“In this year 2022, nearly 50 years after that terrible day of December 16, 1972, I cannot help here to evoke the memory of the victims of the Wiriyamu massacre and bow to an unforgivable act that dishonored our history,” said in Maputo.
In his speech at the dinner offered by the Prime Minister to Filipe Nyusi, the President of the Republic of Mozambique, António Costa pointed out that “a relationship as intense and as long as that of the two countries is inevitably characterized by through diversity, of encounters and disagreements, slavery and liberation, progress and poverty, war and peace, for moments we certainly want to remember, but also for moments and events we have a duty to never forget”.
On December 16, 1972, about 400 unarmed civilians were killed by Portuguese soldiers in Wiriyamu (Mozambique).
“Relationships between friends are made in this way, they are made of the kindness of those who are victims and do not remember, but also for those who have a duty never to make them forget what they have practiced and in the light of history one must do penance”, he noted.
The Prime Minister believed that this had to happen because Portugal managed to reinvent its history with the overthrow of the dictatorship, “which opened the doors to peace, so that the conquered independence of Mozambique has definitively established our relations as friendships between sovereign countries. ” , free and equal”.
“It is from this realization that, with an open heart and with a renewed desire every day, we look and want to build a common future,” emphasized António Costa.
Prime Minister António Costa today concluded a two-day official visit to Mozambique, where he took part in the V Luso-Mozambican summit.
Source: El heraldo
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