Mário Lemos Pires was a major-general of the Portuguese Army and the last colonial governor of Portuguese Timor.
Pires, c. 1991
Pires in his military uniform
Portuguese Timor was a colonial possession of Portugal that existed between 1702 and 1975. During most of this period, Portugal shared the island of Timor with the Dutch East Indies.
Portuguese Governor José Joaquim Lopes de Lima [de], who without authorisation agreed on new borders with Dutch authorities.
Group of political deportees in Timor, 1932.
Memorial to chief Evaristo de Sá Benevides.
Portuguese ceremony in Atabae (1970)