Remexio
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| Coordinates | 8 ° 37 ′ S , 125 ° 40 ′ E | ||
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| Country | East Timor | ||
| Aileu | |||
| Administrative office | Remexio | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | TL-AL | ||
| Suco | Acumau | ||
| height | 918 m | ||
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Remexio is the main town of the East Timorese administrative office Remexio in the municipality of Aileu .
geography
From Remexio in Suco Acumau , it is about 10 km to the northwest (26 km by road) as the crow flies to the state capital Dili , and about 18 km to the southwest to the municipal capital Aileu . The northern coast is only 6 km away. Remexio is still 918 m above sea level. A country road crosses Remexio from west to east and connects it with Laclo in the east and Dili in the northwest. In the west branch off from it overland roads to Lequidoe in the south and Aileu in the southwest. The villages of Fatumanaro ( Fatu Manaru ) and Aimerahun are close to Remexio . In Remexio there is a primary school, a pre-secondary school ( Escola Presecundaria Acumau ), a community health center and a helipad. The São José de Remexio church forms a building complex with the community center.
Police station
The São José de Remexio Church and its outbuildings
Village square below the church
Modern building at the crossroads
history
In 1976 Remexio was a retreat of the FALINTIL , who fought against the Indonesian invaders. Here she founded a base de apoio , a resistance base that offered refuge for refugees from Remexio, Laclo, Aileu and Dili. There was also a re-education camp ( Renal ) in Remexio , where FALINTIL suspects were detained. Due to poor care, some of the inmates died. The base was later destroyed by the Indonesians.
From 1978 to the end of 1979 there was an Indonesian camp near Remexio for East Timorese who were supposed to be relocated by the occupiers for better control. 4,000 people lived here in catastrophic conditions that journalists documented. They had visited the camp together with eleven foreign ambassadors and the then Indonesian Foreign Minister Mochtar Kusumaatmadja on September 6th and 7th, 1978. Photos of malnourished adults and children from the camp were published in newspapers around the world. Many people died of starvation and diarrhea.
partnership
There is a partnership between the Remexio administrative office and the Australian town of Kangaroo Valley ( New South Wales ).
Sons and daughters
- Domingos Carvalho de Araújo (* 1965), East Timorese politician
- Domingos da Costa (* 1962), East Timorese politician
- Maria da Paixão da Costa (* 1960), East Timorese politician
- Zacarias da Costa (* 1964), East Timorese politician
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Seeds of Life
- ↑ List of polling stations for the parliamentary elections in East Timor 2007 (PDF file; 118 kB)
- ↑ 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; 530 kB)
- ↑ a b "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; 1.3 MB) from the "Chega!" Report by CAVR (English)
The administrative borders within East Timor changed in 2015. This article must therefore be checked and updated if necessary. See New Administrative Boundaries .