Vila de Liquiçá
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| Coordinates | 8 ° 36 ′ S , 125 ° 20 ′ E | ||
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| Country | East Timor | ||
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| ISO 3166-2 | TL-LI | ||
| height | 28 m | ||
| Residents | 5152 (2010) | ||
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Vila de Liquiçá ( Liquiçá ) is the capital of the East Timorese municipality Liquiçá and the administrative office of Liquiçá . It has 5,152 inhabitants (2010).
geography
Liquiçá is located on the coast of the Strait of Ombai , an extension of the Sawu Sea , at an altitude of 87 m . It is located 32 km west of the state capital Dili . The center of the city, with the administrative seat of the municipal administrator and the Catholic Church, is located in Suco Dato (Liquiçá administrative office), between the mouths of the Laklo and Gularkoo rivers . The districts of Dato , Leopa and Camalelara are located here . Beyond the Gularkoos, the city extends in the area of the Sucos Maumeta (administrative office Bazartete ) to the Carbutaeloa river . Pissu Lete in Suco Lauhata , on the east bank of the Carbutaeloa, can still be viewed as a suburb of Liquiçás, as well as west of the Laklos Kalapa and Camalehohoru (Suco Dato). Dato and the southern Suco Loidahar are defined as "urban" in the official East Timor statistics.
Most of the year the climate in Liquiçá is hot with high humidity, but little rainfall. Rain falls only in the rainy season between November and April. The rivers only carry water during this time, but then they carry rock and earth with them. The maximum temperature is 32.5 ° C in November, the lowest temperature in July 22.4 ° C.
history
Liquiçá was one of the traditional empires 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. According to European sources, it ruled east Timor together with Luca in the 16th century . Here Liquiçá is referred to as Likusaen . The name is derived from the old name "Liku Saen" , which means " Python ". In 1886, the island of Alor , which belongs to the Netherlands, paid tribute in the form of rice, corn, cotton and other things.
During the rebellions in Portuguese Timor between 1860 and 1912 , the Liurai of Liquiçá was a loyal ally of the Portuguese colonial rulers, who several times made troops available to put down the rebellions. In 1889 the Portuguese post in Liquiçá was renewed.
In the Second World War was Portuguese Timor occupied by the Japanese ( see Battle of Timor ). In Liquiçá and Maubara , the entire remaining Portuguese population was interned in camps from the end of October 1942. The conditions in the camp were poor, food was scarce and the hygienic conditions inadequate due to a lack of water. Many Portuguese died because of it. Although there was a Portuguese doctor who was later assigned two Japanese doctors, there was a lack of medicine. During the first year Japanese soldiers guarded the camp, later Japanese Kempeitai , along with Timorese guards and spies.
During the Indonesian invasion , Indonesian troops attacked Liquiça in June 1976 . At the end of 1979 there was a so-called transit camp in Vila de Liquiçá , in which the occupiers interned East Timorese civilians. In 1999 Liquiçá was the scene of two particularly serious crimes during the riots at the time of the independence referendum .
The then Liquiçá district was a center of the wave of violence before and after the independence referendum and the scene of intimidation, rape and murder by pro-Indonesian militias . On April 5, the Vila de Liquiçá was attacked by the Besi Merah Putih (BMP) militia . At least seven people died, 150 houses were burned down, and more than a thousand people sought protection in the main church and the adjoining parish hall, where they were surrounded the next day by the militias Besi Merah Putih and Aitarak with the participation of Indonesian police and soldiers. In the following church massacre in Liquiçá , between 61 and 200 people died, depending on the source. Later the inhabitants of Luculai, Loidahar and Darulete were forcibly deported to Vila de Liquiçá. Here they were forced to use intimidation and abuse to support the autonomy solution in the referendum, which provided for East Timor to remain with Indonesia. If they did not flee, men were forcibly recruited into the militia. In addition, people had to raise the flag of Indonesia and set up guard posts. Girls and young women had to dance at militia celebrations. About 150 people fled to Dili, where they sought refuge in the house of the politician Manuel Carrascalão , who was attacked by the militia itself on April 17th ( see: Massacre in the house of Manuel Carrascalão ). On July 4, 1999, the pro-Indonesian militia Besi Merah Putih (BMP) attacked an aid convoy in Liquiçá, which was accompanied by UNAMET and UNHCR employees . Of the 77 people in the convoy, several local employees were seriously injured and the vehicles were destroyed with bars and stones. 62 members of the convoy escaped to the police station. Later they could return to Dili. Indonesian police officers and members of the secret service who were present did not intervene. On the contrary. One week after the incident, the Indonesian police began an investigation into a UN worker for alleged possession of weapons. On July 18, the BMP attacked Vila de Liquiçá, whereupon people again fled to the mountains. During the riots by the militias, most of the buildings in Vila de Liquiçá were destroyed, only a few buildings from Portuguese and Indonesian times remain. On October 13, an Australian infantry company was stationed in the deserted city to restore order . Only gradually did the residents return.
On January 1 and 2, 2008, severe flooding occurred here and in the Sucos Maumeta, Dato and neighboring Luculai . People were not injured, but 300 families lost their roofs. At the end of January 2012, heavy rains destroyed the school and 18 houses.
politics
There is no city administration for the entire settlement. Each administrative office has its own administrator, the Chefe de Suco and the Suco councils are elected by the residents of the individual sucos . The administrator of the municipality of Liquiçá stands above it
Public facilities
The city has a total of one pre-school, five primary schools, two pre-secondary schools and two secondary schools. There is also a community health center, police station and helipad here.
The former seat of the Portuguese administrator of Liquiçá, the seat of the current municipality administrator, the Catholic and Presbyterian Churches are in Dato. On December 23, 2018, a Chinese temple was opened in Liquiçá. There was one in the city as early as the Portuguese colonial times.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of East Timor ( Memento from May 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ 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)
- ^ Seeds of Life
- ↑ Map of the Ministry of State Administration, 2015.
- ^ Timor-Leste GIS-Portal ( Memento from June 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Ministry of Finance of East Timor: Liquiça Suco Reports
- ↑ Liquiçá District Development Plan 2002/2003 ( Memento of the original dated April 8, 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. (English; PDF; 376 kB)
- ↑ 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 )
- ↑ Suai Media Space: Koba Lima - Suai
- ↑ 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)
- ↑ "Part 3: The History of the Conflict" (PDF; 1.4 MB) from the "Chega!" Report of the CAVR (English)
- ↑ a b c d e "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)
- ↑ ETAN : July 4 Militia Attack on the Humanitarian Team in Liquiça: Another Slap in the Face to the UN (Summer 1999) ISSN 1088-8136
- ↑ Relief Web, January 7, 2008, Timor-Leste: Humanitarian update, Dec 21 - Jan 7, 2008
