Lela (Holpilat)

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Lela
Lela (East Timor)
Lela
Lela
Coordinates 9 ° 11 ′  S , 125 ° 12 ′  E Coordinates: 9 ° 11 ′  S , 125 ° 12 ′  E
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Basic data
Country East Timor

local community

Cova Lima
Administrative office Maucatar
ISO 3166-2 TL-CO
Suco Holpilat
height 599 m
Residents 54 (2015)

Lela is a place and Aldeia in the East Timorese Suco Holpilat ( administrative office Maucatar , municipality of Cova Lima ).

Geography and inhabitants

Lela is located in the northwest of Holpilat, south of the Lotula River, a source of the Raiketans , near the border with Indonesia . Ager is the northwestern neighbor. Lela lies at an altitude of 599  m . Belonging to Aldeia Lela, 54 people were recorded in the census.

history

Lela was part of the Empire of Maucatar, which was initially under Dutch control during the colonial era. In 1916 Maucatar came to Portugal as part of a territory swap and became part of the Portuguese Timor colony .

In the run-up to the open invasion, Indonesia tried to occupy the border areas as early as October 1975. An attack on Lela in the middle of the month failed due to the resistance of FRETILIN . 20 East Timorese under the leadership of Albino do Carmo defended the place in a battle with mortars and machine guns against about 100 attackers of the Indonesian armed forces. In the previous civil war in August subject Timorese Democratic Union (UDT) and Timorese Popular Democratic Association (APODETI) the fighters of FRETILIN. On November 20, 650 supporters of the UDT fled Lela across the border to Indonesia, including Rui Emiliano Teixeira Lopes , for fear of reprisals . Some settled in West Timor and are part of the Bunak minority there . It was not until the New Year 1978 that the region was conquered by the Indonesians.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Direcção-Geral de Estatística : Results of the 2015 census , accessed on November 23, 2016.
  2. ↑ Antoinette Schapper: Finding Bunaq: The homeland and expansion of the Bunaq in central Timor ( Memento of the original from October 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / epress.anu.edu.au 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. , Pp. 163–186, in: Andrew McWilliam, Elizabeth G. Traube: Land and Life in Timor-Leste: Ethnographic Essays , 2011
  3. ↑ "Part 3: The History of the Conflict" (PDF; 1.4 MB) from the "Chega!" Report of the CAVR (English)
  4. ↑ "Chapter 7.3 Forced Displacement and Famine" (PDF; 1.3 MB) from the "Chega!" Report of the CAVR (English)
  5. ^ Antoinette Schapper: Crossing the border: Historical and linguistic divides among the Bunaq in central Timor , p. 10.