{"id":80186,"date":"2025-03-21T18:20:57","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T18:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/cabinda-separatists-accuse-angolan-military-of-killing-civilians"},"modified":"2025-04-20T13:18:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T13:18:20","slug":"cabinda-separatists-accuse-angolan-military-of-killing-civilians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/cabinda-separatists-accuse-angolan-military-of-killing-civilians","title":{"rendered":"Cabinda Separatists Accuse Angolan Military of Killing Civilians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Angola. <\/strong><\/span><b>The Cabinda State Liberation Front (FLEC) denounced in a statement the death of four teenagers at dawn this morning by Angolan soldiers in the village of Ntando-Maselele, in the Belize region.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>In the statement, signed by Jean Claude Nzita, spokesperson for FLEC-Armed Forces of Cabinda, the enclave&#8217;s independence supporters added that the bodies were \u201ccompletely charred\u201d and that the village coordinator and five other people \u201cwere inexplicably and arbitrarily detained by Angolan soldiers\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFLEC-FAC vehemently denounces the extreme brutality and unacceptable repression exercised by the regime (of the President of Angola) Joa\u0303o Lourenc\u0327o (&#8230;) against civilians in the villages of Kisungu and Ntando-Maselele\u201d after two attacks carried out by the Armed Forces of Cabinda on March 3 and 13.<\/p>\n<p>The guerrilla movement accuses the Angolan regime of having carried out \u201cextrajudicial executions and systematic torture\u201d against civilians, who were allegedly \u201cbeaten with electric cables and iron bars\u201d, subjected them to detention in secret locations, threatened with death and deprived of food and water.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFLEC-FAC calls on the UN Secretary-General and former Portuguese Prime Minister Anto\u0301nio Guterres, who has in-depth knowledge of the situation in Cabinda, to take urgent measures to protect and support the civilians of Cabinda and to pay special attention to the populations\u201d of the two villages mentioned who, it reiterates, \u201care being victims of Angolan military repression\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The guerrillas have been demanding for several years the independence of the territory of Cabinda, the province from which a large part of Angolan oil comes, invoking the Treaty of Simulambuco, of 1885, which designates that territorial part as a Portuguese protectorate, claiming that the enclave is not an integral part of Angolan territory.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Angola<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Angola. The Cabinda State Liberation Front (FLEC) denounced in a statement the death of four teenagers at dawn this morning by Angolan soldiers in the village of Ntando-Maselele, in the Belize region. 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