Africa-Press – Angola. The Humanist Party of Angola (PHA) paid homage, this Thursday, to the women burned by UNITA, in 1983, for alleged practice of witchcraft.
The act essentially aimed to demonstrate the party’s solidarity with the women burned 40 years ago, in the town of Jamba, former UNITA “headquarters”.
When speaking at the ceremony, the president of the PHA, Belas Malaquias, said that respect for the dead is a fundamental duty and a prerequisite for peace and reconciliation.
According to the deputy to the National Assembly, the tribute was also intended to “rebuild” broken relationships and find ways that allow individuals and communities to live together.
“In order for there to be forgiveness, there must be an expression of remorse and repentance, in addition to the availability to welcome the victims”, he said, having highlighted that the tribute was part of the right to memory and truth that the victims’ families have, with a value of symbolic reparation”.
It should be remembered that the Angolan Government has an ongoing Reconciliation Plan in Memory of the Victims of Political Conflicts, which provides, among other issues, for the issuance of death certificates and the construction of a memorial for all victims of political conflicts recorded in the country .
To this end, the Commission for the Implementation of the Reconciliation Plan in Memory of the Victims of Political Conflicts (CIVICOP) was created in 2019, under the guidance of the President of the Republic, João Lourenço.
The aim of the project is to draw up a general plan to pay homage to the victims of the political conflicts that occurred in Angola between November 11, 1975 (independence day) and April 4, 2002 (end of the war).
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