Francisco Horta (activist)

Francisco Horta (born August 26, 1904 in Figueira da Foz , Portugal , † November 15, 1970 in Portuguese Timor ) was a Portuguese marine and activist.

Life

The NRP Afonso de Albuquerque (1935)

In 1936, the Portuguese dictatorship under António de Oliveira Salazar planned to use Portuguese war, transport and supply ships to support the nationalist putschists in the Spanish Civil War . Horta rebelled against this as a non-commissioned officer in the Portuguese Navy . Together with other sailors, he disempowered the officers of the Avisos Afonso de Albuquerque and the destroyer Dao on September 8 and lifted anchor to fight Francisco Franco on the side of the Republic . At the mouth of the Tagus, the mutineers were attacked by Portuguese forces from the land and had to give up. Francisco Horta was exiled to Portuguese Timor.

During World War II, Japanese forces occupied the colony of neutral Portugal. Horta fought in the Battle of Timor together with Australian commandos in guerrilla war against the occupiers. When he and 600 other Portuguese were evacuated to Australia, he and 27 other deportados were interned against the law on Bob's farm . Horta was rehabilitated for fighting the Japanese after the war, but remained in Timor until his death.

family

Francisco's parents were António Luís Horta and Beatriz dos Santos Leite . António was also in political exile in the Azores , later on Cape Verde and in Portuguese Guinea , until he was finally exiled to Portuguese Timor.

Francisco Horta married the Timoresin Natalina Ramos Filipe (from Holarua , 1929-2018). At the age of 13, she was evacuated to Australia during the Japanese occupation in 1943 after the Japanese massacred her village near Same for collaborating with the Australians in late 1942. Her father Arsénio Filipe, who fought with the Australians, had previously been evacuated. The rest of the family died while fleeing from the Japanese. On the crossing to Australia she met Francisco Horta.

Francisco and Natalina had twelve children: José Ramos-Horta campaigned for the independence of East Timor , first against the Portuguese colonial power (for which he was temporarily exiled to Mozambique ), then against the Indonesian occupation. In 1996, Jose Ramos-Horta received the Nobel Peace Prize , from 2006 to 2007 he was Prime Minister of East Timor and from 2007 to 2012 President of East Timor . He has been the UN Special Envoy for Guinea-Bissau since 2013 . Loro Horta , the son of José Ramos-Horta, has been East Timor’s Ambassador to Cuba since 2016. Nuno Ramos-Horta and Guilherme Ramos-Horta died in 1977 by Indonesian security forces. The first died during a police interrogation, the other disappeared without a trace at the age of 14. Maria Ortencia Ramos-Horta died in an Indonesian air raid on December 19, 1978. António Ramos-Horta died in November 1992 due to poor medical care. Francisco Horta Jr. (February 13, 1948 - April 22, 2013) died of natural causes. Rosa Maria Horta is the widow of the East Timorese politician João Viegas Carrascalão and lives in East Timor.

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} John Pilger: Hidden Agendas , 2010, ISBN 1407086413 , p. 299.
2. ^ John Waddingham: Forgotten men: Timorese in Special Operations during World War II , Chamberlain book online, April 13, 2010
3. ^ Paul Cleary: The Men Who Came Out of the Ground: A gripping account of Australia's first commando campaign , 2011, ISBN 0733623182
4. ^ Official biography on the President's website. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved April 26, 2014 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  
5. ↑ CJITL: PR Hato'o kondolensia ba falesimentus Francisco Horta , April 23, 2013, accessed April 24, 2013