Quelicai
| Quelicai | |||
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| Coordinates | 8 ° 36 ′ S , 126 ° 34 ′ E | ||
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| Country | East Timor | ||
| Baucau | |||
| Administrative office | Quelicai | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | TL-BA | ||
| Suco | Lacoliu , Baguia and Letemumo | ||
| height | 713 m | ||
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Quelicai ( Kelikai ) is the main town of the Quelicai administrative office in the East Timorese municipality of Baucau .
In 1936, Quelicai was renamed Boa Vista by the Portuguese . But the name did not catch on and a few years after the Second World War , the old name was reverted to.
geography
The place is located in the southeast of the municipality, on the border between the Sucos Baguia and Letemumo , at an altitude of 713 m . In the south the place extends into the Suco Lacoliu , where the administrative seat of the administrative office is also located. The municipal capital Baucau is 18 km to the northwest as the crow flies and the state capital Dili is about 107 km to the west. There is a regional market twice a week on site. The church Igrja da Sta. Teresinha . The white and pink facade consists of two tall triangles. There is also a helipad, community health center, elementary school and pre-secondary school here.
history
In the 1930s a school building was built in Quelicai by district administrator Armando Eduardo Pinto Correia .
At the end of 1979 there was an Indonesian camp for East Timorese in the city of Quelicai , who should be relocated by the occupiers for better control. Between 1979 and 1981 205 families from Quelicai, Quelicai in Afaçá , Afaçá , Guruça , Abafala , Uaitame and Bualale were forcibly resettled by the Indonesians via the camp to a new settlement called Mulia in Laga. It was feared that the villages that were close to the forests could support the FALINTIL. The old houses were burned down after the evacuation, fields were destroyed and the cattle were killed. Several residents were injured. The inhabitants were brought to Mulia on trucks under heavy guard.
In the 1980s, Quelicai was bombed and combed several times by the Indonesian army while fighting the FALINTIL, resulting in deaths among the residents. On May 31, 1997, an Indonesian security transport was ambushed in Quelicai. Men in Indonesian military uniform stopped the truck with 28 police officers and soldiers. When the truck stopped, a hand grenade was thrown on the loading area. A barrel of fuel that was there exploded. 18 Indonesians were killed. 114 residents were arrested in the Indonesian military action that followed. Quelicai got off relatively lightly during the acts of violence surrounding the 1999 independence referendum . Pro-Indonesian militiamen only burned a few houses.
In 2001 riots in the village resulted in deaths.
After Xanana Gusmão was commissioned to form a government on August 8, 2007 as a result of the 2007 parliamentary elections , disappointed FRETILIN supporters also rioted in Quelicai. 520 people fled their homes and gathered on Mount Matebian .
economy
A phosphate deposit was found near Quelicai .
Sons and daughters
- Benvinda Catarina Rodrigues (* 1968), politician
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Geoffrey Hull : The placenames of East Timor , in: Placenames Australia (ANPS): Newsletter of the Australian National Placenames Survey, June 2006, pp. 6 & 7, ( Memento of the original from February 14, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on September 28, 2014.
- ^ João Soares: Novo Atlas Escolar Português , 5th updated edition, Lisboa 1954
- ↑ UNMIT: Timor-Leste District Atlas version 02, August 2008 ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 488 kB)
- ↑ Heritage of Portuguese Influence Portal: The Pinto Correia Schools , August 9, 2012 , accessed August 21, 2015.
- ↑ a b Internal Displacement Monitoring Center ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 464 kB)
- ↑ "Chapter 7.3 Forced Displacement and Famine" ( Memento of the original from November 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.2 MB) from the "Chega!" Report by CAVR (English)
- ↑ (INDONESIA-L) HRW / ASIA - East Timor Guerrilla Attacks: East Timor Guerrilla Attacks of June 4, 1997 ( Memento of September 19, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Fundasaun Mahein: Victims of Independence , accessed on May 26, 2012
- ↑ Ministry of State Administration & Territorial Management, Timor-Leste: Baucau District profile ( Memento of the original from March 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 269 kB)
