STANDING UP TO OPPRESSION by Siencheu Achille LELE
The people of Southern Cameroons have a future and this future lies entirely in their hands. It lies in their collective will and desire to fight oppression and liberate themselves. With this will and desire , we the people of Southern Cameroons can always get whatever we want and we will always be stronger than any hatefulness, abusiveness or cruelty the oppressors ( La Republique du Cameroun government ) continue to bring up against us .
The people of Southern Cameroons have been undoubtedly visited with unacceptable injustices, exploited and violently oppressed. We have been dehumanized and we are at a point where our lost humanity should be wrestled back from La Republique du Cameroun’s (LRC) violent hands.
The people of southern Cameroons ( Ambazonians ) are taking responsibility into their collective hands, to fight for their freedom. We know taking responsibility to fight for freedom is never about leaders, it is always first and foremost, about the people. Thus the reason why when LRC government unlawfully arrested and extradited our leaders Sisiku Ayuk Tabe and Co. From Nigeria to Cameroon, the people of Southern Cameroons did not stop fighting the oppressors (LRC) . Instead our demands for independence intensify both at home and abroad. LRC president Paul Biya declare War on Southern Cameroonians, our women are rape, our houses and hospital burn down, our farm destroy, our families separated and some are refugees but all these atrocities did not make us bend on our knees because we know where we come from and where we are going, which is our independent and it is very vital. For over 50 years of marginalization, exploitation and discrimination, now that we are standing firm we can not let them dehumanized us again without resisting.
The LRC government abducted Southern Cameroonians, militarized our street, quelled protests, shutdown our internet but we responded with Ghost Towns and schools were shut down. Abroad we storm Cameroun Embassy with placards and coffins while singing our National anthem and hosting our Flags, then we go viral on Facebook and Twitter etc with every vital piece of information that exposes the human right abuses committed by the military of the regime of Paul Biya. We have decided to fight till the last man standing. The oppressors control and fool their people with Sardines ( Les Sardinal) during presidential elections October 2018 but Southern Cameroonians don’t live on sardines, We hold our leaders accountable, our DNA is make of freedom and resistance, we fight for our future because we are people with Milk and honey.
Southern Cameroonians are ready, We are strong, we stand firm and we shall continue to stand for very long, to acquire our freedom. Also we are aware that “Freedom is acquired by conquest, not by gift. It must be pursued constantly and responsibly. No people ever had freedom as a gift from their oppressors, so let’s not be deceived by the oppressor’s idea of giving us one thing ( bilingualism) or the other ( disarmament ) in order to break our resolve. Let’s stand up and conquer our Freedom as we rightfully deserve to. In a determined oneness never seen before. We have been so dehumanized and humiliated that we must seize our historical moment and the momentum raised by various actors (such as Southern Cameroons National Council, Cameroon Anglophone Civil Society Consortium, Southern Cameroons Community UK, BaretaNews by Mark Bareta, Wirba Force by Hon. Wirba Joseph, Coffin Revolution of Mancho Bibixy etc ) in this freedom struggle. The people’s time is now and history awaits us to write our story in gold and diamond by seizing our long confiscated freedom to reach our beautiful Capital Buea and enjoy our land of milk and honey.