DILI, 12 november 2021 (TATOLI)– Max Stahl will be remembered as a hero for Timor-Leste and his contribution forever age in the history of Timor-Leste.
The Statement was highlighted by the Ambassador of Timor-Leste to Australia, Ines de Almeida in her speech at the funeral mass of Late Filmmaker and Journalist Max Stahl held at St Stephen’s Cathedral in Brisbane, Australia.
Ambassador Almeida in her speech expressed her deepest sorrow to the Wife and Family of Max Stahl saying:” I cannot imagine the pain of losing your husband and father, I hope you can take solace in knowing that max will be remembered as a hero of our country, his country and his contribution forever age in the history of Timor-Leste.
Ambassador Almeida said today is a day to pay respect and remembered Max Stahl and those 271 youth loriku asuwain and Kamal Abada a foreign student who was killed on 12 November while protesting peacefully for the right to self-determination.
“Today we pose to pay our respect to Max Stahl a filmmaker and journalist, whose courage and tenacity would test on this very day, 30 years ago inside Cruz cemetery. Today in Timor-Leste and around the world we are also posed to remember those 271 youth our loriko asuwain, and kamal’s abadas A foreign students who killed on 12 while protesting peacefully for our right to self-determination,” said Ambassador Almeida in her speech at St Stephen’s Cathedral in Brisbane, Australia.
Almeida said as much as the troops were determined to keep on firing the bullet killing the people. So true was the max courage’s and determination to keep the camera rolling, risking his life and those who dare to help him Soon those truths telling images been around the world.
Max’s images were an awake up call to the international community, there was no more denying and no way of unknowing.
At the same time, Ambassador Almeida reminds everyone that in a long and difficult 24 years of resistance all the activists and the leaders of the diplomatic front and friends of the solidarity movement struggled to prove to the world that the massive human rights violation will be perpetrated against people of Timor-Leste.
“Few people want to hear our history, few people believe in our histories, whether in the corridor of the United Nations, in the streets of every city around the world, or the international conferences,” she said.
Almeida said, Max has always joined Timor-Leste in the journey of speaking the truth to the world:” Max determination, however, did not stop on the 12 November 1991, he made our struggle his struggle, our hope his hope, and our determination his determination, from then on he join us in our journey speaking truth to power around the world”
At the same Time, Ambassador Almeida was pleased that Timor’s President Francisco Guterres Lu-Olo awarded Mr. Stahl the ‘Order of Timor-Leste’ medal (Colar Ordem Timor-Leste) in 2019 In the same year the national parliament granted max Timorese citizenship,
“We now embraced Max as one of our own, as we do his family,” Almeida said.
Relevant News:http://www.tatoli.tl/en/2019/11/25/max-stahl-awarded-highest-civilian-honour/
Journalist: Jose Belarmino de Sa
Editor: Nelia Borges
