Ossu de Cima

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Ossu de Cima
At Monte Mundo Perdido
The Suco Ossu de Cima extends from the north to the southwest of the Ossu Administrative Office.
Data
surface 103.19 km²
population 4,263  (2015)
Chefe de Suco João Guterres
(election 2009)
Aldeias Population  (2015)
Baca-Isi 598
Belas 775
Borala 734
Cai Uai Ho O 853
Liamida 596
Lugabuti 390
Uairio 130
Uma Ana Ico 187
Ossu (East Timor)
Ossu
Ossu
Coordinates: 8 ° 44 ′  S , 126 ° 22 ′  E

Ossu de Cima ( Upper Ossu ) is an East Timorese suco in the administrative office of Ossu ( municipality of Viqueque ).

geography

Ossu de Cima
places position height
Baca-Isi 8 ° 45 '  S , 126 ° 23'  E 536  m
Belas 8 ° 44 '  S , 126 ° 23'  E 622  m
Borala 8 ° 44 '  S , 126 ° 23'  E 536  m
Cai Uai Ho O 8 ° 43 '  S , 126 ° 22'  E 804  m
Liamida 8 ° 44 ′  S , 126 ° 22 ′  E 804  m
Liawaeoli 8 ° 45 ′  S , 126 ° 21 ′  E 655  m
Lugabuti 8 ° 44 '  S , 126 ° 23'  E 674  m
Ossu 8 ° 44 ′  S , 126 ° 22 ′  E 622  m
Uairio 8 ° 44 ′  S , 126 ° 22 ′  E 687  m
Uma Ana Ico 8 ° 44 ′  S , 126 ° 22 ′  E 622  m

The Suco Ossu de Cima extends from the center to the southwest of the Ossu Administrative Office. During the 2015 territorial reform, large parts of Ossu de Cima were cut off. The northeast, from the Caimalulo River (a tributary of the Cuha ) to the border with the Baucau municipality , came to the Suco Uabubo . The village of Muami in the east was given to the Suco Uaguia . For this, part of the sucos Loi-Huno came to Ossu de Cima west of the Cuha River. The river remained further north, the eastern border of Ossu de Cima, now with the Suco Ossorua on the opposite bank. The border to Builale in the north and Liaruca in the west were partly redrawn. The border along the Tucos to the administrative office of Viqueque with its Suco Uai-Mori remained untouched . Before the 2015 territorial reform, Ossu de Cima had an area of ​​142.21 km². Now there are 103.19 km².

The rivers Sacaria and Metaquena originate in the south of Ossu de Cima and flow into the Cuha. Mitacaiuai and Teko flow west into the Tuco. In the northwest of Ossu de Cima lies the highest mountain in the municipality, the Monte Mundo Perdido ( 1763  m ). The region is part of an Important Bird Area .

The overland road from Venilale to Viqueque runs straight through the east of Suco Ossu de Cima. The Ossu settlement center is located on it , consisting of the towns of Cai Uai Ho O ( Caiuaihoo , Kaiwatu ), Liamida , Uma Ana Ico ( Umaanaico ), Uairio ( Uairiu ), Belas (until 1936 Hossu ), Baca-Isi ( Bacaisi ), Borala and Lugabuti . To the west of this is the village of Liawaeoli . The Sucos public facilities are located in Ossu: A primary school ( Escola Primaria Katolika Ossu de Cima ), a pre-secondary and a secondary school, as well as a helipad and a community health center.

In the Suco there are the eight Aldeias Baca-Isi , Belas , Borala , Cai Uai Ho O , Liamida , Lugabuti , Uairio and Uma Ana Ico .

Residents

School girls in Ossu

The Suco has 4,263 inhabitants (2015), of which 2,062 are men and 2201 are women. The population density is 41.3 inhabitants / km². There are 890 households in the Suco. Almost 80% of the population name Makasae as their mother tongue. Almost 11% speak Tetum Prasa , 7.5% Kairui and small minorities speak Tetum Terik or Sa'ane .

history

The old market building of Ossu

Historically, the administrative office of Ossu was divided into the kingdoms of Ossu and Ossorua , each ruled by a Liurai . This division was symbolized by two holy houses ( Oma-da'a ) on Mount Ossu Umurapa . One on the western and one on the eastern summit. The mountain is in the center of the administrative office.

In 1939, a mission with a small school was opened in Ossu. Francisco Guterres , known as Lu-Olo , former speaker of parliament and chairman of FRETILIN , the largest party in the country, was born on October 7, 1954 in Ossu. Here he also attended the St. Teresina School of the Salesians of Don Bosco between 1963 and 1969 . 1973 Guterres looked after the school for a year. The later Bishop of Dili Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo also attended the St. Teresina School.

When the Japanese occupied Timor in 1942 , the inhabitants of Ossu fled to the mountains. It is unclear who was the head of the Empire of Ossu at that time.

