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Cabinda: Taking Matters into their own Hands.

Cabinda: Taking Matters into their own Hands.

Author: Gabriela Pitra Malonda
Lisboa, 22 de Agosto de 2019

From the occupying Angolan regime, notorious for its corruption, human rights record, and the criminal use of the State and the economy, there is nothing good to expect.


Photo: R.H/P; Photo: Luaty Beirão, via Twitter; Photo: Nichole Sobecki/The Washington Post.

 
Cabinda, unlawfully occupied by Angola since 1975, where more than half of Angola’s oil is produced and from where Angola earns practically all of its foreign exchange, is also the source of over 70 percent of Angola’s national Budget. In oil alone, the invaders of Cabinda get over 35 billion euros per year in royalties, essentially paid by Chevron’s wholly owned subsidiary Cabinda Gulf Oil Company Ltd. (CABGOC). Though the natives of Cabinda do not exceed two million, life expectancy at birth has dropped from 75 years in Portuguese colonial era to 48 years nowadays; child and maternal mortality rates now figure among the highest in the world; rubbish dumped here and there have become children’s last resort; and a hospital bed is for at least four patients.
 
The conclusion is that there is nothing good to expect from the occupying regime, which is notorious for its corruption, its human rights record, and its criminal use of the State and the economy.

 
Hence, the oppressed People of Cabinda are recruiting experienced international lawyers to refer the “legal-political problem” between Cabinda and Angola to an International Court of Justice, and eventually regain their political and economic sovereignty, i.e. to take matters into their own hands.
Please join the oppressed people of Cabinda in their call on Germany, Portugal, and other UN member States to assume their international responsibility in pursuance of Article 35 of the Charter of the United Nations.

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