Tuesday, 12 January 2010

Juged in a cinema shooted in a school

These are words taken from a caption below a memorial drawing of the heroes of Cabinda as honoured by their living.It is on a modest website of the Republic of Cabinda.To those who have just woken up Cabinda is where the Togo football team were shot at by gunman claimed by an organisation calling itself FLEC.This same organisation is highly praised with some words viva F.L.E.C following the cursor whenever it moves on the site.

It is totally unacceptable that a gun-battle would derail the Africa Cup of Nations .If you ask me that counts for cowardice.However think the fighters of Cabinda made one point;that the world should know that they are there.The African Union has really failed to tackle the issue of Cabinda fairly.The Cabinda situation represents closely what African nations fought for for many years.Cabind is not Angola so much that I do not understand why Congo or DRC have not claimed it too.

The AU has already rejected the Cabinda government in exile and it is seen as their way of limiting the threat of other regions following suit elsewhere.I would understand their concern if there were many exclaves in the continent.I am not aware of many.The closest we have to an exclave in Southern Africa is Kaprivi strip another of Africa's possible future problems.Why no one is doing anything more than what happened in the 1990's is just because there is no oil yet,in the Kaprivi.Oil, it ends il like evil and its probably no coincidence.

When asked about terrorism in Africa on BBC some years ago,i could not have predicted FLEC being involved in a so called terrorist attack.All I spoke of was the Somalia and Sudan regions.Little did I know that one day ,just one day star footballers from the motherland would be in tears having survived African terrorists.But beside the attack FLEC have a point?

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