Iliomar
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| Coordinates | 8 ° 43 ′ S , 126 ° 50 ′ E | ||
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| Country | East Timor | ||
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| Administrative office | Iliomar | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | TL-LA | ||
| Suco | Aelebere , Iliomar I and Iliomar II | ||
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Iliomar is the main town of the East Timorese administrative office Iliomar ( Lautém municipality ).
Surname
The place name is derived from the Makalero words Ili ( English : stone) and omar ( stilt house ).
geography
The place is located in the southwest of the municipality near the south coast of Timor at an altitude of 315 meters above sea level. It is distributed over the sucos Aelebere , Iliomar I and Iliomar II . There is a primary school, a library, a secondary school preparation school and a community health center. The soccer field by the primary school is used as a helipad. In the village there is an equestrian statue depicting the former ruler Nokameta . It was damaged in 1999 during the wave of violence by pro-Indonesian militias . The Catholic Church has its own pastor, the surrounding villages mostly have chapels. Iliomar only had a fault-prone power supply again since 2002. Two diesel generators supply the place between 7 a.m. and 12 p.m., provided fuel is available. The regional market takes place here on Thursday and Sunday mornings. There are also two shops and a few small kiosks. The villages of Fuat (in Suco Iliomar I), Ara'Ara , Aelebere, and Uatamar (all in Suco Aelebere) belong to the settlement center of Iliomar .
It is 28 km to the northeast as the crow flies to the municipal capital Lospalos and about 137 km to the northwest to the state capital Dili . The southern coastal road, one of the country's main traffic axes, leaves the coast a few kilometers west of Iliomar, runs through the town and then 42 km further to Lospalos, its eastern end. Depending on the condition of the road, the journey can take three to five hours. Especially in the rainy season it can happen that the roads are impassable due to landslides. A truck drives to Iliomar regularly, and now and then a bus.
history
The then rulers Nokameta and Rapimeta moved the places Iliomar I and II, probably around 1894, a few kilometers along the coast to the northeast to their current locations. In 1904 a Portuguese military post with a fort and port was established in Iliomar . The coral reef interrupted here offered protection to the harbor. Today only ruins are left of the complex.
In 1976, Iliomar was a retreat of the FALINTIL , who fought against the Indonesian invaders. Here she founded a base de apoio , a resistance base that offered refuge for refugees from Iliomar, Lospalos and Uatucarbau. The resistance fighter Francisco Ruas Hornay had his home base in Iliomar. However, due to internal fighting, he was imprisoned in the FRETILIN and executed on November 24, 1976.
It was not until 1977 that the Indonesian army began to attack the region around Iliomar. At the end of the year the remaining population of Iliomar was also evacuated by the FRETILIN. First to Mount Legumau , and when the Indonesians moved from Uatucarbau in June 1978 , on to Lavateri and finally to Matebian . After the collapse of the resistance there on November 22, 1978, the residents of Iliomar wanted to return to their homeland. On November 28th, they encountered Indonesian troops who took them to the Baguia military base for interrogation. Those identified as FRETILIN leaders were tortured and in some cases executed. The others were able to return to the Iliomar administrative office. For the first three weeks 4,000 to 6,000 refugees settled around the old Portuguese base. Then Indonesian soldiers from Battalion 328 and Hansip militiamen arrived in Iliomar. Six military posts were immediately established around the post. The Chefes de Suco were instructed to reorganize their people. Emergency shelters were set up within the military ring. Portuguese was banned as a language. Nobody was allowed more than a kilometer from the old Portuguese post, not even to forage. Anyone who did not comply was threatened with shooting. Each family received canned corn a week that was just enough for three meals. Despite the possibility of creating gardens, the locals were forbidden. Soon there was a famine. Cholera and beriberi broke out and people died. For a while, a few were allowed to look for food outside the camp, but when 162 Timorese fled this relief was abolished. It is estimated that 305 people died per month in Iliomar between January and July 1979. Many of the dead were buried near the old Portuguese school. Some of the victims have since been dug up by their families and buried elsewhere. The Red Cross provided the residents with food between September 1979 and 1981. The death rate dropped to ten a month. From mid-1982, UNICEF took over the supply, but had to cease operations in 1983 when the Indonesian military operations in the region increased.
In 1983, an armistice was agreed between Indonesians and FALINTIL in the region. The 1990s remained largely calm. After the independence referendum in East Timor in 1999 , in which the majority of East Timorese voted for independence from Indonesia, the Indonesian armed forces burned public buildings in Iliomar, such as the administration building, the medical station and the pre-secondary school, and shot several pets.
Sports
The FC Lero playing in the league Futebol Amadora Segunda Divisão 2018 . Another registered football club is AS Lero .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g Juliette Huber: A grammar of Makalero - A Papuan language of East Timor , LOT Utrecht 2011
- ^ Ernest Chamberlain: The Struggle in Iliomar: Resistance in rural East Timor Iliomar Sub-District , 2017 , accessed December 26, 2017.
- ↑ http://www.etwa.org.au/about/about-iliomar/ ( Memento of March 8, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) About Iliomar
- ↑ a b c d "Chapter 7.3 Forced Displacement and Famine" ( Memento of the original from November 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.3 MB) from the "Chega!" Report by CAVR (English)
- ↑ "Chapter 7.2 Unlawful Killings and Enforced Disappearances" ( Memento of the original from November 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 2.5 MB) from the "Chega!" Report by CAVR (English)
The administrative borders within East Timor changed in 2015. This article must therefore be checked and updated if necessary. See New Administrative Boundaries .