Fernando Teles do Nascimento

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Fernando Teles da Costa do Nascimento , fighting name Txai (Tchai) and Bazuca (born August 22, 1953 in the Aldeia Maluro , Lore , Portuguese Timor ; † March 3, 1980 in Atelari , Laga , East Timor ), was an East Timorese freedom fighter and politician . He was a member of the central committee of the left-wing FRETILIN (CCF) and held the rank of political adjutant (ajunjto) .

Career

Txai comes from a humble background in the far east of what was then the colony of Portuguese Timor. He attended school in his home village, then the secondary schools of the Salesians up to the Colégio in Fuiloro , which he graduated in 1966. Then Txai received a scholarship from the Portuguese government to study from 1971 to 1972. He then finished his studies at the Escola Prática de Agrikultura D. Dinis in Lisbon . Here Txai joined the FRETILIN action committee in the Casa dos Timores in 1974 , which also included Vicente dos Reis and Rosa Bonaparte . Their political orientation was far more radical than the FRETILIN founders in the colony. In 1975 Txai returned to Portuguese Timor.

Txai became part of the Forças Armadas de Libertação Nacional de Timor-Leste (FALINTIL) in the Leste resistance sector, where guerrilla tactics were used to repel the Indonesian invaders. In November 1978 Txai was a fighter in the defensive battle on Mount Matebian , where one of the last bases of the East Timorese resistance was. On November 24th, the Indonesians overran the defensive positions. The last defenders surrendered on November 25th. Txai was able to escape, but then died in 1980 in a battle in Atelari , where attempts were made to rebuild the resistance.

Others

Txai was married to Cornelia Ladeira Ximenes. His parents were Faustino Teles and Caça Ran Tei. Fernando was the eldest of three sons and three daughters of the couple. Only the daughter Luiza Ximenes, the wife of the present-day East Timorese general Cornélio Ximenes , survived the war of independence . Fernando's brother Bento Nikki Teles, commander of the Laur sub-region, died with his son near Lospalos in 1983 , brother Faustino died on August 14, 1985.

In 2006 Txai was posthumously awarded the Ordem de Dom Boaventura and in 2018 the Ordem de Timor-Leste (Collar).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Clinton Fernandes: “Populist Catholics”: Fretilin 1975 , p.263 , accessed on May 16, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b c Jornal da República : Series I, No. 22, December 20, 2006 , accessed on May 16, 2016.
  3. ^ A b c Antero Benedito da Silva: Popular Socialist Democracy of the RDTL 1 1975-1978 , May 15, 2012 , accessed April 15, 2019.
  4. ↑ "Chapter 7.3 Forced Displacement and Famine" (PDF; 1.3 MB) from the "Chega!" Report of the CAVR (English)
  5. ↑ Diário de Notícias: Presidente timorense condecora 46 veteranos da luta contra a ocupação indonésia , November 26, 2018 , accessed on April 15, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Teles do Nascimento, Fernando
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Txai (battle name); Bazuca (battle name); Teles, Fernando (short form); Teles da Costa do Nascimento, Fernando (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION East Timorese politician and freedom fighter
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Maluro , Lore , Portuguese Timor
DATE OF DEATH March 3, 1980
Place of death Atelari , Laga , East Timor