Speaking to the Lusa agency, José Mateus Zecamutchima said that this number of deaths is not the definitive one, since there are still many missing and fugitives, namely people who have fled to the forests.
Police authorities claim that they killed six protesters who tried to break into a police station in Cafunfo, while the MPPLT contradicts that version, accusing Angolan forces of having fired indiscriminately at unarmed citizens.
José Mateus Zecamutchima added that one of the dead is the son of the regional secretary of the movement.
Regarding the detainees, and according to the MPPLT president, the number remains uncertain, but they will no longer be in Cafunfo, as they will have been sent to Dundo.
Zecamutchima also said that this morning the Government sent a plane to Cafunfo to transport 27 patients to Dundo.
The Lunda Tchokwe Protective Movement fights for the autonomy of the Lundas region, in East-North Angola.
The autonomy of the Lundas region (Lunda Norte and Lunda Sul, in the east), rich in diamonds, is claimed by this movement which is based on a Protectorate Agreement signed between natives Lunda-Tchokwe and Portugal in the years 1885 and 1894, which would give the internationally recognized status.
Portugal would have ignored the condition of the kingdom when it negotiated the independence of Angola between 1974/1975 only with the liberation movements, according to the movement.
