Justino Mota

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Justino Mota († 1990s ) was an East Timorese politician and independence activist. His ancestors came from Timor , Africa and Europe .

Life

Mota had the Liceu Dr. Francisco Machado visited and worked as a civil servant until the Carnation Revolution in 1974. His mother was a religion teacher and strictly Catholic. He belonged to a group of young Timorese who began in the colony of Portuguese Timor in January 1970 to become politically involved in discussions for independence. In 1974, after the Carnation Revolution had overturned the Portuguese dictatorship , they founded the left-wing East Timorese party FRETILIN (initially under the name ASDT), in which Mota was part of the social democratic wing. In the party he took over the post of second general secretary.

In the first days of the Indonesian invasion in December 1975, Mota and his wife were captured by the Indonesians . He spent three years in captivity and his wife 18 months. There was no trial. In 1982 Mota went into exile in Portugal with his wife and children . He died in the early 1990s of tuberculosis , which had already worsened after Indonesian captivity in Comarca prison ( Balide , Dili ).

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ José Ramos-Horta: Funu - East Timor's fight for freedom is not over! , Ahriman, Freiburg 1997. ISBN 3-89484-556-2
  2. ^ A b c Antero Bendito da Silva, Robert Boughton , Rebecca Spence: FRETILIN Popular Education 1973-1978 and its Relevance to Timor-Leste Today , University of New England, 2012, accessed June 5, 2019.
  3. ↑ "Part 3: The History of the Conflict" (PDF; 1.4 MB) from the "Chega!" Report of the CAVR (English)
  4. ↑ Universidade de Coimbra: Formation of East-Timorese political associations from John G Taylor, Indonesia's Forgotten War: The Hidden History of East Timor (Zed Books, London, 1991)
  5. ^ School of Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS): ASDT
  6. ↑ CAVR: Other Files ( Memento from November 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 180 kB)
  7. ^ School of Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS): Companion to East Timor
personal data
SURNAME Mota, Justino
BRIEF DESCRIPTION East Timorese politician and independence activist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
DATE OF DEATH 20th century