Mauk Moruk, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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East Timorese politician
Date of Birth: 22-Jun-1955
Place of Birth: Laga, East Timor, East Timor
Date of Death: 08-Aug-2015
Profession: politician
Nationality: East Timor
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Mauk Moruk
- Mauk Moruk, born Paulino Gama, (22 June 1955 - 8 August 2015) was an East Timorese former Falintil guerrilla commander, opposition figure, and rebel leader of the Maubere Revolutionary Council (KRM).
- Moruk was a critic of the policies of the independent government of East Timor, advocating that the government do more to alleviate widespread unemployment and poverty in the country.
- Moruk was particularly critical of the policies for former President Xanana Gusmão, who is also a former guerilla leaders during the Indonesian occupation of East Timor.Moruk was born Paulino Gama in Laga, Portuguese Timor.
- Moruk's brother is Cornelio Gama, a former FALINTIL commander, former member of the National Parliament, and leader of the National Unity of Timorese Resistance (UNDERTIM) political party since its founding in 2005.Mauk Moruk was a senior commander in the Falintil, the military wing of the Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor (FRETILIN) during the war for independence against Indonesia.
- In 1984, Moruk was one of four Falintil officers who staged an internal coup attempt against the Commander of Falintil, Xanana Gusmão.
- The coup against Gusmão failed.
- In the aftermath of the failed coup, Maruk surrendered to Indonesian authorities and eventually went into exile in the Netherlands.Moruk eventually returned to East Timor from exile in the Netherlands.
- He founded the Maubere Revolutionary Council (KRM), also called the Revolutionary Council (KR), a paramilitary group.
- Under Maruk, the KRM sought popular support against the government through grassroots (known as maubere locally) appeals.In March 2015, Moruk's rebel group, the Maubere Revolutionary Council (KRM), began a series of attacks on police.
- Members of the KRM assaulted a police compound using explosives and guns, in one of the March 2015 attacks, injuring four security personnel.The East Timorese government launched a military campaign against the KRM in March, announcing that the joint operation to "prevent and suppress criminal actions from illegal groups" in a May 2015 statement.
- According to the government, a number of KRM members had surrendered as a result.Mauk Moruk, the head of the KRM, was killed in a joint police and military operation against the group in the suco (village) of Fatulia on Saturday, August 8, 2015.
- He died at the age of 60.
- The government of East Timor released a statement on the operation following Moruk's death, stating, "Every effort was made during the operation to avoid this outcome," a government spokesman said in a statement, calling for calm.
- Regrettably the operation was unable to avoid a confrontation resulting in an exchange of gunfire."Moruk's death raised concerns that there could be an escalation of unrest in East Timor.
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