(a) Eduardo dos Santos wishes to impose himself upon the Angolans as the sole holder of power in the country.

(b) The right and duty of the candidates to run for the presidentials is personal and not of the parties, coalition of parties or group of citizens who support the candidates. This being the case, the candidate is the only person who must decide to withdraw from the race for the Presidency.

(c) Despite the obstacles created by Eduardo dos Santos and his strategies devised to stay in power without being elected, the UNITA candidate, Dr. Jonas Malheiro Savimbi unequivocally reiterates his readiness to contest the second round of the Presidential Elections, which should be held as soon as the situation allows.

(d) The UNITA militants express their total and unequivocal backing for the availability of their candidate, Dr. Jonas Savimbi for the elections. They also wish to alert the national and international communities that they will fight with all means at their disposal to enable this important event to take place, for the sake of the nascent democracy in Angola.

(a) In 1975, the pica-pau genocide in Luanda where the MPLA people's power assassinated 300 (three hundred) UNITA militants.

(b) In 1975, the MPLA armed forces with the complicity of a detachment of the Portuguese armed forces, carried out the massacre of more than two thousand UNITA supporters, on the bridge over the Kwanza river, in Dondo.

(c) In 1975, the MPLA forces murdered more than 200 (two hundred) UNITA militants in Kassamba.

(d) For a short period, from 27th May 1977, the MPLA armed forces carried out collective assassination of more than 40,000 (forty thousand) Angolans, accused of being factionists and supporters of the leaders of an attempted coup-de-etat, Mr. Nito Alves and Mr. Van-Dunen.

(e) In 1992, genocide took place in Luanda, carried out by the MPLA militia, the rapid intervention police and the armed forces. More than 30,000 (thirty thousand) UNITA supporters and Angolans of ethnic ovimbundu and many thousand more in other parts of Angola were murdered. Amongst the murdered in Luanda were, 4 high ranking Leaders of UNITA: the Vice-President, Geremias Kalandula Chitunda, the Secretary General of the Party, Mr. Adolosi Paulo Mango Alicerces, the chief of the UNITA delegation to the Joint Military and Political Commission (CCPM), Mr. Elias Salupeto Pena and the Chief of UNITA administrative services, Mr. Eliseu Sapitango Chimbili. Their bodies are still under the MPLA custody in Luanda.

(f) In January 1993, on a day known as the Bloody Friday, the MPLA militia, the rapid intervention police and the armed forces, carried out a selective assassination in Luanda of hundreds of Angolans of ethnic Bakongo.

(g) In 1994, the MPLA airforce carried out a deliberate bombardment of a primary school, in Waku-Kungo. More than 150 (one hundred and fifty) children were killed.

(h) From January 1993 until November 1994, the MPLA airforce bombarded constantly the city of Huambo, causing more than 3,000 (three thousand) civilian victims, the old, the women and the children.

(i) From April 1997, during the implementation of the extension of central administration, under the Lusaka protocol, the MPLA armed forces and the police murdered more than 1,200 (one thousand two hundred) UNITA personnel of its national structural organisation.

(j) Today, more than two million Angolans are displaced within Angola. They have escaped the massacres perpetrated by the MPLA forces during the extension of State administration.

(k) In 1998, the MPLA carried out selective assassinations in Luanda, of 150 (one hundred and fifty) Angolans of ethnic ovimbundu.

(l) In 1998, Monua confirmed the massacre of more than 100 (one hundred) business people, in Bula.

(m) In 1998, the massacre in Malange of 300 (three hundred) people: Angolans, Congolese and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

- In the struggle against colonial Portugal, we were called terrorists and they pledged never to negotiate with us.

- In the resistance against the Russian and Cuban imperialism, the MPLA and its masters called us Fantoches and swore to crush us.