Tomás Gonçalves

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Tomás Aquino Gonçalves (* 1944 ) is a former East Timorese - Indonesian administrator and militiaman.

Career

Gonçalves was a member of the Kemak ethnic group . He was the son of Guilherme Gonçalves , the last coronel messenger ( Tetum : Liurai , Timorese ruler) of Atsabe and in 1974 co-founder of the APODETI party . At the end of the colonial period, the party sought to join Portuguese Timor in Indonesia. As of August 1974, 216 APODETI fighters were trained and equipped to become partisans by the Indonesian armed forces in the Indonesian border town of Atambua . Tomás Gonçalves became leader of the fighters and representative of APODETI in the Indonesian West Timor . In September he met the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, General Maraden Panggabean, in Jakarta . During the civil war in East Timor and as part of Operation Flamboyan , the APODETI fighters were deployed in East Timor in advance of the actual Indonesian invasion at the end of the year.

After the annexation of East Timor, which is not recognized internationally, Tomás Gonçalves was government president (Bupati) of his home district Ermera from May 1976 to 1984 and in 1998 head of the 400-strong militia Railakan , which the Indonesian armed forces fight against the FALINTIL , the guerrilla of the independence movement. When it was announced in March 1999 at a conference with the Indonesian military and Governor José Abílio Osório Soares that independence activists, their families and Catholic clergy would be murdered as part of Operation Donner , Gonçalves said he was against it. He then had to flee to Macau in April 1999 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b "Part 4: Regime of Occupation" (PDF; 563 kB) from the "Chega!" Report of the CAVR (English)
  2. ↑ a b 'Operasi Sapu Jagad' - plano dos militares indonésios contra a independência. ( Memento from October 9, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ "Part 3: The History of the Conflict" (PDF; 1.4 MB) from the "Chega!" Report of the CAVR (English)
  4. ↑ Richard Tanter, Desmond Ball, Van Gerry Klinken: Masters of Terror: Indonesia's Military and Violence in East Timor , Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2006, limited preview in Google book search
  5. ↑ ETAN: Indonesia court acquits military officer on Timor rights charges (AFP) , accessed October 9, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Gonçalves, Tomás
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gonçalves, Tomás Aquino (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION East Timorese-Indonesian administrator and militiaman
DATE OF BIRTH 1944