Jacinto Alves

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Jacinto Alves (born December 21, 1957 in Manatuto , Portuguese Timor ) is an East Timorese independence activist and freedom fighter. He is the husband of Maria Domingas Alves .

At the beginning Alves was a fighter in the fight against the Indonesian occupiers in the Brigada de Choque and from 1977 to 1978 a member of the General Staff of the Forças Armadas de Libertação Nacional de Timor-Leste (FALINTIL). In 1978 most of the resistance collapsed. Alves became a civilian.

When one of Jacinto and Maria Alves' children died as a result of medical mishandling caused by the Indonesian treatment, which also killed hundreds of other children, the couple informed international organizations about the events. Jacinto Alves was arrested while Domingas continued to work against the Indonesian occupation and, above all, the abuse that many women suffered.

Alves became a member of the Executive Committee in East Timor of the Conselho Nacional de Resistência Ma Brille (CNRM). After the Santa Cruz massacre on November 12, 1991, Alves was arrested again by Indonesian security forces as one of the leaders of the independence movement and sentenced to a long prison term. On June 10, 1992, Alves was transferred from Dili Prison to Semarang Prison in Java without his family being informed .

As coordinator of the Association of Former Political Prisoners (Asosiação dos Ex-Prizioneiros Políticos no Klibur Solidariedade Timor-Leste) , Alves was a member of the Reception, Truth and Reconciliation Commission of East Timor (CAVR) from 2002 .

On May 12, 2005, Alves was sworn in as a member of the National Security Council. He is a member of Committee 12 de Novembru .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Newsletter on East Timor: Commission for Reception, Truth, and Reconciliation sworn in , accessed July 31, 2019.
  2. ↑ Japan Times: East Timor truth commission faces arduous task , May 15, 2002 , accessed July 31, 2019.
  3. ↑ Ben Kiernan: Genocide and Resistance in Southeast Asia: Documentation, Denial, and Justice in Cambodia and East Timor. Routledge, 2017, limited preview in Google Book Search.
  4. ↑ World People's Blog: Maria Domingas Fernandes Alves - East Timor
  5. ↑ Ben Kiernan: Genocide and Resistance in Southeast Asia: Documentation, Denial, and Justice in Cambodia and East Timor. Routledge, 2017, limited preview in Google Book Search.
  6. ↑ UNSW: Companion to East Timor - Crackdown after the Santa Cruz massacre , accessed July 31, 2019.
  7. ^ Dietrich Rauschning: East Timor and the International Community: Basic Documents. Cambridge University, 1997, limited preview in Google Book Search.
  8. ↑ Monika Schlicher: East Timor faces its past , missio-hilft.de , accessed on January 28, 2019
  9. ↑ 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.
  10. ↑ Taylor Francis: Dying for independence: proactive investigations into the November 12, 1991 Santa Cruz massacre, Timor Leste , October 19, 2010 , accessed July 31, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Alves, Jacinto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION East Timorese independence activist
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Manatuto , Portuguese Timor