Reconciliation Commission works to identify remains found in Angola

Luanda, Aug 30 (Prensa Latina) The Commission for the Implementation of the Reconciliation Plan in Memory of the Victims of Political Conflicts in Angola (CIVICOP) is working on the identification of several mortal remains found in the province of Bié.

August 30, 2023
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According to a report of the Angolan Public Television (TPA), the experts consider that the discovery in Luanda, in the locality of Tchanji in the municipality of Cuemba, could be personalities of the then armed wing of the now political party National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), the extinct FALA.

Presumably they correspond to Generals Armando Júlio (Tarzan), Altino Bango Sapalalo (Bock), António Perestelo Moura and Antero Vieira; in the case of Vieira, the relatives have already given their consent for DNA tests to be carried out with a view to identification.

The remains are also believed to include those of Ana Isabel Paulino Polipossa, known as Ana Savimbi, one of the wives of former UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi.

In addition to these people, CIVICOP also found the bones of a girl between 11 and 14 years old, whose identity is unknown.

In order to find the victims of the political conflicts from 1975 to 2002, CIVICOP, after having been in Cuando Cubango, is now working in this part of the province of Bié.

This incident, involving high commanders of the now defunct FALA, may have occurred after the military defeat suffered by this force on April 25, 2000 in the city of Cuito, Bié province, according to the TPA report.

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