Vice President of the 12 November Commission Rogerio Castro da Cruz said the government's plan to build a monument in Santa Cruz hasn't been implemented.

He said while the former President Jose Ramos-Horta launched the plan last year at the Santa Cruz Cemetery, it remains a plan only.

"We gave the proposal already, and the government must decide when it happens because it's a government plan," said the Vice President of the November 12 Committee in Balide,Dili.

Nevertheless he added, they continue to demand the government implement the existing plan, because victims of the Santa Cruz Massacre on November 12 died for the country.

On the other hand, the President of Commission E (for infrastructure, transport and communication) MP Pedro das Martiresda Costa said the budget to build the monument in Santa Cruz had already been used to build another monument opposite the Motael Church.

"The monument seems to be for the authors of November 12, but they do not agree and they want a monument to symbolize the act of November 12," said the President of Commission E.

He said to build another monument at Santa Cruz they need to put a new budget towards it because the existing budget has already been used.

Meanwhile survivor of the Santa Cruz Massacre, MP Maria Angelica Rangel said in 2010 the budget was put forward to build the monument at Santa Cruz but until now it hasn't happened.

"As a survivor of November 12, I accept the plan to build some historic monuments, so the next generation can see and remember how, in the past, the youth contributed to the nation," said MP Rangel.

In regards to the statue the government built opposite the Motael Church representing the victims of November 12, she said they should make a monument not a statue. "As a survivor I am sad," said the MP.