Dead Cubans 'in freezer ship’

Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34131, 19 April 1976, Page 13

Dead Cubans ' in freezer ship ’

f.’LZ. Press Assn—Copyright) PARIS, April 18. A leader of a liberation movement in the oil-rich Angolan enclave [of Cabinda has said that jthe bodies of about 1500 Cuban soldiers killed byj 'anti-Communist guer-! (rillas in the last six! jmonths are being held in a refrigerated ship off the coast of the Congo, the Associated Press reports. Colonel Jean da Costa, president of the Executive Council for the Liberation of Cabinda, said guerrillas of the Movement for the Liberation of Cabinda were still ! fighting against Cuban and 1 Soviet-armed Marxist Ang-1 olan troops. “Our guerrilla forces now' control the mountains and forests of north-east Ang-; ola,” Mr da Costa said. “We 1 stripped the weapons off more than 3000 enemy’ sol!diers. and we are prepared Ito continue a long guerrilla war. I

“The bodies of around 1500 Cuban soldiers we have killed are now sitting in a refrigerator ship off Black Point (in the neighbouring Republic of Congo).” The liberation movement had the full support of the people, and “The occupation forces of Cuba and Russia [will be defeated.” he said. “Our objective is the expulsion of ail occupation forces, including the Congolese. and the unification cf Angola and its people.”