Francisco Benevides

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Francisco Tilman de Sá Benevides (* 1950 , † 2010 in Dili , East Timor ), was an independence activist and politician from East Timor.

Career

Benevides was one of the residents of Casa dos Timores , a residential community of East Timorese students in Lisbon who dealt with revolutionary-Marxist and nationalist ideas in the early 1970s and played a major role in the later radicalization of FRETILIN . At the turn of the year 1974/75 he returned, like other members of the group, to Portuguese Timor that was preparing for independence. Of the 18 members of the group who stayed in East Timor after the Indonesian invasion , Benevides is the only one who survived the occupation from 1975 to 1999. As part of the political front, he belonged to the second generation of members of the FRETILIN Central Committee (CCF).

On May 20, 2002, East Timor was given independence. Benevides became Deputy Minister for Coffee and Forestry in the First Government . In the II. Government (2006-2007) he was Vice Minister for Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries and finally in the III. Government (2007) Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries .

In 2006 Benevides was awarded the Ordem de Dom Boaventura . Like other veterans of the struggle for independence, Benevides completed a law degree after the independence of East Timor. He graduated in 2010 at the age of 60. In the same year he died in Dili .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c 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. ↑ a b Jornal da República : Edition of December 20, 2006 , accessed on March 22, 2018.
  3. ↑ a b FRETILIN Media: The Making of Lu Olo , 14. February 2012 , accessed June 6, 2019.
  4. ^ Website of the government of Timor-Leste: I Constitutional Government (English)
  5. ↑ Teresa Cunha: Sete Mulheres de Timor - Feto Timor Nain HituSete Mulheres de Timor - Feto Timor Nain Hitu , 2005 , accessed on June 6, 2019.
  6. ^ Website of the government of Timor-Leste: II Constitutional Government (English)
  7. ↑ Website of the government of Timor-Leste: III Constitutional Government (English)
personal data
SURNAME Benevides, Francisco
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Benevides, Francisco Tilman de Sá (full name); Benevides, Francisco de Sá (short form)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION East Timorese independence activist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1950
DATE OF DEATH 2010
Place of death Dili , East Timor