Africa-Press – Angola. The Minister of National Defense, Former Combatants and Veterans of the Fatherland, João Ernesto Dos Santos “Liberdade”, guides on Thursday, in the municipality of Xá-muteba, province of Lunda Norte, the central political act in reference to Martyrs’ Day of colonial repression, which took place on January 4th.
According to the anniversary program, the minister arrives in the early hours of Thursday in the municipality of Xá-muteba, coming by land from Malanje.
The political event will be preceded by a ceremony of laying wreaths at the tomb of the unknown deceased, in which members of the local government, the Defense Minister’s delegation, ecclesiastical entities, among others, will participate.
The revolt of peasants in the Baixa de Kassanje region against the Portuguese colonial regime, on January 4, 1961, in the former Portuguese-Belgian company of Cotonang, in Malanje, as well as the beginning of the armed struggle, on February 4 of the same year , promoted the achievement of National Independence, on November 11, 1975.
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