Francisco Borja da Costa

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Francisco Borja da Costa (born October 14, 1946 in Fatu-Belak , Fatuberlio , Portuguese Timor ; † December 7, 1975 in Dili , East Timor ) was an East Timorese journalist , freedom fighter and poet and wrote the national anthem of the country Pátria as well the party anthem of FRETILIN " Foho Ramelau ".

Career

Francisco was born to Alcina da Costa and António da Costa , the Liurai of Fatuberlio. He went to school in Soibada up to fourth grade , then moved to Dili , where he worked as a civil servant from 1967 after graduating from high school. From 1968 to 1971 Costa did his military service and then returned to the public service. In 1973 he was in Lisbon for a while and became part of the East Timorese students from the Casa dos Timores . After his return to Dili, Costa actively participated in the Timorese national movement. On April 25, 1974 he was one of the co-founders of the Associação Social Democrática Timorense (ASDT) party, which was renamed FRETILIN shortly afterwards . Costa became a member of the Central Committee. Costa became known for his poetry and speeches in the local language Tetum . He worked as a journalist for A Voz de Timor ( The Voice of Timor ), the first newspaper in East Timor, and also wrote for Seara , the magazine of the Diocese of Dili .

Costa died outside his home in Dili's Bairo dos Grilos district , on the first day of the Indonesian invasion that followed East Timor's declaration of independence. His name was on a death list of the Indonesian military . Costa's body was buried with other FRETILIN members on Lecidere Beach in Dili, where it was later found.

In 1986 the Borja da Costa Austronesian Fondation (FABC) was founded in Lisbon in honor of Costa and is dedicated to the cultural heritage of East Timor, especially the Tetum, the history of colonization, religion and the sociology of Timorese society.

Others

The Australian band Midnight Oil released a cover of Costa's battle song Kolele Mai in 1993 to show their solidarity with the East Timorese liberation struggle.

The Jardim Borja da Costa , near the poet's place of death, is named after him.

The East Timorese government declared October 14th, Costa's birthday, to be "National Day of Timorese Culture".

His brother Luís Borja da Costa created the first Tetum dictionary and the first Tetum Portuguese phrasebook . Francisco's wife Maria Genoveva da Costa Martins was a member of East Timor's first national parliament .

literature

  • Francisco Borja da Costa, Jill Jolliffe (Eds.): Revolutionary Poems in the Struggle Against Colonialism - Timorese Nationalist Verse , translated by James J. Fox, MaryIreland and Elizabeth Traube, Wild & Woolley, Sydney.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jornal da República : Resolução do Governo No. 30/2014 de 29 de Outubro, Dia Nacional da Cultura ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on July 12, 2015.
  2. ^ David Hicks: Rhetoric and the Decolonization and Recolonization of East Timor. Routledge, 2015, limited preview in Google Book Search.
  3. ↑ Clinton Fernandes: “Populist Catholics”: Fretilin 1975 , p.263 , accessed on May 16, 2016.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ↑ a b National Day of Timorese Culture , accessed October 29, 2014.
  6. ↑ Monika Schlicher, Maria Tschanz: Die Kraft der Musik: Resistance and Poetry , in the magazine Südostasien, December 8, 2019 , accessed on December 11, 2019.
  7. ↑ a b Jornal de Notícias: Timor-Leste: Viúva do poeta Borja da Costa recorda a clandestinidade ea tortura , May 17, 2008 , accessed on July 16, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Costa, Francisco Borja there
BRIEF DESCRIPTION East Timorese journalist, freedom fighter and poet
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Fatu-Belak, Fatuberlio
DATE OF DEATH 7th December 1975
Place of death Dili