Leandro Isaac

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Leandro Isaac (born December 23, 1953 ), also Leandro Isac , is a politician from East Timor . He is of Mozambican descent.

Life

Originally, Isaac was one of the leading members of the União Democrática Timorense (UDT), which worked with the invaders at the beginning of the Indonesian occupation. Isaac was a member of the provincial government but was arrested on November 18, 1981 after he and others leaked to the international press a report on Indonesian violence and corruption in East Timor, which was addressed to Indonesian President Suharto in August . After Indonesian politicians protested against the arrest, Isaac was released.

In 2000, Isaac was a founding member of the Partido Social Democrata (PSD) and became its vice-chairman. In the umbrella organization of the East Timorese resistance against the Indonesian occupation, the Conselho Nacional de Resistência Timorense (CNRT), Isaac was PSD representative and chairman of the last CNRT congress.

During the last wave of violence in East Timor in 1999 by pro-Indonesian militias , Isaac and David Ximenes were the only CNRT representatives to remain in the state capital, Dili . Isaac's house was ransacked. Like over 140 other refugees, he himself sought protection in the house of Manuel Carrascalão , which, however, was also stormed on April 17th ( see: Massacre in the house of Manuel Carrascalão ). 14 people were killed, including Carrascalão's son. Isaac was taken to police headquarters with 50 other refugees, where he was placed under protection. The death of Isaac has been incorrectly reported.

In the 2001 Constituent Assembly elections , Isaac was elected MP as a PSD candidate. With the restoration of the country's independence in 2002, the assembly became the national parliament of East Timor . In 2003 Isaac and the PSD fell apart. He was expelled from the party on May 6th because he was not loyal to the party and tended to support the ruling FRETILIN party . An application by the party for his exclusion from parliament failed, so that Isaac was now an independent MP.

In 2006 riots broke out in East Timor . Isaac sided with the mutinous soldiers, the petitioners , who made various political demands. On May 24, mutineers raided General Taur Matan Ruak's private home . There was an exchange of fire. Isaac is said to have been involved in the attack. After the International Stabilization Force (ISF) intervened , the violence subsided. Several petitioners were arrested for illicit gun possession but escaped from prison and hid in the wilderness. Isaac joined them on March 1, 2007 when the petitioners were trapped in Same by Australian forces . Access on March 4th failed. Most of the petitioners escaped. Isaac stayed with them in the jungle for two months to provide political support to the Petitioners, but broke up with them when they began planning an armed revolt against the government. When an attempted assassination attempt on the state leadership failed on February 11, 2008 and the rebel leader Alfredo Reinado was killed, the movement collapsed.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Banco Nacional Ultramarino's blog: MARÇALO EM TIMOR , July 11, 2012 , accessed on May 3, 2014
  2. ↑ Timor Information Service: Jan./Feb. 1982 , accessed May 3, 2014.
  3. ↑ Green left Weekly: EAST TIMOR: Fretilin wins, but no landslide , September 5, 2001 , accessed May 3, 2014
  4. ↑ Fernando de Araújo : Out of Ashes, chapter 6 , accessed March 3, 2014
  5. ↑ Alexander Laban Hinton, Kevin Lewis O'Neill (Eds.): Genocide: Truth, Memory, and Representation , Duke University Press, 2009.
  6. ^ Ronny Hansen, Coordinator Norwegian Cooperation Council for East Timor and Indonesia TIMOR: CNRT's Leandro Isaac feared killed today , accessed March 3, 2014
  7. ↑ List of MPs in the National Parliament of East Timor 2001 ( Memento of September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ APSN: East Timor News Digest 12 - May 5-18, 2003 , accessed May 3, 2014
  9. ^ Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation East Timor: Local Media Monitoring - June 30, 2003, June 30, 2003 ( Memento of November 8, 2003 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on May 3, 2014.
  10. ↑ Daily Media Review 07 May 2003 ( Memento of the original from May 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed May 3, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / lists.topica.com
  11. ↑ Timor-Leste Democracy Support Network: Media Relaease: Capture of Reinado rebel group in Timor Leste , March 4, 2007 , accessed on May 3, 2014.
  12. ↑ TVNZ, February 14, 2008, Timor kidnap plot suspected ( Memento of May 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on May 3, 2014.
  13. ↑ Time: A Frustrating Manhunt in Timor , February 17, 2008 , accessed May 3, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Isaac, Leandro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Isac, Leandro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION East Timorese politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1953