Manuel Carrascalão

Manuel Viegas Carrascalão (born December 16, 1933 - July 11, 2009) was an Indonesian parliamentarian and prominent East Timorese independence leader. The Carrascalão family is of mestiço ancestry;^[1][2] Carrascalao was born on Atauro Island.

Twelve of the members killed during the massacre were exhumed by the UNTAET Crime Scene Detachment in early 2000, in Maubara. Along with the Liquica Church Massacre, the attack at Manuel Carrascalão's house was of the "ten priority investigations" of the Serious Crimes Unit. During the attack at his residence in Lecidere, Dili, on the 17th of April 1999, his son Manelito Carrascalão, age 17, and hundred other refugees including women and children were tortured and killed. The trial was heard by the Second Special Panel, composed of Judge Benfeito Mosso Ramos (Cape Verde) presiding, Judge Antero Luis (Portugal) and Judge Antonio Helder (East Timor).

Carrascalao died aged 75 in Dili of a cerebral embolism.

See also

• Manuel Carrascalão House Massacre

References

1. ^ Subject: Asiamoney: Keeping up with the Carrascalaos
2. ^ Can East Timor Survive Independence?

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Name	Carrascalao, Manuel Viegas
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Date of birth	December 16, 1933
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Date of death	July 11, 2009
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