The request for a hearing was delivered on Thursday at the office of the President of the National Assembly, the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) said in a statement.
At stake is the constitutional guarantee regarding equal treatment by the press and democratic opposition, which UNITA believes has been violated by Angolan public television (TPA) and TV Zimbo, a channel of the Medianova group, which belonged to generals "Dino" and "Kopelipa" and former Vice President Manuel Vicente and passed into the hands of the State in July 2020.
"Among other facts, they omitted UNITA's position on the Cafunfo massacre presented in a communication by President Adalberto Costa Júnior and in press conferences of the parliamentary group, in addition to the visit of deputies to the mining town of Cafunfo, where they were held for three days without a reference in the bodies concerned ", criticizes the parliamentary group.
Another fact pointed out is the treatment of the communiqués of the top organs of the two parties about the massacre of Cafunfo, with TPA and TV Zimbo being read in that of the Political Bureau of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) and the Committee's omitted. UNITA Permanent Council.
The mining town of Cafunfo was the scene of incidents between the police and the popular on the 30th of January, which resulted in an undetermined number of deaths and injuries, and has been under a strong security force since then.
The UNITA Parliamentary Group asks that the entities concerned - the minister, Manuel Homem, and the managers of TPA and TV Zimbo be heard by the 6th and 10th specialized working committees of the National Assembly, which deal with matters related to Social Communication and Human Rights.
