Manuel Carrascalão

Manuel Guterres Viegas Carrascalão (Atauro, 16 December 1933 – Dili, 11 July 2009) was an Indonesian parliamentarian and prominent East Timorese independence leader. The Carrascalão family is of mestiço ancestry; On May 22, 1952, at the age of 18, he was made Knight of the Order of Entrepreneurial Merit. He died at the age of 75, on July 11, 2009, at the Hospital Nacional Guido Valadares, in Dili, following a brain embolism.

Manuel Carrascalão

Manuel Guterres Viegas Carrascalão (Atauro, 16 December 1933 – Dili, 11 July 2009) was an Indonesian parliamentarian and prominent East Timorese independence leader. The Carrascalão family is of mestiço ancestry; On May 22, 1952, at the age of 18, he was made Knight of the Order of Entrepreneurial Merit. He died at the age of 75, on July 11, 2009, at the Hospital Nacional Guido Valadares, in Dili, following a brain embolism.