It’s been almost three years now sine Southern Cameroon was plunged into a political crisis, as a result of lawyers demanding that the integrity of their courts be upheld. This demand was accompanied by peaceful protests, as they called on the government of Cameroon to consider their request. Teachers, from these regions also joined forces with the lawyers to voice their own concerns, about the assimilation of the French system of education into the English regions. Within a few days, university of Buea students also became part of the protests, in order to add weight to the teachers’ concerns and issues. The response of the government was violence, as it dispatched its forces of law and order to arrest, detain, and torture the protesters.
This brutal response led to the killing of some of the students, such as Akum Julius who was killed in Bamenda in December of 2016. In the Buea university campus, female students were forced from their rooms, beaten, and raped, while others were left with life-changing injuries. The violence escalated as more and more Anglophone civilians went on peaceful protests with trade unions demanding that their basic rights be respected, and marginalization against them stopped. As Nelson Mandela once said: ‘To deny people their human rights, is to deny their very humanity,’ these protesters were only asking for what is rightfully theirs.
The government went all out to ensure that the people of Southern Cameroon were silenced. The vicious killings continued unabated, with children and the elderly inclusive. There is the killing of four month old Ngum Martha who was gunned at her parent’s house in the South West region on May 20 this year. Patients were burnt in Mbingo hospital, and villages being torched, forcing the residents to take shelter in the bushes and forests, with some escaping to Nigeria as refugees.
The French Cameroon government continues, to be in denial, of the gross violation of human rights in Southern Cameroon. Those unlawfully imprisoned, live in squalid and inhumane conditions, while experiencing torture, without any hope of justice. School closures as a result of the insecurity, imply that a generation of Southern Cameroonians will lose out on their basic right to education.
As Nelson Mandela, the pioneer freedom fighter in Africa said:’ No single person can liberate a country. You can only liberate a country if you act as a collective.’ I therefore join my fellow Southern Cameroonians under the banner of the SCNC UK to implore the international community, such as the United Kingdom, the European Union, the United States of America , and the African Union to intervene in this crisis as we the people of Southern Cameroon fight for our independence from Southern Cameroon.

Sirri A Fondo

It is indeed grievous that up till now the World still remains silence with the ongoing genocide in the English Speaking Region of Cameroon. Where are the peace makers in the world? Are the UN and other united bodies claiming that they are not seeing what is going on in Anglophone Region of Cameroon? Where thousands of civilians homes have been razed, hundreds of villages has been deserted, thousands of people killed, millions of people on exile, hundreds of thousands of people hiding in bushes and more than 700,000 refugees in Nigeria and other neighbouring countries.
For long will the people of Southern Cameroons / Ambazonia suffer before the UN and International Community come with aid or has there not been more than enough bloodshed?
Are the UN and International Community waiting for an open war and for the entire Anglophone Region is totally wiped out before coming with aid?
Why the silence UN and International Community? Are you people waiting for a Second Rwanda to occur in Southern Cameroons / Ambazonia before coming with aid?
We the people of Southern Cameroons / Ambazonia are asking the UN and International Community to break silence and say something about the ongoing genocide in English Speaking Regions of Cameroon.
We the people of Southern Cameroons /Ambazonia are pleading with the UN and International Community to come with aid before the entire nation is totally wiped out.

Romanus Chomabeyabe Nangia

 

One would have thought that Biya’s la republique government will be brave enough to sit and dialogue.Instead the stubborn president does not see the need to dialogue.Our people are still being brutally killed. I have been away from this space for a while now. There comes a time in life whereby one has to sit back and reflect. My point of reflexion all this while was to come to terms with the extent at which Biya’s inhumane treatment of our families in Cameroon has attained. People always tell you when you lose a loved one that ’my condolences to you and your family’.One will never know the depth of that pain called death unless it hits you.I had the misfortune of being informed via facebook of the mishaps of 26th April in Ikata.Where some young men and others were being gunned down by the military and their accomodation burned to ashes.While watching the video,i realised that one of the victims was my cousin that has been running away from la republic because of his activities as an amba fighter.For months i believed he was making his way to Nigeria with the other refugees.But,it emerged that,he has been in hidings in Ikata.The military tracked him and others down and were shooting at everyone around.They went as far as setting the house on fire.What cruelty.Why would a government treat its own civilians like that? I couldn’t believe it when i saw him lying lifeless,in one of the shorts that i brought from Primark for him.How does one come to terms with this? My poor grandma and two cousins hiding in bushes just because Biya’s government rendered them homeless.How do you even tell your story.It hurts really bad what Biya’s government is doing to the people of Southern Cameroon,especially young boys.I pray one day when Biya is called to pay for his crimes i will be there to give my testimony.I have seen all the many faces of ‘la Republique’s’ cruelty and barbaric habits.But i am still standing stronger than before.One day we are going to crush that worm that is causing us a lot of pain and discomfort. I can only but pray for the young mother whose four months old baby was shot in Muyuka on the 22nd May.What can one even say of this? It is absurd.A four months old baby! Why?What can make up for the pain this mother is feeling? It is unbearable Our SCNC UK president just released a video on youtube about our upcoming convention in London in June.Working together is the only thing that gives all of us activists an upper hand.United we stand ,divided we fall.So let us come out in our numbers and tell Biya that,he can kill our brothers,sisters,mothers,he can make them homeless but WE will never stop fighting. Ambazonians forward ever and backward never.God bless us all.

