Carlos César Correia Lebre

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Carlos César Correia Lebre ( 1954 - 1979 ), fighting name César Mau Laka , was an East Timorese freedom fighter.

César Mau Laka was one of the East Timorese students from the Casa dos Timores in Lisbon . He was part of the FRETILIN delegation, which in November 1975 sought support for the independence of East Timor in African countries. In Angola , the delegation took part in the independence ceremony. The borders of the Portuguese colony have already been infiltrated by Indonesia . After the return of the delegation from Mozambique , the Central Committee of FRETILIN (CCF), of which César Mau Laka was a member, decided on November 28th to unilaterally declare the independence of Portuguese Timor .

On December 7th, Indonesian troops landed in the capital Dili . East Timor was annexed by Indonesia. César Mau Laka joined the armed resistance. In May 1976 he was political commissioner of FRETILIN in the Fronteira Sul sector (southern border), which roughly corresponds to today's municipality of Cova Lima and the south of the municipality of Bobonaro . Thus, he had both political and military leadership in the region in the southwest of the country. He was eventually killed in the struggle for independence.

In 2006, César Mau Laka, in East Timor, which has been independent since 2002, was awarded the Ordem de Dom Boaventura as “co-founder of the national freedom movement” . His remains have been resting in the Heroes' Cemetery in Metinaro since 2012 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ETAN: Unofficial translation of Xanana's 22 June 2006 Speech , 22 June 2006
  2. ↑ a b Ruth Elizabeth Nuttall: The Origins and Onset of the 2006 Crisis in Timor-Leste , February 2017 , accessed on June 15, 2018.
  3. ↑ a b President of East Timor on Youtube: Presidente Taur Matan Ruak Partisipa Iha serimónia fúnebres ba mártires libertasaun nasionál , December 20, 2012 , (here called Carlos dos Martires de Carvalho ), accessed on August 3, 2019.
  4. ^ David Hicks: Rhetoric and the Decolonization and Recolonization of East Timor. Routledge, 2015, limited preview in Google Book Search.
  5. ↑ a b "Part 3: The History of the Conflict" (PDF; 1.4 MB) from the "Chega!" Report of the CAVR (English)
  6. ↑ Clinton Fernandes: “Populist Catholics”: Fretilin 1975 , p.263 , accessed on May 16, 2016.
  7. ↑ Jornal da República : Series I, No. 22, December 20, 2006 , accessed on May 16, 2016.
  8. ↑ "Part 5: The History of the Conflict" (PDF; 564 kB) from the "Chega!" Report of the CAVR (English)
  9. ↑ FRETILIN ELECTORAL COMMITMENT 2001 , accessed June 15, 2018.
  10. ↑ Jornal da República : Edition of December 20, 2006 , accessed on March 22, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Lebre, Carlos César Correia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES César Mau Laka (battle name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION East Timorese freedom fighter
DATE OF BIRTH 1954
DATE OF DEATH 1979