Manuel Magalhaes de Oliveira, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Manuel Magalhaes de Oliveira

East Timorese politician

Date of Birth: 20-Sep-1951

Date of Death: 09-Sep-1999

Profession: politician

Nationality: East Timor

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Manuel Magalhaes de Oliveira (born 20 September 1951 – 9 September 1999) was a CNRT (Conselho Nacional de Resistência Timorense) Leader in Bobonaro District.
CNRT is a National Council of East Timorese Resistance against 24 years of Indonesian brutal occupation. Already fluent in Portuguese, Tetun and several dialects, Manuel Magalhaes mastered the Indonesian language less than a year after Indonesia's 1975 invasion of East Timor.
His fluency in languages also enabled him to establish trust with Indonesia and obtain a government job.
His job allowed him to spy for East Timor's clandestine resistance. Manuel Magalhaes was killed 9 September 1999, 5 days after the result East Timorese referendum where majority chose to be independent.
He was killed at a lagoon near Maliana.
Witnesses said Magalhaes was shot, his body hacked to pieces and tossed into the sea.
The body was never found