The two FLEC factions celebrate Angola's recognition that "they can't hide their dead soldiers in Cabinda"

The Angolan interior minister's statement that there is an "armed offensive by criminal groups" in Cabinda that deserves the attention of the governments of Angola and the Republic of the Congo has sparked reactions between the two guerrilla factions fighting. for the independence of Cabinda, who reiterated his position to continue fighting for the independence of the territory. Without referring to the Cabinda-Cabacese Armed Forces Liberation Front (FLEC-FAC), Eugénio Laborinho considered that these actions "leave cross-border security between the two states vulnerable".

A spokesman for the Alexandre Tati-led faction says the organization "welcomes the fact that Angola has come to publicly acknowledge the military attacks on Cabinda" and takes "the opportunity to appeal to the Angolan government to reason." . Xavier Puati Itula adds that "every conflict has a beginning and an end and to reach the end it is necessary to negotiate this end, to do the opposite is to increase the determination of the oppressed." Therefore, Itula concludes that "we, FLEC-FAC and the people of Cabinda are determined to continue military and field activities until the right of the people of Cabinda to self-determination is recognized."

On the other hand, the other faction, the Cabindese Armed Forces (FAC), led by Emmanuel Nzita, considers that the Angolan recognition of the FLEC armed offensive in Cabinda is in fact a recognition of the inability of the Armed Forces to Angolan occupation and proves that Angolans cannot hide their dead soldiers in Cabinda ”. For Commander Maurício Simba, the meetings between Angolans and Congolese are "pure fun, FLEC has never operated, does not operate and will never operate in the Congos". "All FLEC-FAC soldiers are exclusively at FLEC and Cabinda bases, the war is in Cabinda and not in the Congos," said Simba. In his opinion, the government has only one solution "which is to negotiate peace in a serious and credible way with the presence of international observers" and the FLEC "also calls for an end to the climate of repression against the civilian population in Cabinda and that also to end ”.action against the cabindans refugees in the Congos”.