A leader of Cameroon’s separatist movement , Sisiku Ayuk Tabe and nine of his followers have been given life sentences by a military court in Cameroon capital Yaoundé in the early hours of Tuesday 20th of august 2019.
They were convicted of secession, insurrection, rebellion, destruction of state properties, among other charges. Their lawyers accused the judge of bias and withdrew from the proceedings.
The separatist leaders sang protest songs in court as the sentence was handed down in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
The severity of the sentence has raised fears that the bloody playing out in Cameroon’s Anglophone regions between separatist rebels and military forces will be prolonged and that no ceasefire will be possible.
In January 2018, Ayuk Tabe and nine other separatists were arrested in a hotel in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, allegedly by Nigerian Special Forces. They were then handed over to Cameroon- a move that was ruled illegal by a Nigerian court in March this year.
The defendants refused to recognise the right of the military tribunal in Yaoundé to try them. Their lawyers are meeting to draft an appeal, which has to be filed within 10days.
Felix Agbor Balla,a leading human rights advocate in Cameroon, described the decision as a sham which would cause a lot of anger among Anglophones.
The 2014 anti terrorism law has earlier sparked a wave of criticism and many political analysts had seen this as a means to silent dissent most especially SCNC activists and opposition parties. The law has been enacted to terrorise the people of southern Cameroon and possible killing their freedoms.
The law is also against the fundamental liberties and the rights of the southern Cameroonian people who are clamouring for a complete separation from French Cameroon and with the formation of a new nation known as Ambazonia.
The draft law in its entirety prescribed the death penalty or life imprisonment for persons who carry out any activity which can lead to a general revolt of the population or disturb the normal functioning of the country.
An estimated 2000 Anglophones or southern Cameroonians are being incarcerated all over French Cameroon prisons and the 2014 anti terrorism law applied to their cases.

Written by sheaba Nkwinkeh Zingwa

 

Don’t look behind you anymore.The train is arriving with ground zero already on board.we need you all on board.No one must be left behind .we all must bring out our very best for a fast and safe arrival.
Dear comrades of our revolution,we careless  about anyone ,what really matters now is anyone who can  push us to Buea now rather than later.To do this we must kill all CONSPIRACY and RESURECT COLABORATION in the absence of pure UNITY as our MODUS OPERANDI to END the WAR against our people and win the  FREEDOM  and RESTORATION for which many have  been killed or caged and for which many have suffered and risk having no future again for themselves.
This struggle is at is best when all the activists speak one language.You don’t need to love them or hate them.It does not matter to this struggle righty now because this struggle is at its best speed forward when all the activists used their abilities,brains and breath all focuses against the enemy and not when they are distracted to start defending groups ,governments,positions  ,postings and particular people?
Regardless of the disagreements that could be existing between us ,we have seen constant unity  around the idea of independence for the  former British southern Cameroon and separation from the Republic  of Cameroon,”THE SCNC IDEOLOGY” and not division.
We have only seen one anger emerge against a common enemy  that is killing  ,caging and maiming our people.we have not seen one single individual  attempt to even say  they love  the Republic of Cameroon and that they want to unite with them.We are united by one common suffering as victims of the Republic of Cameroon more than even spoken words can explain and this is what is important in this last minute push than anything else.
Let me make it clear .It is our collective efforts everybody on board this train that will take us to Buea and this can only happen  if the Republic of Cameroon does not stop the war he declare on us and also if we too don’t stop defending  ourselves there by creating a humanitarian crisis that the world cannot ignore  but must step in to arrest .And the international community will know only if all of us  activists in the diaspora go out to exposed the atrocities of the republic of Cameroon. .All the diaspora activists on board this train to exposed the atrocities  of the devilish regime of Mr Paul Biya.Let us all be focus in letting the world know the on going genocide taking place in the Ambazonia land so the perpetrators of this hideous crime should be persecuted.
All the activists in the diaspora get into the drivers sit and activate your activism well well.Anyone who brings you any negative  topic think of the dead of your love ones refuse to be distracted.Our people have given up their lives .their homes  and entire future .Let us not let them down .we have to solidify the faith in ground zero .LETS MAkE THE DIFFERENCE AND FINISH THE JOB. 

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