Antonio Baptista Justo

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António Baptista Justo was a Portuguese officer.

From 1926 to 1929 Justo, as colonel of the infantry, was chief of the general command of the customs.

Between 1930 and 1933 he was governor of Portuguese Timor , succeeding Cesário Augusto de Almeida Viana . His successor on the post of governor was Miguel Xavier dos Mártires Dias as encarregado do governo ("mandated by the government"). Unlike before, those deported to Timor under Justo first came to one of two prison camps on Atauro and in the exclave of Oe-Cusse Ambeno for several weeks before they could start a new life in the colony. While the island location alone prevented an escape on Atauro, the camp in Oe-Cusse Ambeno was surrounded by a moat and barbed wire. A guard with a machine gun sat on a raised stand. The guards consisted of a commander and local staff. The camp itself consisted of two huts covered with palm fronds. The food consisted only of cooked vegetables with corn and, like the clothing and medical care, was inadequate. Many inmates died of malaria . Only when the deportee and former Colonel António Augusto Dias Antunes sent documents about the catastrophic conditions in the camps to the League of Fighters in the Great War ( Portuguese Liga dos Combatentes da Grande Guerra ) and they complained to the Colonial Ministry, did the central government in Lisbon refuse The camps were closed in February 1932.

In 1934 Justo held the rank of brigadier general in the Lisbon garrison .

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  1. ↑ Guarda Fiscal: Coronel de Infantaria António Baptista Justo 1926-1929 , accessed October 17, 2015.
  2. ^ Geoffrey C. Gunn: Historical Dictionary of East Timor , Scarecrow Press, 2010, ISBN 0810875187 .
  3. ^ Worldstatesmen: East Timor
  4. ↑ Ana Cristina Pereira: Como a invasão japonesa mudou a vida da família Miranda , January 13, 2013 , accessed October 17, 2015.
  5. ↑ Madalena Salvação Barreto: Deportação, colonialismo e interações culturais em Timor: o caso dos deportados nas décadas de 20 e 30 do século XX , FCSH-UNL, 2014 , accessed on October 17, 2015.
  6. ↑ Photo description on Arquivo Nacional Torre do Tombo: O sr. ministro da Guerra com os oficiais da guarnição militar de Lisboa. [Identificados no álbum: Major João Vasco de Meneses; capitão Inácio José Rodrigues da Costa; capitão Luís António de Santana; tenente José de Almeida e Costa Jardim; capitão Artur Augusto Mascarenhas da Piedade; brigadeiro Manuel Umbelino Correia Guedes; brigadeiro Júlio Augusto Rodrigues de Aguiar Júnior; general Domingos de Oliveira; tenente-coronel Valdez de Passos e Sousa; brigadeiro António Baptista Justo; brigadeiro Joaquim S. Malheiros; brigadeiro José de Oliveira Gomes; coronel Filipe Maria Caiola; major Francisco Avelino de Sousa Amado , October 30, 1934], accessed October 17, 2015.
predecessor Office successor
Cesário Augusto de Almeida Viana Governor of Portuguese Timor
1930–1933 		Miguel Xavier dos Mártires Dias
personal data
SURNAME Justo, António Baptista
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese governor and general
DATE OF BIRTH 19th century or 20th century
DATE OF DEATH 20th century or 21st century