Winih M Tonga

BREAKING NEWS from Biya ‘s worsening incapacitated state of delusional imagination characterized by holding idiosyncratic beliefs of commiting war cimes against humanity and genocides when Biya ordered Cameroon Army (BIR)to burn down churches “Hospitals. Schools. Villages.looted shops.banks.credit unions places of business and other valuable properties,killing innocent civilians in their thousands,thousands internally and externally displaced living in bushes and in refugee camps under unspeakable humanitarian conditions with the intention to force southern Cameroon to be part of republic of Cameroon .Paul Biya declared war on the southern Cameroon people calling us terrorists using the BIR ON THE PEOPLE..It’s worthy to note that this BIR is a special squad trained to fight terrorism in the lake chad basin.That is what he decided to use to force us to stay in an illegal marriage..Paul Biya thought his army was going to crush the Southern Cameroon people within one or two weeks .He failed to understand that no army can defeat a people. TWO CUBES OF SUGAR HAS REFUSE TO DISSOLVE.
Our leaders were arrested from Nigeria and tried in the military court in Yaounde.Our children arrested from Southern Cameroon and taken to be tried in the French military court .Is this HYPOCRISY or STUPIDITY. Today the Cameroon government is preaching disarmament. Who is deceiving who now.If peaceful civilians protesting unarmed you arrest some.kill some and bury some in mass graves others just dissappeared what will be the faith of those who will lay down arms voluntarily. “OF Course the answer us obvious?”Restoration forces dont fall to cheap propaganda. TODAY the government of Cameroon can build rehabilitation centers .so this government really knew what can be done to occupy youths who had gone through traumatic experience. Again is this HYPOCRISY or STUPIDITY
One thing i am quite sure of is that our history has come to the lamp light of the world. NO ONE CAN FORCE US AGAIN TO LIVE IN BONDAGE.OUR STATE HAS BEEN RESTORED BUEA IS OUR ULTIMATE GOAL.LONG LIVE THE FERDERAL REPUBLIC OF AMBAZONIA

ELECTA SHALO MANYIMUCHUA

In 1961, Ahidjo and John Ngu Foncha signed an agreement which rejected Cameroon’s membership into the Commonwealth of Nations. Their reasons were not disclosed.
However in the 1980’s the situation changed because Anglophone Cameroonians increasingly demanded the admission of Cameroon into the gentleman club- as the commonwealth is fondly called.
The desire for the Anglophone Cameroonians to be admitted into the club stem from the fact that Cameroon was already a member of the Francophonie.
However, despite the pressure from Anglophones to be admitted into the Commonwealth, the gentleman club gave a number of conditions which were supposed to fall in line with the Harare Declaration of1961.
Worthy to note that the Harare declaration was to promote and protect the following core values;
1 Democracy and democratic process and institutions which unanimously reflect the national interest.
2 .The rule of law and absolute independence of the judiciary from the other arms of the government.
3. Honest and just government.
4. Fundamental human rights ,which include equal rights and equal opportunities for all citizens.
After accepting the above preconditions, Cameroon was admitted as the 52nd member of commonwealth on November 1995.
The question now by many in 24 years after admitted into commonwealth, is Cameroon meeting with the aspirations and preconditions of admission in the gentleman club?
Cameroon’s position in the commonwealth is questionable in regards to the southern Cameroon crisis. Many are of the opinion that Cameroon should be dismissed from the gentleman’s club for violating all the fundamental principles binding the organisation.
Cameroon’s human right situation on the southern Cameroon crisis is very dirty as there have been appalling and trending videos of human right abuse circulating online on social media purportedly orchestrated by Cameroon armed forces on peaceful civilian population in the English regions of Cameroon.
Cameroon soldiers have been carrying out extra-judicial and targeted killings on the civilian population of the English regions and also the scorch earth policy of burning civilian houses. More than 250 villages have been completely razed down to ashes by the Cameroon soldiers in the English regions of Cameroon.
Further there is the absence of freedom of speech and association in Cameroon as the government is ready the clammed down on any one who dare to question the dictatorial regime of President Paul Biya.
The million dollar question we should be asking Patricia Scotland (secretary general of commonwealth) is why Cameroon is still a member of the gentleman’s club after committing atrocities in the southern Cameroons?
By Daniel Mengot Besong

