"We have done everything we were asked to do, we tried to dialogue and it does not work. It is a debt that has been going on since August 2009 and the problem is not being solved. If they do not pay, we will inevitably go out on the 20th", the association's president, José Alberto Nelson "Limuqueno" told Lusa.
The brigadier, retired since 2004, stressed that the objective "is not to create instability", but to demand only his rights.
"We are not bandits, we are not confusionists [agitators], we are former combatants", stressed the leader of the Association of Officers, Generals, Superiors, Captains and Reformed Subalterns (AOGSCSR), adding that "families are feeling sick".
"We only ask for the payment of the debt, even if it is in a phased manner. We are distressed and dying of hunger", stressed "Limuqueno".
The head of the association said that a new public complaint will be made on Thursday to request "special favor from Comrade João Lourenço", head of state, to make the payment.
AOGSCSR, which has more than 1600 members, released a document to which Lusa had access, giving knowledge of the request for authorization of the demonstration to several entities of the central and local administration.
Subscribers complain that subsidies and acquired rights have been cut, "dragging beneficiaries into disgrace and extreme poverty", and demand payment of the debt contracted by the State, through the Ministry of National Defense since August 2009 to date , estimated at 130 billion kwanzas.
Former combatants say in the same document that they had a recent meeting with the Minister of National Defense and Veterans of the Fatherland, in which they were told that the subsidies for domestic workers and the payment of pensions by military grade would be replaced, "but so far there is no sign ".
General and senior officials also suggested paying off the debt for seven years, leaving out another six years "taking into account the crisis that the Angolan State presents".
The demonstration is scheduled for 20 and 21 February, at 10 am, with a concentration at Largo da Independência, 1st of May, from where they will depart "in an orderly and peaceful manner" to the Palace of Justice, next to Cidade Alta, where power organs are concentrated in Luanda.