Dom Francisco de Sousa e Costa (Bosi-Leki) had attended the missionary school. From the mountains he took part in the Battle of Timor against the Japanese and the Timorese villages supporting Japan. Dom Joaquim da Costa Guterres also comes from Ossu de Cima , who, like Dom Francisco, fled to the mountains with his supporters, but then sided with Japan. Dom Joaquim is said to have been the village chief in 1938. The Portuguese post-war sources refer to him as chefe and Dom Francisco as the ruler (régulo) . The Tōru Maeda belonging to the Japanese propaganda unit in Ossu names Dom Joaquim, in contrast, as the Liurai of Ossu and Dom Francisco, only a nobleman. This could indicate a conflict over rule. On the other hand, in Timor, there is often, according to the principle of Lulik , a dual division of power, into a secular and a spiritual leader, which could have been present here. In their work, the Japanese relied on Dom Joaquim, whom they trusted to lead tens of thousands to their side.

Dom Joaquim returned to Ossu around the turn of the year 1942/43 and sealed the alliance with a meal with the Japanese agents. In return, he received a guarantee for the safety of his clan. His son Joaquim junior and his nephew Gaspar da Costa Guterres also collaborated.

In 1944, the Japanese propaganda unit in Ossu was replaced with a regular armed forces base and a post of the military police ( Kempeitai ) . With the help of a translator from Manado , the Kempeitai demanded that every house must assign a man for construction work. In addition, women, water buffalo and bananas were challenged. They backed up their demands with violence. Dom Joaquim and Dom Christovão, Liurai from Venilale , were tortured. Several people were executed for minor offenses. The coercive measures caused a famine in Ossu that year. When Maeda visited again, Dom Joaquim's health was badly damaged and he complained about the Kempeitai. After the Japanese surrendered, Dom Joaquim was arrested by the Portuguese colonial government. He was sentenced to life imprisonment on Atauro , where he died in 1946. Dom Francisco was rewarded for his resistance. Gaspar da Costa Guterres retained control of a small territory and became the new Liurai of Ossu in 1952. Dom Joaquim junior was evicted from the town.

At the end of 1979 there were Indonesian camps for East Timorese in Ossu and Cai Uai Ho O , who were supposed to be relocated by the occupiers for better control.

In 1983, the Indonesian governor of occupied East Timor, Mário Viegas Carrascalão, met the FALINTIL commander Xanana Gusmão for the first time for direct talks in the Lariguto valley .

politics

In the 2004/2005 elections , David Monteiro was elected Chefe de Suco. In the 2009 elections , João Guterres won .

Web links

Commons : Ossu de Cima  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Direcção-Geral de Estatística : Results of the 2015 census , accessed on November 23, 2016.
  2. ↑ Fallingrain.com: Directory of Cities, Towns, and Regions in East Timor
  3. ↑ Direcção Nacional de Estatística: Population Distribution by Administrative Areas Volume 2 English ( Memento from January 5, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (Census 2010; PDF; 22.6 MB)
  4. ^ Timor-Leste GIS-Portal ( Memento from June 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Bird life International, October 27, 2009, Endemics thrive on Timor-Leste's "Lost World" mountain
  6. ↑ List of polling stations for the parliamentary elections in East Timor 2007 (PDF file; 118 kB)
  7. ↑ UNMIT: Timor-Leste District Atlas version 02, August 2008 ( Memento from December 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 509 kB)
  8. ↑ Jornal da Républica with the Diploma Ministerial n. 199/09 ( Memento of February 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (Portuguese; PDF; 323 kB)
  9. ↑ Results of the 2010 census for the Suco Ossu de Cima ( tetum ; PDF; 8.4 MB)
  10. ↑ a b c d Kisho Tsuchiya: Indigenization of the Pacific War in Timor Island: A Multi-language Study of its Contexts and Impact , pp. 14-17, Journal War & Society, Vol. 38, no. February 1, 2018.
  11. ↑ Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo : Os antigos reinos de Timor-Leste (Reys de Lorosay e Reys de Lorotoba, Coronéis e Datos) , pp. 187–190, Tipografia Diocesana Baucau 2011.
  12. ↑ "Chapter 7.3 Forced Displacement and Famine" (PDF; 1.3 MB) from the "Chega!" Report of the CAVR (English)
  13. ↑ Diario Nacional: Morreu o ex-vice-primeiro-ministro timorense Mário Carrascalão , May 19, 2017 , accessed on May 19, 2017.
  14. ↑ Secretariado Técnico de Administração Eleitoral STAE: Eleições para Liderança Comunitária 2004/2005 - Resultados ( Memento of August 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  15. ↑ Secretariado Técnico de Administração Eleitoral STAE: Eleições para Liderança Comunitária 2009 - Resultados ( Memento of August 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive )

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