Venâncio Gomes da Silva

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Venâncio Gomes da Silva († June 15, 1980 in Remexio , East Timor ), battle name Mau Seran , was an East Timorese politician and freedom activist.

Silva was one of the radical students from the Casa dos Timores . In 1974, after completing his agricultural studies, he returned to Timor and became a member of the Central Committee of FRETILIN (CCF).

In December 1975, Silva was arrested by the Indonesian invaders and taken to the Comarca prison . In 1979 he was released and lived in Dili , near the Comoro market . On June 10, 1980, FALINTIL units attacked targets in Dili. The Indonesians responded with retaliatory measures. Silva was taken from his home on June 15 by an APODETI member and taken to the Military District Command (Kodim) Dili. He was one of around 600 arrested. In the evening they flew Silva in a helicopter to Remexio, where he was shot. His body was placed on the floor and eaten by dogs.

In 2006, Silva was posthumously awarded the Ordem de Dom Boaventura .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ David Hicks: Rhetoric and the Decolonization and Recolonization of East Timor. Routledge, 2015, limited preview in Google Book Search.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ↑ Clinton Fernandes: “Populist Catholics”: Fretilin 1975 , p.263 , accessed on May 16, 2016.
  4. ↑ Jornal da República : Series I, No. 22, December 20, 2006 , accessed on May 16, 2016.
  5. ↑ "Chapter 7.2 Unlawful Killings and Enforced Disappearances" (PDF; 2.5 MB) from the "Chega!" Report of the CAVR (English)
  6. ↑ Tapol Bulletin No. 59: Amnesty exposes Indonesian brutalities in Erist Timor , September 1983 , accessed June 4, 2018.
  7. ↑ Jornaä da República: Decreto do Presidente da República Número 54 / 2006de 17 de Novembro de 2006 , accessed on June 4, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Silva, Venâncio Gomes there
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mau Seran (battle name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION East Timorese independence activist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Remexio , East Timor
DATE OF DEATH June 15, 1980
Place of death Remexio , East Timor