Rosa Bonaparte

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Rosa Bonaparte Soares (battle name: Muki ; * in Manatuto , Portuguese Timor ; † December 8, 1975 in Dili , East Timor ) was an East Timorese suffragette and independence activist. She was referred to as the "petite revolutionary" or " Rosa Luxemburg East Timors".

Career

Bonaparte graduated from the Canossian School in Ossu and then received a scholarship to study in Lisbon , where she traveled with her friend Noémia Cruz (sister of Dulce Maria da Cruz ). There she joined the Maoist party Movimento Reorganizativo do Partido do Proletariado (MRPP) and after the Carnation Revolution took part in meetings at Casa dos Timores , where Timorese students met and discussed politics and anti-colonialism, often visited by representatives from Portuguese African colonies , like Angola and Mozambique .

In January 1975 she returned to East Timor from her studies in Portugal and became a member of the central committee of the left-wing FRETILIN party , to which her brother Bernardino Bonaparte Soares (Goinxet) also belonged.

Rosa Bonaparte was seen as a person full of ideas, partly because of her work in the decolonization commission in the colonial capital Dili on May 7, 1975. She wrote a manifesto on “the direct involvement of women in the fight against colonialism and the elimination of all forms of violence against Women. ”On August 28, 1975, Bonaparte was appointed General Secretary of the Organização Popular de Mulheres Timorense (OPMT), the women's organization of FRETILIN.

On November 28, 1975 FRETILIN unilaterally proclaimed the independence of East Timor from the colonial power Portugal. Bonaparte is said to have unfurled the new flag of East Timor . On December 7th, Indonesian troops landed in Dili ( Operation Seroja ) and occupied the country. Bonaparte was last seen alive on December 8th at the Dili shipyard, where the Indonesians executed numerous people and threw the dead into the water. Rosa's brother Bernardino was one of those executed.

Commemoration

A small park in Dili is named after Rosa Muki Bonaparte.

See also

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Jill Jolliffe :: Run for your life. limited preview in Google Book search
  2. ↑ a b David Hutt: East Timor's “Red Rosa” , In: New Matilda, October 1, 2017 , accessed November 5, 2017.
  3. ↑ a b c Green Left Weekly: The plight of women in East Timor , January 29, 1997 , accessed December 19, 2016.
  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. ↑ a b c David Hicks: Rhetoric and the Decolonization and Recolonization of East Timor , 2014 , accessed December 19, 2016.
  6. ↑ Clinton Fernandes: “Populist Catholics”: Fretilin 1975 , accessed December 19, 2016.
  7. ^ Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies: course on: Women, Peace and Leadership , August 30, 2012 , Universidade Nasionál Timór Lorosa'e , accessed December 19, 2016.
  8. ↑ a b ABC: Australia received East Timor 'hit list' before Indonesian invasion , November 27, 2015 , accessed December 19, 2016.
  9. ↑ CHAPTER 1: AIMS, STRUCTURE AND METHODS , pp. 148 & 150 , accessed on May 12, 2020.
  10. ↑ Photo of the Jardim Rosa "Muki" Bonaparte.
personal data
SURNAME Bonaparte, Rosa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Muki (battle name); Bonaparte Soares, Rosa (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION East Timorese women's rights activist and independence activist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Manatuto , Portuguese Timor
DATE OF DEATH 8th December 1975
Place of death Dili , East Timor