Louis Taolin

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Louis Taolin was an agent of the Indonesian military secret service Bakin and in 1974/75 one of the leading forces in the Komodo secret service operation . Its aim was to prepare for the annexation of Portuguese Timor .

background

Louis Taolin was the son of the Rajas of Insana , an empire in the Indonesian West Timor and nephew of El Tari , the Indonesian provincial governor of Nusa Tenggara Timur . Taolin held the post of Special Affairs Director on El Tari's staff. After the Carnation Revolution in Portugal in 1974, Taolin was given the task of "Portuguese Timor" by Bakin. He played the role of an "entrepreneur" with business interests in Portuguese Timor.

Taolin worked as a liaison to the Associação Popular Democrática Timorense (APODETI), the Indonesian-financed party in Portuguese Timor that advocated joining Indonesia instead of independence. For example with José Martins , who later became president of Klibur Oan Timor Asuwain (KOTA). When José Ramos-Horta , the ambassador of FRETILIN , was a guest in Jakarta in 1974 , he was accompanied by Taolin for the entire two weeks. Taolin was also a regular in the colonial capital Dili . Among other things, he also accompanied the official mission of Colonel Sugianto and Colonel Suharto Pitut in April 1975 to Dili. They met the Portuguese governor Mário Lemos Pires and representatives of the parties FRETILIN, União Democrática Timorense (UDT) and APODETI.

When Indonesian soldiers, disguised as UDT fighters, began to occupy the border areas of Portuguese Timor in October 1975, they executed five Western journalists in the border town of Balibo Vila who witnessed the hidden invasion. Together with Colonel Daden, a local Indonesian commander, Taolin flew to Balibo before the bodies of the so-called Balibo Five were destroyed.

Together with Aloysius Sugiyanto, Taolin drafted the Balibo Declaration , which was signed under pressure by leading members of the East Timorese parties who were in opposition to FRETILIN. This paper called on Indonesia to intervene in East Timor. It served Indonesia as legitimation for the invasion and annexation of East Timor.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c David Hicks: Rhetoric and the Decolonization and Recolonization of East Timor. Routledge, 2015, limited preview in Google Book Search.
  2. ^ Bill Nicol: Timor: A Nation Reborn. Equinox Publishing, 2002, p. 231 limited preview in Google Book search.
  3. ↑ a b Bill Nicol: Timor: A Nation Reborn. Equinox Publishing, 2002, p. 263 limited preview in Google Book search.
  4. ^ Bill Nicol: Timor: A Nation Reborn. Equinox Publishing, 2002, p. 127 limited preview in Google Book search.
  5. ↑ "Part 3: The History of the Conflict" (PDF; 1.4 MB) from the "Chega!" Report of the CAVR (English)
  6. ^ Nations Encyclopedia: East Timor - History , accessed November 4, 2017.
  7. ^ Bill Nicol: Timor: A Nation Reborn. Equinox Publishing, 2002, p. 308 limited preview in Google Book search.
personal data
SURNAME Taolin, Louis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Taolin, Lúis (Portuguese spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indonesian secret agent
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century