Suai
| Suai | |||
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| Coordinates | 9 ° 19 ′ S , 125 ° 15 ′ E | ||
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| Country | East Timor | ||
| Cova Lima | |||
| Administrative office | Suai | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | TL-CO | ||
| Suco | Debos | ||
| height | 13 m | ||
| Residents | 8243 (2010) | ||
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Suai is the capital of the East Timorese municipality of Cova Lima . The name is derived from the Tetum words "su rai henek", su for "dig", rai for "earth" or "land", henek for "gravel". "Rai henek" means "sand". Sand was extracted to build houses. For the sake of simplicity, people just said "Su Rai" which later became "Suai".
geography
The city consists of a collection of several districts that form a closed settlement in the Suco Debos ( Suai administrative office ). Debos is classified as " urban ". They include Ahinarai ( Ahi Na Rai ), Bonuc, and Orun . The center is located a little inland from the Timor Sea , at an altitude of 13 m , about 80 km as the crow flies southwest of the state capital Dili . On the relatively well-developed road that ends in Suai, it is 138 km via Aileu and Ainaro to Dili. The Suai Settlement Center has two pre-schools, two primary schools (including Escola Primaria Catolica Ave Maria Suai ), two preparatory schools for secondary education, a secondary school, a developed helipad, a hospital, a community health center and a police station.
Next to the old church Nossa Senhora do Rosario , where the church massacre of Suai took place, the shell of an impressive, new church building, which had already been started during the occupation, stood for years. In 2012 the new Ave Maria church was completed and consecrated on August 15th. Suai Airport is located in Suco Labarai . It was expanded in 2017 and on June 19 the FALINTIL Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão reopened as Airport Comandante - em Chefe Estado . On the coast of Suai Loro lie the ruins of a Portuguese fort. On Saturdays there is a weekly market in Suai.
Residents
In 2010, Suai had 8,243 residents. In 2015, only the inhabitants of the whole of Sucos Debos were recorded, which lost a lot in size with the regional reform. According to the census at that time, Debos still had 11,336 inhabitants.
history
Suai used to be an empire ruled by a Liurai . According to oral tradition, both were subordinate to the Liurai of Fohorem in the alliance of Cova Lima and had to pay tribute. Another source indicates that Suai did not belong to Koba Lima , but formed an independent, powerful empire. The source incorrectly names Suai as the center of Wehale , which was further to the west.
In 1522 a member of the Magellan Expedition , Antonio Pigafetta , reported that there were four main kings of Timor who were brothers: Oibich, Lichisana, Suai and Canabaza . Suai probably formed a double empire with Camenaça (Canabaza), which Wehale (here called Oibich by Pigafetta ) owed tribute. Suai also appears on a list by Afonso de Castro , a former governor of Portuguese Timor who listed 47 empires in 1868.
During their expansion of power to the south coast of Timor in the early 1670s, the Portuguese devastated Suai, among others.
During the War of Manufahi in 1895 the Liurai of Suai allied themselves with Dom Duarte , the Liurai of Manufahi against the Portuguese colonial rulers. In 1900 Manufahi capitulated. Suai had been defeated before.
In October 1911 the Manufahi rebellion broke out . The Portuguese military post in Suai was evacuated on December 8, 1911 for fear of the insurgents. The rebellion quickly spread throughout the region and was not finally put down until April 1912.
In 1961, Suai became the capital of the newly established Cova Lima County. With its plane, Suai offered aircraft the opportunity to land, and it also had access to the sea and was therefore accessible to ships.
To avoid the attacks by the Indonesian army in 1976, the residents of Suai either fled to Maucatar or hid in their plantings for a few days before surrendering to the invaders. The Serious Crimes Unit of UNTAET reported that so-called in Suai during the Indonesian occupation Rape Houses existed.
In the run-up to the referendum on the future of East Timor , on August 20, 1999, a pro-Indonesian militia attacked a pro- independence event in Suai . After the voters had voted for independence in a referendum, the Indonesian Operation Donner erupted nationwide. One of the worst incidents was the Suai church massacre on September 6, 1999. Up to 200 people are believed to have died.
In June 2013, flooding occurred in Suai and Camenaça, killing three.
Town twinning
Daughters and sons
Basílio do Nascimento was born in Suai in 1950 and has been the first bishop of the Baucau diocese since 1996 .
- Cristovão Barros (* 1972), politician
Web links
- ETAN : Background on September 6, 1999 Suai Massacre
- Human Rights Watch: Indonesia: Justice Denied in East Timor Church Massacre ( July 8, 2008 memento on the Internet Archive )
- Friends of Suai - Port Phillip partnership website.
- Suai Media Space - Port Phillip - Suai Partnership Reports
- CAVR : The Church Massacre in Suai (English; PDF; 35 kB)
- Suai Supply Base . To the planned infrastructure project in Suai
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Suai Media Space: Koba Lima - Suai
- ^ Seeds of Life
- ↑ Fallingrain.com: Directory of Cities, Towns, and Regions in East Timor
- ↑ List of polling stations for the parliamentary elections in East Timor 2007 (PDF; 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; 449 kB)
- ↑ Satellite images
- ↑ ANTIL (Tatoli): Aeroportu Suai Sarani ho Naran Xanana Gusmão , June 20, 2017 , accessed June 20, 2017th
- ↑ a b c d Cova Lima District Development Plan 2002/2003 ( Memento of the original from October 14, 2013 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. (English; PDF; 2.24 MB)
- ↑ Direcção Nacional de Estatística: Preliminary Result of Census 2010 English ( Memento of the original from September 6, 2014 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; 3.2 MB)
- ↑ Direcção-Geral de Estatística : Results of the 2015 census , accessed on November 23, 2016.
- ↑ TIMOR LORO SAE, Um pouco de história ( Memento of the original dated November 13, 2001 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.
- ↑ East Timor - PORTUGUESE DEPENDENCY OF EAST TIMOR ( Memento of February 21, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Susana Barnes, Hans Hägerdal, Lisa Palmer: An East Timorese Domain - Luca from Central and Peripheral Perspectives , p. 336, 2017, DOI: 10.1163 / 22134379-17302020 , accessed on November 22, 2017.
- ↑ a b History of Timor - Technical University of Lisbon ( Memento of the original from March 24, 2009 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; 824 kB)
- ↑ "Chapter 7.3 Forced Displacement and Famine" (PDF; 1.3 MB) from the "Chega!" Report of the CAVR (English)
- ↑ EAST TIMOR: State Violations of East Timorese Human Rights Prevail ( Memento from August 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Masters of Terror: Suai church massacre
- ↑ Independente: Flood in Suai, killing three local residents , June 24, 2013
- ^ Ministry of Foreign Affairs of East Timor ( Memento from May 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
The administrative borders within East Timor changed in 2015. This article must therefore be checked and updated if necessary. See New Administrative Boundaries .