Santa Cruz (cemetery)

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The Santa Cruz Cemetery

The Santa Cruz Cemetery is located in Suco Bemori on Av. Audian , southeast of the center of the East Timorese capital Dili .

The path to the small chapel in the western part of the cemetery is paved with small, white and black stones in the Portuguese style. The stones and craftsmen who paved the way came from Portugal. They built in leftover material that was originally intended for the independence monument.

history

The cemetery chapel
The grave of Sebastião Gomes

Oral tradition says that Boaventura , the leader of the Manufahi rebellion (1911–1912) is buried at the gate of the cemetery. There is also the grave of Francisco Duarte , a colonial officer who fell in 1899, the last ruler of the Atsabe - Kemak Guilherme Gonçalves and the French circumnavigator and writer Alain Gerbault .

On November 12, 1991, after the funeral of Sebastião Gomes, the Santa Cruz massacre (also known as the Dili massacre ) began in the cemetery of the same name . At least 271 people died and 382 were injured in the attack on demonstrators and the violence that followed immediately by the Indonesian military . 270 people disappeared without a trace. The Santa Cruz massacre was a decisive turning point in the history of East Timor and brought more international attention to the 15-year occupation of the country by Indonesia .

Web links

Commons : Santa Cruz Cemetery  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ City map of Dili ( Memento from June 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 1.3 MB)
  2. ↑ Monika Schlicher: Portugal in East Timor. A critical study of the Portuguese colonial history in East Timor 1850 to 1912 , p. 269, Abera, Hamburg 1996, ISBN 3-931567-08-7 , (Abera Network Asia-Pacific 4), (also: Heidelberg, Univ., Diss., 1994).
  3. ↑ The case of Alferes Francisco Duarte “O Arbiru” (1862 - 1899) (PDF; 386 kB), accessed on March 25, 2013
  4. ↑ David Hicks: Rhetoric and the Decolonization and Recolonization of East Timor , 2014, ISBN 9781317695349 .

Coordinates: 8 ° 33 ′ 47.6 ″  S , 125 ° 35 ′ 10.1 ″  E