Reduto do Conselheiro Jacinto Cândido
The Fort Conselheiro Jacinto Cândido ( Portuguese Reduto do Conselheiro Jacinto Cândido ) is a small fortress on the eastern edge of the East Timorese town of Batugade ( Balibo administrative office , Bobonaro municipality ).
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In 1655 the Portuguese built the first fort in Batugade, the territory of which was part of the Cowa Empire. Just a few kilometers further, the larger fortress of Balibo was built during the same period .
During the Cailaco Rebellion in 1726, a Portuguese force was sent from here to take the rebel center of Cailaco together with troops from Dili , but the siege was unsuccessful. In the course of the rebellion, the fort was abandoned. Governor Pedro de Rego Barreto da Gama e Castro had the post occupied again in 1731 and made peace with the local rebel chief Dom Lourenço da Costa . In 1734 Batugade rebelled again against the Portuguese, but they could fall back on reinforcements from Goa . When the Portuguese gave up Lifau in 1769 and moved the capital of the colony to Dili, they made a stopover in Batugade and reinforced the fort to ward off the rebellious Topasse in the west. The fort at that time was rectangular with a small bulwark and equipped with some cannons that were already out of date in the second half of the 19th century. They stood on wooden frames in the corners of the fort. Among other things, Timorese soldiers were stationed in the fort in the Portuguese service ( Moradores ).
In 1868 the Batugade Fort became the base of the military expedition against the rebellious Cowa Empire . While the allied Balibo surrendered in 1871, Cowa did not finally submit to Portuguese rule until 1881. During the War of Manufahi (1894-1896) insurgents from Fatumean occupied the fort in 1896 , while the troops actually stationed there fought elsewhere. That same year, the fort was rebuilt on the orders of Governor José Celestino da Silva . It now consisted of an outer wall that enclosed a trapezoidal room with several buildings. The wall could be defended from the corners. At the same time, the fort was named after the Portuguese overseas minister Jacinto Cândido .
In the 1930s, the fort was a notorious prison for exiles from the Portuguese dictatorship that was known as "The Cemetery of the Living".
Today the fort is a base of the East Timorese immigration authorities. The border with Indonesia and the Mota'ain border crossing is not far away.
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- ^ Colonial Voyage: Asia. Portuguese Colonial Remains 16th – 18th centuries , accessed January 6, 2015.
- ↑ Artur Teodoro de Matos: Tradição e inovação na administração das ilhas de Solor e Timor: 1650–1750 ( Memento of June 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b History of Timor - Technical University of Lisbon, pp. 88 & 89 ( Memento of the original of March 24, 2009 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; 824 kB)
- ↑ Chronologie de l'histoire du Timor (1512–1945) suivie des événements récents (1975–1999) (French; PDF; 887 kB)
- ↑ Monika Schlicher: Portugal in East Timor. A critical examination of the Portuguese colonial history in East Timor from 1850 to 1912. Aberag, Hamburg 1996. ISBN 3-934376-08-8
- ^ Plan of the fortress from 1897
- ↑ Tina Modotti on the Batugade prison (German)
Coordinates: 8 ° 56 ′ 47.1 ″ S , 124 ° 58 ′ 21.4 ″ E