The light rain that has been falling since the early hours of this Friday, in Bailundo, one of the 11 municipalities in the province of Huambo, in the south of the country, did not stop the LIMA ladies from singing several songs in the "Umbundu" language that praise the " fallen martyrs".
The remains of Adolosi Mango Alicerces, former secretary-general of UNITA, and Elias Salupeto Pena, former head of the UNITA delegation to the Joint Political-Military Commission (CCPM), left Luanda at the beginning of the night and arrived this morning. to Bailundo, in a journey of more than 500 kilometers of road.
Both remains, of former UNITA leaders killed in 1992 following the post-electoral conflict, are being laid to rest in Bailundo, 77 kilometers from the capital of Huambo, birthplace of Adolosi Mango Alicerces, where he will be buried in afternoon this Friday.
The funeral ceremony for Elias Salupeto Pena takes place on Saturday, in the municipality of Andulo, province of Bié, according to the funeral programme.
Around the funeral vehicles, parked in the front of the UNITA municipal committee in Bailundo, the women of LIMA, coming from Luanda and other parts of the province of Huambo, sing in Umbundu that "in this Angola, several heroes such as Salupeto and Alicerces died". , as one of the activists translated to Lusa.
"Oh mother Angola, it's worth the change", sang in chorus the ladies dressed from head to toe in green, red and black, the colors of UNITA.
According to deputy Rafael Massanga Savimbi, son of the founding leader of UNITA Jonas Savimbi, the tribute to the former leaders of his party "is symbolic and, above all, deserved" because they are "very important figures who have marked the country's political history". .
"You know that Angola experienced, within the framework of its democratic process, the first elections in 1992 and both former leaders played a fundamental role in the materialization of the general peace agreements, in Bicesse, so they are patriots and nationalists who marked a generation", said the politician today in statements to Lusa.
Rafael Massanga Savimbi, also Elias Salupeto Pena's cousin, also regretted the "tragic way" in which both leaders lost their lives in Luanda.
Women “invade” UNITA committee in Bailundo to pay tribute to “Salupeto e Mango”
Dozens of women assigned to the Angolan League of Angolan Women (LIMA), UNITA's female arm, "invaded" this Friday morning the municipal committee of UNITA in Bailundo to pay tribute to former leaders who died 20 years ago.
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