Background
Do Céu da Silva Lopes Federer was born on Atauro Island, in Portuguese Timor in 1957. Her father was a journalist and tawyer who was at odds with the government.
Do Céu da Silva Lopes Federer was born on Atauro Island, in Portuguese Timor in 1957. Her father was a journalist and tawyer who was at odds with the government.
She was a linguist who can speak six languages. She was one of the founders of the Non Government organisation which they called Timor Aid. In 2003 she gave evidence to a public hearing about the mistreatment of political prisoners in the early 1980s.
These were people tricked into travelling there because they believed they were on a brief visit and they arrived with few possessions.
In the same year she led Comissão Nacional de Eleições which organised elections. She has been researching a book about the unknown activists of the East Timor.
She stood as an independent in the 2012 Presidential election and obtained 0.4% of the vote.
She too was a member of the resistance and she travelled between Australia and East Timotr although it was in Australia that she brought up her family.