"The political leadership of FLEC-FAC calls on the Portuguese Government to clearly denounce the atrocities, war crimes and serious violations of international humanitarian law, the repressive actions of the João Lourenço regime in the territory of Cabinda", says the statement released this Monday, signed by the spokesperson for the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda-Forças Armadas Cabindesas (FLEC-FAC), Jean Claude Nzita.
In the statement, the organization that has been demanding the autonomy of Cabinda, an oil-producing province in the north of the country, for several years, denounced, this Monday, that seven civilian women were killed by the Angolan army, suspected of being wives of FLEC-FAC soldiers, on the Mbata-Mbengi border.
According to the note, the Angolan military launched a vast campaign of persecution against innocent Cabinda civilians living on the border.
"In view of the human rights violations committed by the Angolan army on the border between Cabinda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, FLEC-FAC calls on the Portuguese Prime Minister, Luís Montenegro, to severely condemn the defenseless Cabindans and urges him to denounce the aggression of the territory of Cabinda due to the military invasion by Angola", the statement said.
According to the document, "the military conflict is threatening the security of neighboring countries".
FLEC has been fighting for the independence of the territory, where much of the country's oil comes from, for several years, claiming that the enclave was a protectorate and not an integral part of Angolan territory.
Cabindans remember the Treaty of Simulambuco, signed in 1885 by the princes, chiefs and officials of the kingdom of Angoio and the representative of the Portuguese crown, Guilherme Augusto de Brito Capello.
