Domingos da Costa Ribeiro

Domingos da Costa Ribeiro († April 18, 1979 in Dili , East Timor ) was an East Timorese politician and freedom fighter.

Career

Due to Indonesian influence , a civil war broke out in August 1975 between FRETILIN on the one hand and UDT and APODETI on the other . The colonial government hastily left the capital Dili and stayed on the offshore island of Atauro . After FRETILIN prevailed against the UDT at the end of the month and the Portuguese governor refused to return to Dili, FRETILIN set up its own structures. José Gonçalves took over the leadership of the Commission for Economic Management and Supervision from October 11th, together with Sera Key and Domingos da Costa Ribeiro.

As part of the management level of FRETILIN , Ribeiro was appointed Deputy Minister for Communications and Transport on November 30, 1975, after the left-wing party had unilaterally proclaimed East Timor's independence from Portugal two days earlier . But on December 7th, Indonesia began an open invasion and landed with troops in the capital Dili , so that the FRETILIN government had to withdraw.

Ribeiro took part in the armed resistance as deputy chief of staff of FALINTIL , the FRETILIN party army. In mid-1977 he was promoted to Chief of Staff at the meeting of the Central Committee of FRETILIN (CCF) in Aicurus . He replaced José da Silva , who had fallen out of favor in the second half of 1976 due to disagreements about the restructuring of FALINTIL. Since Silva was unmoved by the attempts of the political officers to restore their authority, there were quarrels, exchanges of fire, arrest and finally his execution.

Ribeiro was captured by the Indonesians in 1977. He was sent to the Comarca prison in Dili. On the night of April 18, 1979, he and ten other prisoners were taken to Areia Branca beach and executed by members of the 745 Battalion . This unit of the Indonesian army consisted of East Timorese under the command of Indonesian officers.

family

Ribeiro was married to Bemvinda Chaves .

See also

• History of East Timor

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rodney Stafford Nixon: Integrating Indigenous Approaches into a 'New Subsistence State': The Case of Justice and Conflict Resolution in East Timor , A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Bachelor of Social Science, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Master of Arts, University of Melbourne, February 2008 , accessed May 13, 2020.
2. ↑ James J. Fox: FRETILIN (Frente Revolucionária do Timor-Leste Independente). In: Southeast Asia. A Historical Encyclopedia, from Angkor Wat to East Timor. Abc-Clio, 2005, ISBN 1-57607-770-5 , pp. 522-523.
3. ↑ "Part 5: The History of the Conflict" (PDF; 564 kB) from the "Chega!" Report of the CAVR (English)
4. ↑ Awet Tewelde Weldemichael: Third World Colonialism and Strategies of Liberation: Eritrea and East Timor Compared , 2013
5. ↑ "Chapter 7.2 Unlawful Killings and Enforced Disappearances" (PDF; 2.5 MB) from the "Chega!" Report of the CAVR (English)
6. ↑ Statement of Amnesty International's Concerns in East Timor , August 1983 ( Memento of the original from May 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , from a letter from the Prime Minister of Vanuatu to the United Nations Security Council, November 30, 1983, Document S / 16215, December 14, 1983, retrieved May 11, 2016. 
7. ^ Douglas Kammen: Three Centuries of Conflict in East Timor , 2015