Farol

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Farol
The integration monument in Jardim 5 de Maio
Farol (East Timor)
Farol
Farol
Farol is north of the Avenida Nicolau Lobato

Farol ( German  lighthouse ), also Bairo Farol ( Portuguese Bairro Farol ) is a district of the East Timorese capital Dili .

geography

Farol is located in the southeast of the Sucos Motael. West of Rua dos Direitos Humanos is the Bebora district , north of Rua de Santo Antônio and Rua Karketu Mota'ain the Palapaso district and south of Avenida Nicolau Lobato , the Bairo Alto district, which has been part of Motael since 2015, and Suco Colmera . In the east Farol extends to the Bay of Dili . The port of Dili is on the other side of the Avenida de Motael . Sometimes the districts of Aitarak and Palapaso are counted as Farol.

history

Port of Dili

The house of the Timorese ruler of Motael, the historical lord of the Dili region, stood near the later port. To the southeast was the seat of government of the Portuguese governor, where Jardim 5 de Maio is now . At the end of the colonial era, Farol was the residential area of ​​the European population of Dilis. For civil servants and employees of the Portuguese colonial administration, a residential area of ​​single and multi-family houses in the typical Portuguese style was created in the Farol district in the 1950s and 1960s, which - like the fair para Funcionários Solteiros - is still preserved today and is recognizable in the cityscape of Dilis is.

During the civil war in East Timor in 1975 , both parties occupied the port. The Portuguese administration left the colonial capital from here towards the offshore island of Atauro . On December 7th of the same year, Indonesian troops landed in Dili. After conquering the city , the Indonesians led Chinese , members of FRETILIN and other prisoners to the port area, shot them and threw the bodies into the sea. The victims included suffragette Rosa Bonaparte , her brother Bernardino Bonaparte Soares , Isabel Lobato (the wife of Prime Minister Nicolau dos Reis Lobato ) and Roger East , the last foreign reporter in Dili. Witnesses speak of dozens of bodies. The total number of those executed in the shipyard is estimated at 150 people.

Sights and facilities

Lieutenant Manuel Jesus Pires Monument

Despite the name, the Dilis lighthouse is not in Farol, but on the north coast of Motael. The port is the country's most important sea port and the landing stage for ferries to Atauro and Oe-Cusse Ambeno . A new port is currently being built further west in the bay of Tibar .

To the east of Farol, on Avenida Mártires da Pátria, there is the Jardim 5 de Maio ( May 5th Garden ) with the integration monument . North of the park is the 1953 building for the Para Funcionários Solteiros trade fair, a former dormitory for single colonial officials, with a hipped roof covered with red tiles . To the east of the Jardim 5 de Maio city ​​park , where Avenida Marginal splits into Avenida de Motael and Avenida Nicolau Lobato, the memorial to Lieutenant Manuel Jesus Pires has been standing since 1972 . The Jardim Motael extends north of the harbor as far as Farol.

The headquarters of USAID , the Direção de Minerais, the Direção Nacional dos Transportes Maritimos, the headquarters of the Comissão Anti-Corrupção (CAC), the headquarters of the HAK Association and the primary school ( Escola Primaria Farol ) are located in Farol the New Zealand , Filipino and the Sovereign Order of Malta embassies .

See also

Web links

Commons : Farol  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ UNMIT: Timor-Leste District Atlas version 02, August 2008 ( Memento from December 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 448 kB)
  2. ↑ Architectural Heritage of Portuguese Origin , map on p. 16 , accessed June 3, 2016.
  3. ↑ Timor-Leste (Mémória) - Chronology ( Memento of February 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
  4. ↑ Dom Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo: Díli - a cidade que haben era , p. 69. Oporto 2014.
  5. ↑ "Part 3: The History of the Conflict" (PDF; 1.4 MB) from the "Chega!" Report of the CAVR (English)
  6. ↑ “Chega!”: “Chapter 7.2 Unlawful Killings and Enforced Disappearances”, Dili wharf on December 8, 1975 , pp. 40-43.
  7. ↑ ABC: Australia received East Timor 'hit list' before Indonesian invasion , November 27, 2015 , accessed December 19, 2016.
  8. ↑ ABC News: East Timor's latest attempt to find the body of its first prime minister Nicolau dos Reis Lobato , February 21, 2018 , accessed February 21, 2018.
  9. ^ Frédéric Durand: Three centuries of violence and struggle in East Timor (1726–2008) , 2011.
  10. ↑ Peter Carey: East Timor under Indonesian Occupation, 1975-99 , pp. 14ff., Accessed on December 6, 2018.
  11. ↑ Timor Tourism: Statue of Integration ( memento of November 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on November 24, 2015.
  12. ↑ Património de Influência Portuguesa: Messe para Funcionários Solteiros , accessed on December 18, 2016.
  13. ↑ List of polling stations for the parliamentary elections in East Timor 2007 (PDF; 118 kB)

Coordinates: 8 ° 33 ′ 12 ″  S , 125 ° 34 ′ 7 ″  E