Colimau 2000
militia (?)
概観
以下は [@scambary-gangs] pp. 12--13 まるうつし：
This is a small sect with animist beliefs that is estimated to have a few hundred supporters and whose members claim to reject the authority of the government. [12/13]
The group’s followers believe fallen independence fighters will come alive again and return from the forests to lead them. The followers are poor, illiterate peasants from rural areas and some ex-guerrillas. According to an anthropologist Mathew Libbis doing field work in the Manufahi area, Colimau has strong local support in its power base around the Kemak suco of Leimea Kraik in Hatolia.
Colimau 2000 returned from West Timor in 2000, and despite claims of animism, they apparently invited a priest to consec rate the ground on which a church was to be built. According to Mathew Libbis, Colimau is a Kemak expression meaning to hate each other, but according to the 2001 Suco Survey, it is also the name of a Bunak suco in Bobonaro.
Colimau was one of the clandestine groups th at fought for East Timor's independence from Indonesia for decades. After it voted to break away from the CNRT in August 1999, Colimau 2000 members were not accommod ated in government offices or the legislature. The group was also involved in a controversy in 2003 when the defense forces arrested their members in large num bers, without following due process. This has further fuelled group’s sense of grievance.
Led by Osorio Mau Leke and Bruno da Costa Magalhaes, Colimau 2000 have gone through a series of name changes, currently re-inventing themselves as the Movement for National Unity (MUN), perhaps in an attempt to gain a wider base of support. The main demand of the MUN is th at the national flag be changed as it should not be the flag of Fretilin, a political party.
Due to its proximity to the border, the group is believed to have some following in the refugee camps in Indonesia. There have also been allegations about the group having made contact with militia leaders in West Timor in order to plan a strategy to destabilize the country after the UN peacekeepers leave; at least one source of this accusation is the Indonesian military comma nder in West Timor. Accusations have been made that the group has been in volved in petty crime and extortion.
Colimau 2000 is widely feared and believed to be involved in a number of violent incidents in the current crisis , most recently on August 14 when they clashed with a martial arts group in Bobonaro, leaving one person seriously injured. Other sources maintain that this group’s fearsome reputa tion is undeserved, that they get blamed for incidents they were not involved in . As described earlier, this group was disciplined and peaceful during the violence of early September in Caicoli, Dili, following the arrest of Major Reinado.
2006年の暴動
ディリ (Dili city) における Crisis-2006 の際に Coilmau 2000 がデモに参加したという 記述もある。 （[@robinson-ten_years_on] p.1012）
2007年の選挙
2007年6月の選挙のために、 政党として PDRT (Partido Democrática Republica de Timor) をた ちあげた。