published a paper on the role of women in the struggle for independence against the Indonesians.

Since 2012, Freitas was a member of the National Parliament of East Timor for the CNRT . Here she was in her first term in the Commission for Public Finance (Commission C). In the parliamentary elections on July 22, 2017 , she was able to return to parliament at number 21 on the CNRT's list. She became Secretary of the Commission on Infrastructure, Transport and Communications (Commission E) and Vice-President of the GMPTL (Group of Parliamentarians of East Timor) . After the dissolution of parliament, Freitas took up position 15 of the Aliança para Mudança e Progresso (AMP), to which the CNRT belonged, in the new elections on May 12, 2018 , and moved back into parliament. She became a member of the Public Finance Commission (C) again.

In October 2019, Freitas was brought to Malaysia for treatment due to health problems . Back in Dili, she was admitted to the Guido Valadares Nacional Hospital on December 25 , where she died on the night of December 29 at 12:15 a.m. local time. She was buried in the Heroes' Cemetery in Metinaro .

Awards

Since 2006, Freitas has been the bearer of the Great Order of Nicolau Lobato , first class.

family

Freitas (left in blue) with Isabel da Costa Ferreira at the inauguration of the memorial to the Tchaivatcha tragedy (2015)

Her husband Miguel Pereira (fighting name Falutxai ), whom she married in 1982 during the fight for freedom against the Indonesians in the bush (with Xanana Gusmão al best man), died in the so-called " Tchaivatcha tragedy " on July 21, 1985. At the erection of the great memorial In 2015, Freitas played a key role. Albina's siblings Benedita (Dircy Betty) and Ernesto Freitas also fell in the armed struggle against the Indonesians. Albina also has another brother and two sisters.

Web links

Commons : Albina Marçal Freitas  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b East Timor’s National Parliament: Albina Marçal Freitas , accessed on July 5, 2019.
  2. ^ A b Philip J. Havik, José Mapril, Clara Saraiva: Death on the Move: Managing Narratives, Silences and Constraints in a Trans-National Perspective. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018, limited preview in Google Book Search.
  3. ↑ a b c Profile on Parliament's website ( Memento of February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (Portuguese)
  4. ↑ National Parliament of East Timor: Comissões Especializadas Permanentes, Competencia e Composição 2017–2022 ( Memento of October 4, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on October 4, 2017.
  5. ↑ UNFPA: 2016 National Conference on Reproductive Health “Investment in women's health is investment for Timor-Leste's future” , September 21, 2016 , accessed December 28, 2019.
  6. ^ Election lists for the 2018 parliamentary elections
  7. ↑ Tempo Timor: Kondisaun Deputada Albina Marçal PN Seidauk Hatene , October 9, 2019 , accessed on December 28, 2019.
  8. ↑ Timor Post: Deputada Albina Marçal Hakotu Iis iha Ospitál Nasionál , December 28, 2019 , accessed on December 28, 2019.
  9. ↑ Prime Minister Osttiors: Post of condolence on Facebook , accessed December 30, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Freitas, Albina Marçal
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bia Shana Falu (battle name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION East Timorese politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Bauro , Portuguese Timor
DATE OF DEATH 29th December 2019
Place of death Dili , East Timor