Australia began to organize resistance against the Japanese and built it on the support of the local population.

However, there was also the Colunas Negras (the black columns): Timorese militiamen who terrorized the civilian population for the Japanese by the end of the occupation.

On 30 October 1946 he was made Commander of the Military Order of Torre e Espada, of Valor, Loyalty and Merit posthumously.

[2] At the district headquarters in Ainaro a monument was erected to this Timorese hero that is still in good condition.

The Dom Aleixo Administrative Post in the Dili Municipality was named in his honor.