The rehabilitation of cemetery spaces and the exhumation of bones to be placed in ossuaries in the Santana and Alto das Cruzes cemeteries (Luanda) were topics of the meeting between a delegation from the League of Combatants of Portugal, headed by Colonel Batalha da Silva, and the vice-governor for the Economic Sector, Jorge Miguêns.
The project falls within the scope of Operation Imbondeiro, and results from the Strategic Structuring Program "Conservation of Memories" of the League of Combatants.
The League of Combatants of Portugal offered to rehabilitate these two cemeteries, in order to honor the memory of the Portuguese soldiers who died in the service of the Portuguese Armed Forces in the last century.
A survey carried out by the League of Combatants points to the existence of 187 places, including cemeteries and other burial spaces, where there are mortal remains of Portuguese soldiers in Angola, in a total of 1548 references.
The president of the League, lieutenant general Joaquim Chito Rodrigues, said, when he traveled to Angola, in October 2023, that the operation is "complex and prolonged in time", because the national territory is large and during the conflicts of the last century , both soldiers from the then metropolis and those recruited locally fell into the service of the Portuguese Armed Forces and are spread throughout the country.
