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Cabinda independence movement accuses the Angolan army of "bloody incursion" into DRCongo

The independence movement in Cabinda this Friday accused the Angolan Armed Forces of launching a "military operation against a group of unarmed civilians" in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRCongo), near the border with the Angolan oil enclave.

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"The Angolan Armed Forces (FAA) launched a military operation against a group of unarmed civilians suspected of being FLEC soldiers near the Yema-di-Yanga and Mbaka-Khosi border in the Kakongo sector, Lukula territory, Kongo-Central province, in the village of Kinkiama", last Thursday at 9:45 pm, accuses a communiqué from the independence organization Front for the Liberation of the State of Cabinda - Armed Forces of Cabinda (FLEC-FLAC), sent to Lusa.

"The attack resulted in the death of 6 people, including 4 decapitated young men", he accuses FLEC in the text, in which he describes the "bloody incursion of the FAA in Central Congo" (DRCongo).

"The village of Kinkiama is suspected to be the rear base of the FLEC-FAC, according to the Angolan authorities," the text adds, describing a state of "confusion" in the region "around the presence of Angolan soldiers in several villages in Central Congo in the DRCongo, near the border with Cabinda".

"The high military command of the FAC denounces the incursion of Angolan soldiers into Congolese territory under the pretext of hunting down the FLEC soldiers in Cabinda," and "informs national and international public opinion" that the FAC "has no soldiers or bases" behind the DRCongo.

"FLEC-FAC has been fighting on Cabinda territory against Angolan invaders since its creation, and we respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the DRCongo. There isn't a single FLEC soldier in the two Congos," RDCongo and the Republic of Congo, the movement says.

Lusa has questioned the Ministry of Defense with FLEC-FAC allegations without ever obtaining confirmation regarding the clashes and casualties of the Angolan armed forces

Cabinda province, where most of the country's oil reserves are concentrated, is not contiguous with the rest of the territory and for many years local leaders have been advocating independence, claiming an autonomous colonial history of Luanda.

FLEC, through its "armed arm," the FAC, fights for independence in that province, claiming that the enclave was a Portuguese protectorate, as established in the Treaty of Simulambuco, signed in 1885, and not an integral part of Angolan territory.

Cabinda is bounded to the north by the Republic of Congo, to the east and south by the Democratic Republic of Congo, and to the west by the Atlantic Ocean.

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