Aliança de Araújo

Aliança da Conceição de Araújo (born 1952) is an East Timorese politician, and party leader of the Partido Timorense Democrático (Timorese Democratic Party) (PTD).[1]

Aliança Araújo

Araújo's husband Augusto Pereira was a senior police officer in the Indonesian police in occupied East Timor, and also a member of the resistance.[2] In 1992 she hid the FALINTIL leader Xanana Gusmão from the occupiers in a bunker beneath her house in Dili.[2] When Gusmão was discovered and arrested on 20 November 1992, the entire Araujo family was sent to prison.[3] Aliança was tortured.[2] She took over the sole responsibility for hiding the resistance fighters and thus relieved her husband.

Araújo sat for the Partido Nasionalista Timorense (Timorese Nationalist Party) (PNT) in the National Consultative Council, during the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor, and in the National Parliament of East Timor between 2001 and 2007.[4][5] Her brother Abílio de Araújo[2] is the head of PNT, and Aliança was vice-president of the party. Abílio and another brother, Afonso Redentor Araújo, who was captured and executed by the Indonesians in 1979, were co-composers of Pátria, the national anthem of East Timor.[6]

In 2008, Aliança de Araújo founded the PTD.[7]

References
  1. Lansford, Tom (2019). "Timor-Leste (East Timor)". Political Handbook of the World 2018-2019. CQ Press. p. 1587. ISBN 9781544327136.
  2. Weldemichael, Awet Tewelde (2013). Third World Colonialism and Strategies of Liberation: Eritrea and East Timor Compared. Cambridge University Press. p. 204. ISBN 9781107031234. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
  3. Timor-Leste Political Imprisonment. Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation in Timor-Leste. 2005. p. 71. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
  4. "REUNIÃO PLENÁRIA DE 11 DE DEZEMBRO DE 2001" (PDF). JORNAL do Parlamento Nacional ASSEMBLEIA CONSTITUINTE (2001-2002): 2. 11 December 2001. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
  5. "LISTA ALFABÉTICA DOS DEPUTADOS". PARLAMENTO NACIONAL REPÚBLICA DEMOCRÁTICA DE TIMOR-LESTE. 2007. Archived from the original on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
  6. Siapno, Jacqueline Aquino (September 2013). "'A society with music is a society with hope': musicians as survivor-visionaries in post-war Timor Leste". South East Asia Research. 21 (3): 448. doi:10.5367/sear.2013.0167. JSTOR 23752661. S2CID 143717930.
  7. Governance of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste - Accountability Mechanism of Key Institutions (PDF) (2nd ed.). DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE SUPPORT UNIT, UNITED NATIONS INTEGRATED MISSION IN TIMOR-LESTE. December 2011. p. 251. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 February 2015. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
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