Gregório Saldanha

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Gregório da Cunha Saldanha (* 1962 (?)) Is a politician and independence activist from East Timor . He was a member of the FRETILIN party , but founded the Partido Timor Forte (PATIFOR) in 2020 .

Career

Together with Francisco Miranda Branco and six other East Timorese people, Saldanha formed the Executive Committee ( Comité Executivo ) of the Conselho Nacional de Resistência Maupe (CNRM), the umbrella organization of the East Timorese resistance against the Indonesian occupation. In 1991 it wanted to contact a Portuguese parliamentary delegation to draw attention to the situation in East Timor under the Indonesian occupation. A demonstration in Dili ended in the Santa Cruz massacre on November 12 , in which at least 271 demonstrators were killed by Indonesian security forces. Saldanha was injured and taken to hospital. The members of the Executive Committee were charged with various crimes in connection with the demonstration. Six of them were sentenced to several years in prison. The highest went to Saldanha, who was sentenced to life imprisonment for " subversion ". He was considered the main organizer of the demonstration.

Saldanha's detention ended prematurely when Indonesia withdrew from East Timor in 1999. From 2000 to 2001 Saldanha was a representative of the youth in the National Council (NC) and from 2001 to 2007, like Branco, for FRETILIN a member of the National Parliament of East Timor . On May 12, 2005 he was sworn in as a member of the National Security Council. From 2010 to 2014 Saldanha was a member of the National Executive Council of the Cruz Vermelha de Timor-Leste (CVTL), the East Timorese Red Cross.

In 2019 he was President of the November 12th Committee (Comité 12 de Novembro), but announced his resignation on July 27th, 2020 as soon as his PATIFOR party, which was founded in that year, received official registration.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CDPM Lists Defendants ( Memento of March 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Indonesia Information - September 1992 (East Timor Trials): The 'case' against Francisco Miranda Branco , accessed on February 18, 2014.
  3. ↑ Human Rights Watch: EAST TIMOR: REMEMBERING HISTORY: The Trial of Xanana Gusmao and a Follow-up on the Dili Massacre , April 1993, p. 19 , accessed February 19, 2014
  4. ↑ Pat Walsh : East Timor's Political Parties and Groupings Briefing Notes , Australian Council for Overseas Aid 2001 ( Memento from January 1, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (English; MS Word ; 174 kB)
  5. ↑ List of MPs in the National Parliament of East Timor 2001 ( Memento of September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Ruth Elizabeth Nuttall: The Origins and Onset of the 2006 Crisis in Timor-Leste , PhD Thesis, The Australian National University, February 2017 , accessed July 31, 2019.
  7. ↑ Cruz Vermelha de Timor-Leste 5-Year Report 2010-2014 , accessed on March 2, 2017.
  8. ↑ La'o hamutuk: People's Committee gives Solidarity Prize to Saskia . September 17, 2019 , accessed November 28, 2019.
  9. ↑ Timor Post: Gregório Saldanha deixará Comité 12 de Novembro após formalização do PATIFOR , July 28, 2020 , accessed on August 2, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Saldanha, Gregório
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Saldanha, Gregório da Cunha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION East Timorese politician
DATE OF BIRTH uncertain: 1962