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The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Marine (disambiguation) .

Maubere ( also Mau'bere ) is a collective term for the indigenous population of East Timor . Occasionally the East Timorese men are addressed with “ Maupe ” and the female population of the country with “ Buibere ” ( mambai for woman ).

history

Maeaner was originally a Portuguese name for the Mambai , one of the largest ethnic groups in East Timor . Maupe or Mau Bere is a common male given name among the Mambai.

During the colonial period, the Portuguese called the rural population Portuguese Timor Maetze to distinguish them from the Portuguese settlers and Mestiços . It became synonymous with uncivilized illiterate people. At the beginning of the 1970s, the poet Inácio de Moura was the first to use “Maetze” as a term for the inhabitants of Timor . José Ramos-Horta , member of FRETILIN , took up this in 1973. His party used the term from 1974/75. The competing UDT rejected him as racist because he excluded the population of European origin. During the Indonesian occupation from 1975 onwards, “Maupe” became the Timorese's powerful battle term, while it continued to split FRETILIN and UDT.

When in 1988 the Conselho Nacional de Resistência Maupe CNRM ( National Council of the Resistance of the Maupe ) was founded as the new umbrella organization of the East Timorese resistance against the Indonesian occupation, this name was deliberately chosen for the inhabitants of East Timor. However, UDT and KOTA initially refused to cooperate in the CNRM with FRETILIN, allegedly because of the term Maetze. It was later Maubere by Timorense replaced and the other parties joined the association.

Even after independence, the term was still used in East Timor, for example by the Movimentu Libertasaun ba Povu Mauchte MLPM ( German  freedom movement for the people of the Marine ) and the management consultancy Instituto Mau'bere ba Koperasi no'o Igualade IMKI ( Maupe Institute for Cooperation and Equality ) by PST Secretary General Avelino Coelho da Silva .

See also

• Radio Maetze
• Radio e Televisão Maetze

literature

• Abilio Araujo : East Timor. The Loricos are singing again. From the wars of independence to the revolution of the Marine people ("Timor leste", 1977). Albatros-Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 1978, ISBN 3-921975-21-2 .
• Francisco Borja da Costa : De schreeuw van Mareinigung. Strijdliederen voor het people of East Timor . Knipscheer, Haarlem 1979, ISBN 90-6265-017-1 .

Web links

• The Legends of Maetze ( Memento from January 23, 2009 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Message from the President of the Republic after the Publication of the Parliamentary election results, August 2, 2017.
2. ^ Edward Aspinall, Robin Jeffrey, Anthony J. Regan: Diminishing Conflicts in Asia and the Pacific: Why Some Subside and Others Don't , 2013, ISBN 9780415670319 .
3. ^ Andrew McWilliam, Elizabeth G. Traube: Land and Life in Timor-Leste: Ethnographic Essays , p. 119, Canberra 2011.
4. ^ 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.
5. ↑ "Part 3: The History of the Conflict" (PDF; 1.4 MB) from the "Chega!" Report of the CAVR (English)