The director of Former Combatants and Veterans of the Fatherland, Ananias Gomes, made it known that everything is ready for the event to take place in the municipality of Quela: "Everything is ready".
The official, quoted by Rádio Nacional de Angola (RNA), also informed that the act will be chaired by the Secretary of State for Former Combatants and Veterans of the Fatherland, General Domingos André Tchinhama.
"The Secretary of State for Former Combatants and Veterans of the Homeland, General Domingos André Tchinhama, presides over the act. Once you arrive, go to the cemetery monument where you will lay a wreath in the cemetery of the martyrs, then return to the municipal headquarters where the political act will take place", he said, in statements to RNA.
Asked about the fact that they were witnessing a commemoration that takes place at a time when the population is requesting more attention to the Baixa de Cassanje region, the director referred to "the effort that the central Executive, the provincial government, the provincial administration, all are committed to carrying out tasks that contribute to improving the living conditions of downtown populations".
In turn, citizens advocate greater dissemination of this event, as well as the elevation of the 4th of January to a national holiday.
This was the case of Adelino Ngunza, a survivor, who in statements to Angop, stressed that the victims of colonial repression "gave their lives so that Angola today becomes an independent country", while Manuel Nguge, also in statements to Angop, advocated that in order to dignify the victims a memorial and pilot neighborhood should be erected in Teka-dia-kinda.
The governor of Luanda, Manuel Homem, will also not let the date go unnoticed and, in the capital, he will travel to the Santa Ana cemetery where he will lay a wreath in honor of the victims.
It should be noted that the day of the Martyrs of the Colonial Repression was created to honor the victims of the Baixa de Cassanje Massacre. On January 4, 1961, the Portuguese colonial regime repressed cotton plantation peasants who revolted against slave labor.
Part of the national liberation depended on this event, which, according to Angop, raised the awareness of Angolans who, a month later, on February 4, 1961, began an armed struggle against the Portuguese colonial regime that ended with the proclamation of the independence of Angola (November 11, 1975).
