Turiscai

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Turiscai
Turiscai
Coordinates	8 ° 49 ′  S , 125 ° 42 ′  E Coordinates: 8 ° 49 ′  S , 125 ° 42 ′  E
Basic data
Country	East Timor
local community	Manufahi
Administrative office	Turiscai
Suco	Manumera
height	1431 m
Residents	11,258 (2010)

Turiscai ( Toriscai , Turiscae , Turiskai ) is the capital of the East Timorese administrative office Turiscai in the municipality of Manufahi . “Turiskai” means “trunk of the turi tree ” in Mambai .

geography

Turiscai is located in the interior of the island, as the crow flies 21 km southeast of the state capital Dili and 31 km northeast of Same at an altitude of 1431  m . The place belongs to the Suco Manumera .

In Turiscai there is a primary school ( Escola Primaria Manumera / Maulahulu ), a pre-secondary school, a helipad and a community health center.

history

See also : History of East Timor

Turiscai was one of the traditional kingdoms of Timor ruled by a liurai . It appears on a list by Afonso de Castro , a former governor of Portuguese Timor who listed 47 empires in 1868.

During the Japanese occupation of Timor , there was an uprising against the Portuguese in Turiscai in July 1942, which is attributed to Japanese influence. The administrative post was looted. The rebellion was put down by 700 Moradores from Laclo , Laleia and Laclubar .

In 1975 the Indonesians invaded East Timor. The resistance of FRETILIN and its military arm, the FALINTIL , formed in the mountains, including in Turiscai. In March 1976 Indonesian troops invaded Turiscai. In 1977 , the President of the Republic, Francisco Xavier do Amaral , appointed by FRETILIN, attempted to negotiate a troop reduction and a ceasefire at the local level. He wanted to protect his homeland Turiscai from atrocities by the Indonesian army. The FRETILIN Central Committee therefore accused him of high treason and deposed him on September 14, 1977.

At the end of 1979 there was an Indonesian camp for East Timorese near Turiscai, who were to be relocated by the occupiers for better control. The former residents of the resistance base ( base de apoio ) of the Centro Sul sector were also interned here. They came from Turiscai, Fatuberlio , Maubisse and Dili . Compared to the last census in the Portuguese colonial period in 1970, the population in Turiscai fell from 5,981 to 2,890 by 51.7%.

After an attack by FALINTIL fighters on the sub-district headquarters of Alas of the Indonesian army on November 9, 1998, the Indonesians responded with a retaliation against civilians in the area and burned the houses of those they believed to be independence supporters, including in Suco Manumera .

Sons and daughters

• Francisco Xavier do Amaral (1937–2012), East Timor's first president , was born in Turiscai in 1937 as the son of Liurais.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Geoffrey Hull : The placenames of East Timor , in: Placenames Australia (ANPS): Newsletter of the Australian National Placenames Survey, June 2006, pp. 6 & 7, ( Memento of the original from February 14, 2017 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. accessed on September 28, 2014. 
2. ↑ 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; 523 kB) 
3. ↑ 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. 
4. ↑ East Timor - PORTUGUESE DEPENDENCY OF EAST TIMOR ( Memento of February 21, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ Kisho Tsuchiya: Indigenization of the Pacific War in Timor Island: A Multi-language Study of its Contexts and Impact , pp. 10 & 12, Journal War & Society, Vol. 38, No. February 1, 2018.
6. ↑ Monika Schlicher: East Timor faces up to its past ( Memento of the original from November 7, 2017 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. , missio 2005, ISSN 1618-6222 (PDF; 304 kB)  
7. ↑ ^{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)