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Mozambique: Liberation Struggle veteran Mónica Chitupila laid to rest in Niassa
3:08 CAT | 07 Jun 2021
Image: Armando Emílio Guebuza on Facebook
Mónica Chitupila, former commander of the Women’s Detachment in Niassa and former member of the Frelimo Central Committee, died in Maputo Central Hospital on May 31st.
Colonel Mónica Chitupila was buried in her home village of Messumba, Lago district, Niassa province, on Sunday, June 6.
At a wake for her passing, held in Maputo on Friday, June 4, Combatants Minister Carlos Siliya reaffirmed that the historic legacy of the homeland’s liberators should serve the country’s youth as an enduring example of sacrifice.
The minister was paying tribute to veteran of the national liberation struggle, Mónica Chitupila, provincial commander of the Women’s Detachment in Niassa and former member of Frelimo Central Committee.
Relatives, friends and former colleagues, including former President of the Republic, Armando Guebuza, and the president of the Mozambican Women’s Organization, Isaura Nyusi, attended the wake and shared memories of the combatant.
On Sunday, at the burial ceremony, in Messumba, the Secretary of State for the province of Niassa, Dinis Vilanculo, said that Monica Chitupila had performed the functions entrusted to her with zeal, competence and determination, especially during the national liberation struggle, and had worked hard in the organisation of the women’s detachment in Niassa.
Vilanculo also highlighted Chitupila’s role as a mother, combatant, and veteran of the national liberation struggle.
Relatives, colleagues from the trenches and the Mozambican people were still waiting for her embrace, Vilanculo said, but she passed very early, and so the population of Niassa province, and particularly Lago district where she was born, must now assume the responsibility of continuing her role, valuing her ideas and defending the people of the Mozambican homeland, making them a reason to face new challenges in the fight against terrorism and all other forms of instability in the country.
Source: Gabinete do Secretario de Estado do Niassa / Rádio Moçambique
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