FLEC 4 (Cabinda, Angola)

Frente de Libertação do Estado de Cabinda

Last modified: 2004-01-24 by jarig bakker
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• FLEC 1996 flag
• FLEC symbol
• FLEC long flag
• Flag without quinas

• Angola
• Cabinda

FLEC (Frente de Libertação do Estado de Cabinda, Liberation Front of the State of Cabinda), founded 1996

FLEC symbol

FLEC long flag

by Robert Kee, 25 Feb 2001

This is the flag of the exile government of the Republic of Cabinda. The Portuguese Congo colony was situated between the French Congo (now Republic of the Congo) and the Belgian Congo (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo). In 1920, it was administratively joined to the Portuguese Angola. During the 1950s, as Angola became a "province" of Portugal, people from former Portuguese Congo, now known as Cabinda, created their own liberation movements. Cabinda has huge oil reserves, now exploited by the USA company Chevron. Angola won't let go such a source of revenue...
Joan-Frances Blanc, 27 April 1998

The present flag is a Blue/Yellow/Black tricolor with Simulambuco monument. In February 1885 at Simulambuco was signed a treaty establishing Cabinda as a Portuguese protectorate. A monument was built later, sort of a padroe but much higher. The three arrows are not arrows, but spears, representing the three kingdoms of Kakongo, Loango and Ngoyo.The three spears are actually in front of the Simulambuco monument. In 1996 a new FLEC was created, in the Netherlands. That FLEC replaced the word "Enclave" by the word "State" (Estado). Now the FLEC is the "Frente de Libertação do Estado de Cabinda" (Liberation Front of the State of Cabinda).
Source: < http://www.cabinda.org/chartreang.htm > (link is dead, ed.)
Joan-Frances Blanc, 4 May 1998

The detail of the flag is a representation of a padrao, a column of stone, carved in the upper segment with the portuguese quinas and topped by the cross of Christ, that the portuguese sailors used to carry around to leave at the lands they claimed for Portugal. There are hundreds of these monuments all over the place, and may be one in Cabinda as well.
Jorge Candeias, 29 April 1998

Flag without quinas

Another FLEC-faction, with its seat in Vilvoorde (Belgium), has the same flag as J. F. Blanc reported - but