Laga

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Laga
Laga (East Timor)
Laga
Laga
Coordinates 8 ° 28 ′  S , 126 ° 36 ′  E Coordinates: 8 ° 28 ′  S , 126 ° 36 ′  E
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Basic data
Country East Timor

local community

Baucau
Administrative office Laga
Suco Soba
height 78 m
On the left the town of Laga, on the right the Lequinamo and Uaimuhi rivers.
On the left the town of Laga, on the right the Lequinamo and Uaimuhi rivers .

Laga is the main town of the Laga administrative office in the East Timorese municipality of Baucau .

geography

The São João Bosco Church in Laga.

The place is in the east of the municipality of Baucau, in Suco Soba , east of the confluence of the Lequinamo river in the Wetar Strait . Despite its location by the sea, the center of the city is already 78  m above sea level . To the municipal capital Baucau it is 15 km as the crow flies and to the state capital Dili about 114 km to the west.

Laga has a pre-school ( Escola Pre-Primaria No. 1 Soba ), a pre- secondary school, a helipad and a community health center. There is also a small market and a harbor. The Igreja de S. João Bosco de Laga church is a modern building based on the colonial Portuguese style. Two rectangular towers frame the concrete facade of the entrance. On the gable roof in between, a cross sits enthroned above the entrance, with a tile picture underneath. A Portuguese fort with two round towers is located on a small hill south of the main road.

The 1st Battalion of the East Timorese Defense Forces is based in Laga.

history

In June 1863 an uprising of the Makasae of Laga was suppressed by the Portuguese and the village burned down. The leader of the 1861 rebellion was captured in Laclo . In August 1867, the inhabitants of the Galoli Empire of Vemasse , to which Laga belonged, rebelled . This rebellion also failed. In 1889 the Portuguese established a military post in Laga.

In the 1930s, a school building was built in Laga by District Administrator Armando Eduardo Pinto Correia .

When Laga was occupied by the Indonesians on December 10, 1975 , the population fled to the forests. The Indonesian soldiers killed the cattle, stole food supplies and burned houses. At the end of 1979 there was an Indonesian camp for East Timorese in Laga, who should be relocated by the occupiers for better control.

Laga is considered to be the home of many members of the paramilitary Konseilu Revolusionariu Maupe (KRM, German  Revolutionary Council Maupe ). Several incidents with the KRM occurred here. In November 2013, KRM members violated the general ban on civilians wearing military uniforms during a march on the Laga football field. On March 3, the KRM was declared illegal. On March 10, KRM members erected a blockade on the road to Baucau . One person was injured by an explosive device that was thrown. The KRM leadership surrendered to the authorities on March 14, but was released in December 2014. In January 2015, the KRM took two police officers hostage in Laga and wounded two others. Prime Minister Xanana Gusmão personally drove to Laga in a convoy and negotiated the release of the hostages. Mauk Moruk fled with his people into the jungle.

Sons and daughters

Girls in traditional costume

Town twinning

There is a partnership with the Australian Cooloola Shire Council .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. List of polling stations for the parliamentary elections in East Timor 2007 (PDF file; 118 kB)
  2. UNMIT: Timor-Leste District Atlas version 02, 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; 499 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / unmit.unmissions.org
  3. ^ Colonial Voyage: Asia. Portuguese Colonial Remains 16th – 18th centuries , accessed January 6, 2015.
  4. International Crisis Group: Resolving Timor-Leste's Crisis, 2006 ( Memento of October 10, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
  5. 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) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / pascal.iseg.utl.pt
  6. Heritage of Portuguese Influence Portal: The Pinto Correia Schools , August 9, 2012 , accessed August 21, 2015.
  7. "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) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cavr-timorleste.org
  8. Ex-Guerrillas Threaten Political Stability in East Timor , April 1, 2014 , accessed March 8, 2015.
  9. Jornal da República : Resolução do Parlamento Nacional n.º 4/2014 de 4 de Março: De repúdio a tentativas de instabilidade e ameaças ao Estado de Direito , Série I, n ° 9 of March 4, 2014 ( Memento of the original of June 5, 2014 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 March 10, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jornal.gov.tl
  10. East Timor Law and Justice Bulletin: Breach in East Timor Defense Force (F-FDTL) Chain of Command Exposes Military Vulnerability, says Fundasaun Mahein , March 14, 2014 , accessed March 8, 2015.
  11. ANGOP: Timor Leste: Tribunal de Díli determina libertação imediata de Mauk Moruk e comandante Labarik , December 15, 2014 , accessed on March 8, 2015.
  12. Janina Pawelz: The withdrawal of Prime Minister Gusmão: Setting the political course in Timor-Leste , GIGA Focus Number 2, 2015 , ISSN  1862-359X , accessed on March 8, 2015.
  13. ^ Website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of East Timor ( Memento from May 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive )