The certificates were delivered by the Minister of Justice and Human Rights, Francisco Queiroz, as coordinator of the Commission for the Implementation of the Reconciliation Plan in Memory of Victims of Political Conflicts (CIVICOP), to Chissole Vieira Dias Mingas, daughter of Saidy Mingas , and Eunice Baptista, daughter of Nito Alves.
The commission coordinator said that, with this process, Angola turns a page in its history, stressing that the environment is now "brothers and children of the same country".
Francisco Queiroz said that the apology made by the President of the Republic, João Lourenço, on the 26th of May, introduced a shift in "grudges, negative feelings and an atmosphere of tension".
According to the coordinator of CIVICOP, conditions have been created for Angolans to make "a normal life among brothers, among children of the same country."
"I know that you suffered a lot during all this time with the absence of news, information and also, at times, some social exclusion and this caused you a lot of pain, the moment of reconciliation and pacification of spirits has finally arrived", said Francisco Queiroz .
The minister stressed that, after the delivery of the death certificates, the next step will be, in cases where it is necessary, the delivery of the mortal remains "so that a decent funeral can be held for the deceased".
"I would like to invite you now to collaborate with the authorities, with CIVICOP, in order to give this honorable outcome to the memory of those who perished in this political conflict", he stressed.
Speaking to the press, Chissole Vieira Dias Mingas said that the delivery of the death certificate is proof that her father was murdered.
"Because until recently I could imagine anything but his death, even though I've lived 44 years of my life without my father and he only had time to make one daughter, but this certificate put me on the spot. floor," said Chissole Mingas.
In turn, Eunice Baptista recalled that she lost her father at the age of three and has few memories of him.
Asked if she can forgive what happened, Eunice Baptista replied that she did, because she has to move on with her life: "It depends on each person, in my case it's possible, it's also possible in Chissole's case."
On the 27th of May, the Government held, for the first time in 44 years, the first tribute to the victims of the 27th of May and to all people who died as a result of political conflicts in Angola between 1975, the year of the country's independence, and April 4, 2002, date of the end of the civil war.
"This is not the time to point the finger at the culprits. It's important that each one assumes their responsibilities in their part. That's how, imbued with this spirit, we came to the victims of conflicts and Angolans in general to humbly ask, in name of the Angolan state, our public apologies for the great evil that were the summary executions at that time and in those circumstances", said João Lourenço the day before the tribute.
On May 27, 1977, an alleged coup attempt, in an operation apparently led by Nito Alves - then a former interior minister since independence, on November 11, 1975, until October 1976 - was violently repressed by the regime. António Agostinho Neto, the first President of independent Angola.
Saidy Mingas, then finance minister, faithful to Agostinho Neto, was also killed at that time.
In a settling of scores between leaders of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (the only one that has been in power since independence) and with the help of Cuban troops, then present in Angola, the regime detained and killed thousands of people, whose total still is unknown.
