María do Céu Pereira

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María do Céu Pereira or Maria do Céu Carvarino († 1979 in East Timor ), battle name Bi Lear , was an East Timorese suffragette and independence activist.

Bi Lear had received a scholarship in Lisbon from the Portuguese government in the early 1970s . Together with her husband António Duarte Carvarino (Mau Lear) she lived in the Casa dos Timores , a meeting place for left-wing extremists East Timorese and pro -independence Portuguese Timors . In one photo, the two were referred to by an Indonesian publisher as the " Maoists from Lisbon". In September 1974 the couple returned to their homeland and both became members of the central committee of FRETILIN (CCF). Bi Lear became an assistant and political advisor to the National Political Commission (CPN).

On December 7th, Dili was invaded by Indonesia and a guerrilla war began against the occupiers. In February 1979, Mau Lear was captured and killed by the Indonesians in Manatuto . Shortly afterwards, Bi Lear decided to surrender to the concentration camp in Ostico and began negotiations with the help of the priest, Father Locatelli, as a mediator. Bi Lear was arrested in Venilale , where she remained in the home of an East Timorese collaborator under the control of the Military Police until April. Then she was taken away and disappeared.

In 2006, Bi Lear was posthumously awarded the Ordem de Dom Boaventura .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c "Chapter 7.2 Unlawful Killings and Enforced Disappearances" (PDF; 2.5 MB) from the "Chega!" Report of the CAVR (English)
  2. ^ Antero Bendito da Silva, Robert Boughton , Rebecca Spence: FRETILIN Popular Education 1973–1978 and its Relevance to Timor-Leste Today , University of New England, 2012, accessed June 5, 2019.
  3. ^ David Hicks: Rhetoric and the Decolonization and Recolonization of East Timor. Routledge, 2015, limited preview in Google Book Search.
  4. ↑ Clinton Fernandes: “Populist Catholics”: Fretilin 1975 , p.263 , accessed on May 16, 2016.
  5. ↑ a b Jornal da República : Edition of December 20, 2006 , accessed on March 22, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Pereira, María do Céu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bi Lear (battle name); Carvarino, Maria do Céu (alternative name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION East Timorese women's rights activist and independence activist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
DATE OF DEATH 1979
Place of death East Timor