Luanda – The bones of Nito Alves and Jacob João Caetano “Monstro Imortal”, former leaders killed in the coup attempt of 27 May 1977 will be delivered to their relatives on Wednesday, in Luanda, ANGOP has learnt.
According to the Reconciliation Commission in Memory of Political Conflicts Victims (CIVICOP) in the same day it will be delivered the bones of Arsénio José Lourenço Mesquita “Sianuk” and Ilídio Ramalhete who also died on the occasion.
Talking to the press the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights, Francisco Queiroz, who is the coordinator of the CIVICOP, said on Monday that the delivery of the bones will take place in the army headquarters and it will be of a political nature.
The official explained the four bodies were taken where there were about 20 dead, and other bodies are still under analysis in the genetic point of view to determine the DNA.
However, the minister clarified that many of them already have a completed registration and just missing to cross it with the data of the family and some of them live in Portugal.
“The aforementioned registration did not come with the technicians of Portugal because the families pointed specialists in whom they trust so that they can bring the blood to Angola”, added the official.
Regarding this aspect the minister said that there is no imposition because what is intended is full transparency, technical and scientific security.
The minister said that there are other places already registered and identified to start the works, which includes exhumation, the major part of it in the capital city of the country and at its time will be published.
The work teams are divided in four groups being the first for micro-identification and exhumation of the bones, the second for analyses with a forensic specialist, the third is for the issuing of death certificates and the fourth for mass communication.
The official it made known that since the beginning of the works over 2,000 death certificates were already delivered to the bereaved families.
Meanwhile, the CIVICOP coordinator thanked the collaboration of the relatives of the deceased people in this process, which facilitates everything and finally enables the holding of the funeral of such victims, and appease the living relatives.
Source: Angola Press News Agency