João Viegas Carrascalão

He studied topography and surveying in Luanda and specialized in cartography in Switzerland.

He supervised the August 11, 1975, coup which eventually started the civil war.

The latter forced the governor, Mario Lemos Pires, to flee as well as the Portuguese contingent stationed on the nearing island of Ataúro.

[2] He later served as East Timor's ambassador to South Korea from 2009 until his death in 2012.

He was the director of the Department of Geographical and Cadastral Surveys during the Portuguese administration of Timor and was the minister of infrastructure during the Transitional Government of East Timor by the UNO (UNTAET).