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]
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]
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]
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]