José Martins (politician)

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José Martins (* 1925 ; † after 1975) was an East Timorese politician.

Career

Martins was a Mestizo ( Portuguese mestiço ) and son of a Liurai of the Mambai in Ermera , who was exiled from Portugal outside Timor because he did not want to recognize colonial rule. Martins lived for a while in Portugal, where he worked for the evening newspaper Diário Popular . Back in Portuguese Timor , he got a reputation for political questionability as he had close ties with Louis Taolin , the Indonesian government's anti-colonial agent until he was expelled. In 1962 (own information, a book mentions 1964) Martins was arrested by the Polícia Internacional e de Defesa do Estado (PIDE). The reason was his ties to an independence movement.

In 1974 Portuguese Timor was to be prepared for independence. First in May 1974 co-founder of the Associação Popular Democrática Timorense (APODETI), which advocated an annexation of East Timor to Indonesia , Martins joined the Associacão Popular Monarqui (c) a de Timor (APMT), which was founded in October and which took place in Klibur Oan Timor in November Asuwain (KOTA) was renamed and became its first president. The KOTA is a monarchist party that still exists in the independent East Timor, but has never been able to win greater popular support. When the União Democrática Timorense (UDT) wanted to take control of the colony in a coup in August 1975, Martins created an alliance between UDT, KOTA and APODETI in the civil war against the left-wing FRETILIN . However, the FRETILIN prevailed in the three-week fighting, so that Martins had to flee to the Indonesian West Timor in September . According to his own statements, he was forced to, together with representatives of UDT and APODETI, in the “ Balibo Declaration ” asked Indonesia for an intervention in East Timor against FRETILIN.

Even before the open invasion on December 7, 1975, Indonesian troops occupied the border region. On October 16, five western television journalists were murdered by Indonesian soldiers in the border town of Balibo Vila . The Indonesian army tried to cover up this. Martins was one of the main witnesses to the murder and attempted extermination of the corpses. He was flown to Balibo in a helicopter with Indonesian commanders the next day. In 1976 Martins fled Indonesia. On December 16, 1975, he testified in favor of Indonesia regarding the invasion of East Timor at the 1865th session of the United Nations Security Council , but in April succeeded in escaping during a tour of Europe. In a letter to the Secretary General of the United Nations Kurt Waldheim , Martins criticized Indonesia for the "bloody" invasion, stated that the number of civil war refugees indicated by Indonesia was not half as high, nor was it for East Timor's annexation to Indonesia and the Indonesian military some were forcibly recruited.

family

Martins was the nephew of Liurais Guilherme Gonçalves and a close relative of Hermenegildo Martins , the vice president of APODETI.

Web links

  • Timor Information Service: Number 9/10, May 6, 1976 : p. 5, letter from José Martins to UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim of April 29, 1976 (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Pat Walsh : East Timor's Political Parties and Groupings Briefing Notes , Australian Council for Overseas Aid 2001, 1st edition (English; MS Word ; 174 kB)
  2. ↑ a b c d David Hicks: Rhetoric and the Decolonization and Recolonization of East Timor , 2014, ISBN 9781317695349 .
  3. ^ Heike Krieger: East Timor and the International Community: Basic Documents , 1997, ISBN 9780521581349 .
  4. ↑ Jose Martins at UN Decol. Committee , July 18, 1994 ( Memento of the original from December 1, 2017 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. , accessed November 24, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.library.ohio.edu
  5. ^ East Timor Government: History , accessed November 24, 2017.
  6. ^ A b Bill Nicol: Timor: A Nation Reborn, 2002, ISBN 9789799589866 .
  7. ↑ Australian Government: The 'Balibo affair', East Timor, October 1975 - Fact sheet 238 , accessed November 24, 2017.
  8. ↑ José Ramos-Horta : Funu: The Unfinished Saga of East Timor , pp. 186 ff., 1987, ISBN 9780932415158 .
  9. ↑ Security Council Official Records: 1915th meeting ( Memento of the original from December 1, 2017 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. , P. 8 ff., Accessed on November 24, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / dag.un.org
personal data
SURNAME Martins, José
BRIEF DESCRIPTION East Timorese politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1925
DATE OF DEATH between 1994 and 2002