SCNC activist UK

The Anglophone crisis came to light in October 2016 when Anglophone lawyers and teachers led protests demanding the integrity of their professional institutions to be protected but government of La Republique du Cameroun responded by arresting, detaining and torturing protesters. 

In January 2017, denizens from the Southern and Northern Zones of Southern Cameroons, had intensified their fight against injustice because they were and are still treated like second class citizens in their country through discrimination, marginalization and annexation by our neighbours La Republique Du Cameroun since 1961.   The Southern and Northern zones of Southern Cameroons were indeed in a ghost era. The people of Southern Cameroons have had enough, Southern Cameroonians have made efforts for this union between La Republique du Cameroon and Southern Cameroons to work but to no avail, instead we were marginalized, our daughters, sisters and mothers raped, our villages burn, our farms destroyed, lawyers and teachers abducted, making us live in fear,  telling us that Cameroon is one and indivisible. But groups such as the Southern Cameroons National Council ( SCNC ) and Cameroon Anglophone Civil Society Consortium ( CACSC ) which are the voice of the people, the people’s guide and hope were big threat to the government of La Republique du Cameroun ( LRC ) as Southern Cameroonians start demanding for their independence to be restored, this put fear on the La Republique du Cameroun  , instead of solving the problems they acted by imposing a ban on SCNC AND CACSC on the 17th of January 2017.

January 2017,   Camerounese state broadcaster during its 5:00pm (17h:00) announced (in breaking news) that the Cameroon Anglophone Civil Society Consortium (CACSC aka the Consortium) and Southern Cameroons National Council (SCNC) have been disbanded

According to the news presenter, the Ministry of Administration and Territorial Integration (MINADT), is ordering the cease-from-existence of the SCNC and The Consortium. The reasons attributed to the banning were that, the two groups are fuelling hate and terrorist tendencies in Southern Cameroons. 

Rene Emmanuel Sadi, The Former Minister of Territorial Administration and Decentralisation, Now minister of communication who issued the ban, noted in the Ban documents as follows ; 

1) The groups  SCNC and CACSC ( The Consortium ) “are declared null and void for their purpose and activities which are contrary to the Constitution and liable to jeopardize the security of the state, territorial integrity, national unity and national integration.”

2) All activities, meetings and demonstrations initiated or promoted by the SCNC and CACSC , any other related groups with similar objectives or by anyone partisan to these groups, are hereby prohibited all over the national territory

3) Defaulties of the prohibited order referred to in article 2 cited  above , shall be liable to legal proceedings in conformity with the law and regulations in force. 

4) The Regional Governors, Senior divisional officers and Sun divisional officers are responsible for the strict application of this order which shall be registered and published according to the procedure of urgency 

Everyone was talking about the breaking news. Social Media was at its highest peak regarding this Ban. 

Though it was a bitter pill to swallow, and another salt added to the injury of the already aggrieved Southern Cameroons population when news broke out that Barrister Felix Nkongho Agbor Balla, Leader of the Consortium, alongside, Dr. Fontem Neba, Secretary General of the Consortium, have both been arrested. The battle line had been drawn. The La Republique du Cameroun government as an Oppressor instead of dialogues with Southern Cameroons leaders to look for a way forward they continue shooting and arresting our people, the worries of our teachers and lawyers were ignored and  the government of La Republique du Cameroun (LRC), ordered Internet shutdown in the two Anglophone regions

SCNC is a group advocating for self determination  aiming at obtaining independence for the former British Southern Cameroons. It is a non violent and a non political group of activists with its motto; ” The Force of Argument Not The Argument Of Force” 

