Dulce Maria da Cruz

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Dulce Maria da Cruz , fighting name Wewe , was an East Timorese independence activist for FRETILIN .

Like her husband Vicente dos Reis (Sa'he) , she was one of the students at the Casa dos Timores in Lisbon , a center of Marxist-Leninist Timorese and, after her return to Portuguese Timor at the end of 1974, a member of the Central Committee of FRETILIN (CCF). Cruz was also a political assistant in the party. As a trained primary school teacher, she worked with the Portuguese colonial government to prepare the education system for an independent East Timor. For this she represented FRETILIN in the Grupo Coordenador para a Reformulação do Ensino em Timor (GCRET, German  coordination group for the reform of teaching in Timor ).

During the civil war against the UDT in August 1975 , Cruz was captured in Bucoli and held by the UDT in the Pousada de Baucau .

During the Indonesian occupation of East Timor (1975-1999) she was killed in the struggle for independence.

In 2006, Cruz was posthumously awarded the Ordem de Dom Boaventura .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b 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. ^ David Hicks: Rhetoric and the Decolonization and Recolonization of East Timor. Routledge, 2015, limited preview in Google Book Search; Cruz is incorrectly referred to here as the brother of Vicente dos Reis.
  3. ^ Ministry of Justice of East Timor: LEI DO PARLAMENTO 3/2006 , accessed on March 21, 2018.
  4. ↑ Jornal da República : Edition of December 20, 2006 , accessed on March 22, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Cruz, Dulce Maria there
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wewe (battle name); Cruz, Dulce (short form)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION East Timorese women's rights activist and independence activist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
DATE OF DEATH between 1975 and 1999