FLEC Rebels… if Google Is To Be Believed
Remember that attack by the Angolan rebels last Friday? Well, that was a mistake. The attack wasn’t. Just the victims.
According to a spokesman for the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda (which leaves them with the wussiest sounding acronym for a bunch of paramilitaries armed to the teeth: the FLEC) they were only trying to kill other Angolans.
So, yeah, Togo, their bad.
Says a mouthpiece for the FLEC: “This attack was not aimed at the Togolese players but at the Angolan forces at the head of the convoy. So it was pure chance that the gunfire hit the players. We don’t have anything to do with the Togolese and we present our condolences to the African families and the Togo government. We are fighting for the total liberation of Cabinda.”
Dudes, bummer. Your bus was totally just wrong place, wrong time. Sorry, brah.
Recapping the fallout: Three were dead and at least six others injured. Togo wanted to continue on, but its government ordered the players home for three days of mourning. Then the country wanted the team allowed back in the Cup of Nations but the CAF in kind of a dick move said, “No. You can’t come back.” And all because the FLEC can’t properly identify the right bus to shoot up. Nice going, guys.
Even if they are to be believed, it’s a bit late. No sane person probably gives a s**t about their cause and if anything wants the Enclave of Cabinda to suffer some horrible atrocities under some unjust autocratic rule as a result of the FLEC screwing up an otherwise perfectly good continental championship tournament. Glad you guys usurped some international headlines, but hardly anybody knew about your political agenda before Friday, and just because they know now, doesn’t mean they are sympathetic.
Anyway, the tournament kicked off on schedule yesterday with a 4-4 draw between Angola and Mali. Today, Malawi shocked World Cup-bound Algeria 3-0 and Burkina Faso held the Ivorian Drogbas 0-0.
It’s an exclave not an enclave.
This is infuriating and sad…and more infuriating, but I loled @ “Ivorian Drogbas” so thank you for that.
TFA: Then they are the ones who are wrong about the very piece of whatever they are killing for. I’m just pulling from their own acronym.
Was an enclave in 1963 when the group was formed. It is now an exclave.
And what better way to show you deserve independence than to shoot up a bus of footballers. I must have missed the part where they explain how shooting the lead of part of Togo’s convoy makes this okay.
To be fair, the US Americans kicked off their bid for independence by shooting up the British hoop & stick team.