The Cameroonian government has deemed the SCNC illegal. The “harassment” of SCNC members and indicates that they are denied the right to “freedom of association.  La Republique government refused to grant the SCNC permission to hold rallies and meetings thus meetings in both public and private properties are prohibited, since 2013 there have been constant disruption of SCNC meetings by La Republique authorities. However when organizations pressed La Republique government on complaints by SCNC members that they were constantly harassed, arrested, detained and prosecuted for holding meetings, the authorities responded that this was because the party was not legally constituted or recognized, how pathetic does that sound giving that La Republique were  refusing at first the harassment, arrests, detaining and prosecution of SCNC members

 

Amnesty International reports that, in its decision adopted during its 45th Ordinary Session held in Banjul, Gambia, in May 2009, the [African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights] found that the government of Cameroon had violated a number of the Articles of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights in the actions it took against SCNC’s members. The Commission found that the government of Cameroon had violated Article 2 (discrimination against people of Southern Cameroon), Article 4 (violation of the right to life during violent suppression of peaceful demonstrations), Article 5 (torture), Article 7 (right to a fair trial within reasonable time), Article 11 (right to assemble freely), Article 19 (right to equality of all people) and Article 26 (duty to guarantee the independence of the courts). The Commission also concluded that Cameroon had violated Article 1 of the ACHPR by failing to “adopt adequate measures to give effect to the provisions of the African Charter.” (Jan. 2013, 22)

Several sources report arrests and/or  mistreatment of SCNC members and activists

> On 8 August 2013, the SCNC reported the arrest and detention of 83 SCNC activists at a meeting, and indicated that the house in which the meeting was held was searched and “ransacked” (SCNC 8 Aug. 2013). 

>On 2 August 2013, over 70 SCNC members were arrested by gendarmes and police forces while attending a meeting in Kumbo, and were “detained and tortured”

>In February 2011, La Republique  authorities arrested Chief Ayamba Ette Otun and other SCNC members, they were arrested for “circulating tracts calling for the independence of Southern Cameroons and warning the government against the mistreatment of Southern Cameroonians”  

>On 1 October 2012, in Buea, SCNC leaders and activists were “brutalized” during a mass in a Catholic church and more than 100 SCNC members were arrested that day 

>Amnesty International (AI) reports “judicial harassment” of SCNC members (Jan. 2013, 23), including the trial of “several dozen” SCNC members “arrested in 2008 and charged with holding illegal meetings and failing to produce identity cards”  AI says that “the accused had appeared in court on more than 30 occasions but the trial was adjourned each time because of the failure of the prosecution to present witnesses or the absence of court officials, including presiding judges”.  

>In May 2007, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) advised that an individual could be served with a court summons, known in Cameroon as a Convocation, if found to be carrying a SCNC membership card. The DFAT report also States that it is likely that the La Republique government maintain a list of individuals wanted for arrest due to their SCNC membership as opposed to their position within the SCNC ( https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/para/scnc.htm)

>The US Department Of State on the Human Rights Practices 2008 – Cameroon reports that SCNC is illegal and that individuals found to be participating in SCNC meetings have been arrested. The report states that ” during the year security forces preemptively arrested approximately 40 leaders, members and supporters of SCNC to prevent them from participating in unauthorized political meetings “. ( https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/para/scnc.htm)

 

> Jacques Franquin , a representative of United Nation High Commission For Refugees ( UNHCR ) in Cameroon stated that in 2004 that SCNC members had faced harassment and inhuman treatment by the police. 

>Julius Sisiku Ayuk Tabe, was abducted in neighbouring Nigeria with the complicity of the Nigerian government and extradited to Cameroon in January 2018 along with 46 others and held incommunicado for months 

The La Republique govrnment of Cameroun has gone as far as threatening Cable TV providers. They have been told they will be sanctioned if they do not stop broadcasting the South Africa-based channel, Southern Cameroons Broadcasting Corporation (SCBC)

The SCNC, air programmes about the history and culture of the Anglophone region, as well as interviews with exiled lawyers and documentaries about human rights abuses in Cameroon.  The former communications Minister Issa Tchiroma accused the channel of broadcasting seditious and hateful programmes, adding that it is being used as propaganda tool for an outlawed political movement. The government of La Republique has tried and failed to persuade the South African authorities to stop SCBC broadcasts, unfortunately for  La Republique government,  South Africa is not like the corrupt government of President Buhari of Nigeria who expedited Southern Cameroons leaders who were asylum seekers unlawfully into La Republique du Cameroun where they were detained incommunicado for several months

We have battled the injustice force upon us by France and  LRC for 56 years, so if the international Community thinks we are now ready to let go at this juncture, it is mistaken. If the UN, EU, Commonwealth, AU and British governments want to stop a bloodbath in Southern Cameroon’s then THE TIME IS NOW, not tomorrow. Every one of us , 8 million Ambazonians will be killed before our territory will be made part of Cameroun again.

