Windhoek.- Besides a meeting with his Namibian counterpart Hage Geingob, Lourenco participated in the commemorations for the Day of Cassinga, at 40 years of the masacre against 600 people sheltered in a camp in the south of Angola, by the forces of the South African apartheid regime on May 4, 1978.
Of course this tragic deed was not enough to stop the victory against the colonial occupation, said the visitor in an activity in which he was decorated with the First Degree Welwitschia Mirabilis Order, the highest decoration granted by the Namibian government.
Heliported special troops attacked the camp that morning and a base of the delegation of the People's Organization of South West Africa (Swapo) in Chetequera, also in Angolan territory.
Cuban forces near Cassinga came in defense of the refugee camp in southern Angola at the cost of the lives of 16 soldiers.
The movement of forces stopped the total extermination of the inhabitants of Cassinga, because the South African racist forces got out of the place without fighting.
The Namibian President said that Angola and Namibia are fraternal neighbors, joined by links of culture and blood.
Lourenco became the 10th figure, president or former president, who received the decoration, which she thanked on behalf of the Angolan people and government.
During a press conference Thursday, both dignitaries announced the purpose of building two monuments to honor the fallen, one in Cassinga and the other one in Chetequera (Cunene). (PL)
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