Francisco Borja da Costa

Francisco Borja da Costa ( born October 14, 1946 in Fatu - Belak, district Manatuto, Portuguese Timor, † December 7, 1975 in Dili, East Timor ) was an East Timorese journalist, freedom fighter and poet and wrote both the national anthem of the country Patria, as the party anthem of the FRETILIN " Foho Ramelau ".

Until the fourth class of the son of a Liurai went into Soibada to school, then moved to Dili, where he worked as a civil servant after graduation in 1967. From 1968 to 1971 Costa completed his military service and then returned in the public sector. In 1973 he was for a time in Lisbon. After his return to Dili Costa worked actively in the Timorese national movement. On April 25, 1974, he was one of the founders of the Party Associação Social Democrática Timorense ( ASDT ), which was renamed shortly thereafter in FRETILIN. Costa is best known for his poetry and speeches in the local language Tetum. He worked as a journalist for the A Voz de Timor ( Timor 's voice ), the first newspaper of East Timor.

Costa died outside his home in Dili district Bairo dos Grilos, on the first day of the Indonesian invasion that followed the declaration of independence of East Timor. His name was on a death list of the Indonesian military. Costas body was buried on the beach of Lecidere in Dili with other FRETILIN members, where he was later found.

1986 in honor of the Costas Borja da Costa was Austronesian Fondation ( FABC ) founded in Lisbon, the cultural heritage of East Timor, particularly the Tetum, the colonization history, religion and the sociology of Timorese society dedicated to.

His brother Luis Borja da Costa created the first Tetum Dictionary and Phrasebook the first Tetum - Portuguese.

• East Timorese
• Author
• Born in 1946
• Died in 1975
• Man