 This our Generation of Southern Cameroonians; We are ready to correct the mistake of our forefathers.  We are the Generation of “The Coffin Revolution” of Mancho Bibixy . We are the “Never Again Generation” ( Bullets versus Social Media) of Mark Bareta . We are the Generation of “The Wirba Force” (Honorable Wirba Joseph) 

 WE WILL “LIVE FREE OR DIE”

         

Written By SCNC Activist Siencheu Achille Lele

The former British Southern Cameroon known to the Republic of Cameroon as the southwest and the northwest regions or better still as AGLOPHONES, known to the Ambazonians as the northern and the southern zones was once an Independent state with a well defined boundaries,its parliament and everything that goes with statehood.with Buea as its capital.she was the first country to practice democracy in Africa.There was a smooth transition of power from E.N Endeley who was the first prime minister to John Ngu Forcha.What happened in 1961 that this freedom was taken away from us…….?

It was claimed that we obtained independence by ‘joining “the Republic of Cameroon on the 1st of October 1961.Wheras it was recolonization.Where is the legal documents binding these two countries together?What happened to the terms of the agreement.What we got out of this  relationship was  total assimilation.

Today we are completely assimilated by the Biya regime.Our judiciary and educational systems  destroyed.Our culture erased.Everything was based on falsehood.

Our identity today is that of Bribery and corruption, alcoholism ,liars ,laziness  dishonesty.Gros violation of human rights..we say no to this.

When we as a people decided to come out to say we have had enough of this go back to the gentleman agreement  you had we our parents what happened.?Mr Biya declared war on us in December 2017.And since then he has been killing our people destroying our properties  rapping our girls and with thousands of refugees in neighbouring Nigeria.Ghana and thousands Internally displaced with marjority of our people staying in the bushes with no access to health care

How then can we cohabit again with those who treat us as slaves.

Bearing in mind  that we are very much aware of who we are  we are resisting any form of oppression . humiliation.carnage from our colonial master the Republic of Cameroon.

I am determined  to be part of the people who must bring back our dignity and glory. Long live the people of Southern Cameroon.We must overcome.

