In a press release sent to Lusa this Friday, the Cabinda State Liberation Front - Cabinda Armed Forces (FLEC/FAC) denounced the "systematic indiscriminate attacks against the civilian population of Cabinda by the Angolan army".
"For decades, the Angolan State has incessantly disregarded fundamental human rights, as well as international law, with regard to the population of Cabinda", the note highlights.
According to FLEC/FAC, the "Angolan President, João Lourenço, created a system of systematic oppression and repression against the people of Cabinda".
"These human rights violations constitute a new variant of apartheid, a practice prohibited by international law. FLEC/FAC condemns France's support for a tyrannical regime led by João Lourenço, which is terrorizing the innocent population of Cabinda," the document, signed by André Binda Zau, head of the Maiombe Sul brigade, stresses.
For FLEC/FAC, "the Angolan regime follows a segregationist, colonialist and imperialist policy, the inhumane consequences of which can be illustrated by numerous facts," and also considers that the head of state "at the head of the African Union constitutes a danger to Africa and to peace on the continent."
"The Angolan President, João Lourenço, is not a democrat, nor a man of peace, but a warmonger. João Lourenço, President of Angola, a country that militarily occupies Cabinda, has never been in favor of a peaceful solution to the conflict between the Republic of Angola and Cabinda," the note adds.
Recently, João Lourenço, in an interview with the magazine Jeune Afrique, said that the security situation in the oil-producing province of Cabinda is stable and that FLEC/FAC does not pose any threat to Angolan territory.
FLEC/FAC has been demanding independence for several years for the territory of Cabinda, the province from which much of the country's oil comes, invoking the Treaty of Simulambuco of 1885, which designated that part of the territory as a Portuguese protectorate.
