Turiscai
Turiscai is a village in the Turiscai administrative post, Manufahi municipality of East Timor. Turiskai in Mambai language means "Turibaum".[1]
History
During the Indonesian occupation of East Timor, on 22 February Indonesian soldiers committed what is now known as the Foholau, Turiscai or Saibailolo Gorge massacre, the soldiers rounded up around 30 civilian detainees in Turiscai, separating the men, women and children. They took 13 of the 15 male detainees nearby to a cliff of the Saibailolo Gorge and opened fire on them, only one of them survived. The next day they executed the last two men who were brothers and one of them having been a former village chief in nearby Hulala.[2]
References
- ^ "Newsletter of the Australian National Placenames Survey" (PDF). Placenames Australia. June 2006. pp. 6–7. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 February 2017. Retrieved 24 April 2017.
- ^ "7.2 Unlawful Killings and Enforced Disappearances" (PDF). 3 December 2005. Retrieved 17 October 2024.