Career
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 foundation
