Laclo

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Laclo
Laclo
Coordinates	8 ° 33 ′  S , 125 ° 55 ′  E Coordinates: 8 ° 33 ′  S , 125 ° 55 ′  E
Basic data
Country	East Timor
local community	Manatuto
Administrative office	Laclo
Suco	Uma Caduac , Lacumesac
height	177 m
The place Laclo

Laclo ( Lacló , Laculo , Lakló , Lucló , Luclo ) is the capital of the East Timorese administrative office of the same name, Laclo ( Manatuto municipality ).

Place name

According to one version, the place name is derived from Galoli "Laco-O" ( German  "Ich rufe Dich" ). According to another version, the inhabitants of Laclos are said to have dammed a large lake with a dam, which still existed when the first Portuguese reached the country. "Laclo" should therefore be formed from the Portuguese "Lago" and the Galoli word "O" and mean "your lake". The lake no longer exists today.

geography

Districts of Laclo
places	position	height	places	position	height
Hahi Hoho	8 ° 33 ′  S , 125 ° 55 ′  E	187  m	Hohorai	8 ° 33 ′  S , 125 ° 55 ′  E	177  m
Laclo	8 ° 33 ′  S , 125 ° 55 ′  E	177  m	Nacaleo	8 ° 33 ′  S , 125 ° 55 ′  E	159  m
Readodoc	8 ° 33 '  S , 125 ° 54'  E	236  m	Umanaruk	8 ° 33 ′  S , 125 ° 55 ′  E	159  m
Umasurat	8 ° 33 ′  S , 125 ° 55 ′  E	159  m

The Coronel São Vicente Ferrer de Lacló Church

The place Laclo is located in the interior of Timor , about 31 km as the crow flies east of the state capital Dili and just under 13 km southwest of the municipal capital Manatuto . A relatively well-developed road leads from Laclo to the northern coastal road near Manatuto, which connects the regions of the country. Laclo lies at an altitude of 177  m above sea level , on the north bank of Northern Laclós . Its tributary, the Liloco, divides Laclo. The east with the districts Hahi Hoho ( Hahihoho ) and Nacaleo ( Nacaleun , Nacleu ) belongs to the Suco Uma Caduac , the west with the districts Laclo , Hohorai , Readodoc ( Reododok , Leododok ) Umanaruk and Umasurat belongs to the Suco Lacumesac .

Laclo has two primary schools, the Escola Presecundaria Mantane and a community health center.

The yellow church Igreja Coronel São Vicente Ferrer de Lacló with two towers was consecrated on July 10, 2011 after renovation work. It is east of the river.

history

See also : History of East Timor

The old primary school dates back to the Portuguese colonial times

Festival in Laclo

Laclo was one of the traditional kingdoms of Timor, ruled by a liurai . It appears on a list by Afonso de Castro , a former governor of Portuguese Timor who listed 47 empires in 1868. The Laclo Liurai belonged to the Mambai ethnic group .

In 1670 Franciscans founded a mission in Laclo. In 1752 a Catholic church was built. Alongside Manatuto, Laclo became a Christian center in the region.

In the spring of 1861, revolts broke out in Laclo against forced labor on public projects. Afonso de Castro then sent Cabeira , a veteran and expert on the country, to set up a base in Manatuto. But he could only fall back on a few troops from Vemasse . There was already fighting in April. On August 26, the rebellion in Laclo was put down. The rebel camp was burned down and local allies were allowed looting and headhunting of the rebels. In June 1863 an uprising in Laga was put down. The rebel chief was captured by Laclo.

During the 1912 Manufahi Rebellion , fighting broke out again in the region. Jaime do Inso , second lieutenant of the Portuguese gunboat Patria, reported three heads that had been hung in Laclo.

In 1935 the Portuguese missionary Padre Ezequiel Enes Pascoal used the death of the ritual guardian of Uma Lulik of Laclo to gather all the sacred ( lulik ) objects with the help of some local guides and burn them on a stake next to the chapel.

In 1976 Laclo was a retreat of the FALINTIL , who fought against the Indonesian invaders. Here they established a base de apoio , a resistance base, the refuge for refugees from the district Manatuto, Dili and Aileu offered.

In 1977 hungry refugees who had dared come down from the mountains to harvest their fields were driven out by Indonesian soldiers. The soldiers burned the gardens and shot the cattle.

In Laclo there was an Indonesian camp for East Timorese at the end of 1979, who were to be relocated by the Indonesian occupiers for better control. The people of Laclo were only allowed to farm in the immediate vicinity on the stony ground. Almost every day people died of hunger and disease, until in 1980 the Indonesian army allowed them to cultivate their fields again. The remote areas of the sub-district have been depopulated. From 1970 to 1980, Laclo's population decreased by 45.1% from 6,512 to 3,578 people.

On September 6, 1999, the residents of Laclo expected an attack by the pro-Indonesian Mahodomi militia and the Indonesian army. People fled to the woods but then returned to their homes later that day. They fled again the next day when the police and the military burned down public buildings and the militia patrolled the streets. At least four people were murdered and many others were gunshot wounded.

Web links

Commons : Laclo  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Fallingrain.com: Directory of Cities, Towns, and Regions in East Timor
2. ↑ List of polling stations for the parliamentary elections in East Timor 2007 (PDF file; 118 kB)
3. ↑ UNMIT map of the Manatuto district, August 2008 ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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; 581 kB) 
4. ↑ Picture of the plaque on Facebook
5. ↑ TIMOR LORO SAE, Um pouco de história ( Memento of the original dated November 13, 2001 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. 
6. ↑ East Timor - PORTUGUESE DEPENDENCY OF EAST TIMOR ( Memento of February 21, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
7. ↑ ^{a b c} Judith Bovensiepen, Frederico Delgado Rosa: Transformations of the sacred in East Timor , accessed December 27, 2017.
8. ↑ History of Timor - Technical University of Lisbon ( Memento of the original from March 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 824 kB) 
9. ↑ ^{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)