Maria Genoveva da Costa Martins

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Maria Genoveva da Costa Martins (* 1956 in Ermera , Portuguese Timor ) is a politician from East Timor . She is a member of FRETILIN .

Martins is the widow of the freedom fighter Francisco Borja da Costa , the poet of the national anthem of East Timor , who was killed in the Indonesian invasion in 1975 . On the day of the attack on the capital Dili , Martins was on behalf of FRETILIN in Baucau , which is why she was not killed like her husband. In the resistance she worked as a teacher for the civilians who sought refuge with the resistance fighters in the base.

Martins was captured and tortured by the Indonesians in October 1979 . Among other things, cigarettes were stubbed out on her face. She came out of her first detention eight months later because she had relatives with the pro-Indonesian APODETI party . She later hid Xanana Gusmão , the chief of the FALINTIL military resistance, in her home in Ermera . Together with other women, Martins provided the guerrilla fighters with food, medicine and clothing. The women also worked as messengers and scouts. Her code name on the network was " São Tomé ". In December 1991, Martins was arrested for the second time. She was tortured again. Again she got help from her family. A policeman friend took her in a patrol car to Atambua in the Indonesian West Timor , where Martins hid for a long time.

After the Indonesians left in 1999, Martins became a member of the National Consultative Council (NCC), which formed a transitional parliament in East Timor until 2000 under the UN administration . In the 2001 elections , Martins was elected to 36th place on the FRETILIN list in the Constituent Assembly, which became the National Parliament of East Timor when it became independent on May 20, 2002 . In the parliamentary elections in East Timor in 2007 , Martins was only the fourth substitute candidate (69th place on the list) and in 2012 the 15th substitute delegate (80th place on the list).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Jornal de Notícias: Timor-Leste: Viúva do poeta Borja da Costa recorda a clandestinidade ea tortura , May 17, 2008 , accessed on July 16, 2020. (Portuguese)
  2. ↑ Nat J. Colletta, Teck Ghee Lim, Anita Kelles-Viitanen: Social Cohesion and Conflict Prevention in Asia: Managing Diversity Through Development , 2001. Limited preview in the Google book search.
  3. ↑ Electoral lists of all parties and list of independent candidates, August 2001 , accessed on April 27, 2020.
  4. ↑ List from the STAE with the candidates for the parliamentary elections 2007. (PDF file; 819 kB) Accessed on July 16, 2020. (Tetum)
  5. ↑ Electoral lists of the parliamentary elections 2012. (PDF; 2.3 MB) Accessed on July 16, 2020. (English)
personal data
SURNAME Martins, Maria Genoveva da Costa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION East Timorese politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Ermera , Portuguese Timor