A Cry for Help.
Help, Help ,Help.My house is on fire.PLease ,Please, don’t rape me.Stop,Stop i don’t want
anymore beatings.Mother i am hungry and cold.I want to go home! Neighbours,Neighbours
come ohhh my son has been killed! My husband has been shot ohhhh.Help me! This is what
La Republique government is subjecting the people of Southern Cameroon to.Now,tell me.
What would you do if something terrible were to happen to you,your family and your future?
Would you sit back and be destroyed,or,would you stand up and fight back with every
strength you have left in you? Well,i am a proud Ambazonian activist and i will fight for a
better tomorrow for our beloved Southern Cameroon.Fight till our beloved and blessed land
is free.Enough is enough.
People thing Cameroon is rich in raw materials.The truth is,this richness in raw materials is
from Ambaland.La Republique has nothing to offer.That is,by the way.
I come from the North west region of Cameroon precisely Ngungetunja in the Mezam
division of Cameroon.This area, is one of the two regions of Southern Cameroon.My people
have been killed and are still being killed in their homes,my fellow sisters are being raped
indiscriminately,homes of our poor mothers,grandmothers are being burnt.Houses that were
built from farm work,selling foodstuff in Ndop market and soya business. The corrupt
government of La Republique heartlessly burnt these houses to ashes.Oh,what did we,the
people of Southern Cameroon,these poor mothers do to deserve such cruelty?You left our
people and our families hopeless and homeless,our land not habitable.
The president of La Republic of Cameroon has made it his business to ensure that the
killings dont stop.To him,the people will give up the revolution.I can assure you
Mr.president,that, that will be a long wait.It is rather unfortunate that new families keep
weeping over their dead loved ones and nothing has still been done.People are meant to
feel safe in their homes and the contrary here is true.The streets are far from being safe,the
forests and bushes also.
My people have become prisoners on their own lands.The international bodies have
remained quiet to our cry.Their newsrooms have never mentioned none of the despicable
acts of inhumanity and barbarism that are happening in Southern Cameroon.Be mindful of
the fact that, Cameroon has English as its official language because Britain was one of its
colonial masters.We have carried out a series of protests asking the commonwealth to help
us, our people back home and to safeguard our land..All we get are just promises.WE have
written countless petitions to the UK government to intervene in our plight but again all we
got and still getting are just words on white sheets of paper.In England,such killings and
cruelty carried out on the people of Ambazonia are considered ‘ terrorists attacks ‘.
La Republique government is carrying out terrorist acts on the people of Southern
Cameroons.This because Southern Cameroonians have had enough from the government
of Cameroon.For years now,we have been marginalised,we go to the best universities yet
we need and have to bribe our way into government recruitments and white collar jobs.When
you walk into a government office in La Republique capital,you are compelled to speak
French Language.When you apply for a job,just from the name on your application, you are
being branded ’anglo-fou’ and that application of yours will be rejected instantly.People of
who succeed in getting good jobs or white collar jobs have either changed their names to
Atangana or Onana,or have a La republique godfather somewhere,or has sold their properties to afford to bribe for a job! How pathetic! Is that a system that one has to continue
live with? NO.Does La Republique government think that a people can be subjected to this
and live like this forever? I DO NOT THINK SO.We must fight as enough is enough.We
raised our voices to call for separation and independence from such a decay system,we are
being treated and branded terrorist,separationist.We are Ambazonians the new rising
Nation.We will fight till our statehood is restored. We have risen to fall no more.Our voices
will be and must be heard.Forward ever backward never.It is my right to fight against bad
oppression and discrimination and i will not stop exercising this right. The international
bodies are pretending that everything is under control.But i tell you,Southern Cameroon is in
chaos.We need to restore our statehood,build our ambaland with resources that La
republique is milking from our land.We need to get treaties signed,we need another
referandum.La republique has failed us so,it is very logical that we the Ambazonians want a
Divorce from them. Yes, our forefathers were cargouled and deceived into Unification back
in the 1960’s.But the truth is, that Union is not and has never worked. We want a divorce bill
and as a minority we need the international bodies to step up their games and let La
Republique grant us our Freedom.We will not stop the protest.Our voices will be heard. ‘A
child that says the mother will not sleep at night,he too will also not sleep!’ The struggle
continues.All for one,one for all.History will remember us freedom fighters of Ambazonia.
From the Ndop plain

Winih M T

The Cameroonian authorities must immediately and unconditionally release all arrested both in the north west and South West regions of Cameroon, not forgetting Mr Ayuk Tabe Julius and his entire cabinet who were also illegally adopted and deported from Nigeria earlier this year, and lift the ban imposed on SCNC ( Southen Cameroons National Council).

On 17 January the Minister of Territorial Administration banned the activities of the Southern Cameroon National Council (SCNC) and the Cameroon Anglophone Civil Society Consortium (CACSC). The president of the CACSC, Barrister Nkongho Felix Agbor-Balla, and its Secretary General, Dr. Fontem Aforteka’a Neba, were arrested, sparking protests in the southwest city of Buea.

On the same day both Agbor-Balla and Dr. Fontem Neba had signed a statement calling for protest activities to be carried out without violence.

“These two men have been arrested solely for the peaceful exercise of their right to freedom of expression. This flagrant disregard for basic rights risks inflaming an already tense situation in the English-speaking region of the country and is clearly an attempt to muzzle dissent,” said Ilaria Allegrozzi, Amnesty International Central Africa Researcher.

According to the Minister of Territorial Administration, “all activities, meetings and demonstrations initiated or promoted by the Southern Cameroons National Council (SCNC), the Cameroon Anglophone Civil Society Consortium (CACSC), any other related groups with similar objectives or by anyone partisan to these groups, are hereby prohibited all over the national territory”.

The government has accused the two groups of supporting a series of demonstrations that began in late October 2016 across several cities in the English-speaking region of Cameroon. The protesters were calling, among other things, for an end to the use of French in courts and schools. These protest were met with fierce reactions from the brutal and dictatorial regime of President Paul Biya resulting to many deaths on the side of innoncent civilians.

“This worrying pattern of arbitrary arrests, detention and harassment of civil society members is entirely at odds with the international human rights law and standards that Cameroon has committed to uphold,” said Ilaria Allegrozzi.

We have on our part in the diaspora, taken upon ourselves to resist the brutal and dictatorial regime of President Paul Biya by protesting and carring out online petitions to call the attention of the inter National community to look for measures of bringing this war to an end and subsequently calling on the United nations to effect a referendum giving the people of Southern Cameroons the choice to decide their fate. Done by Comrade Winifred Nenkaa Ndomo