The history of our people can never be hidden from the rest of the world . The Southern Cameroons, Ambazonia was one of the first democratic autonomous Trust Territory, under the trusteeship of Great Britain, from 1922 – 1946, from the League of Nations.

Our group of MPS walked out of the Enugu House of Assembly in 1953 to create the Southern Cameroons house of Assembly in Buea from 1954- 1959, where two successive democratic governments reigned with two Prime ministers, without any conflict.

This alone qualifies The Southern Cameroons, under UNGA ( United Nations General Assembly) Resolution 1514 , article 76 B, to be restored as an Independent state.

Where as, French Cameroon also qualified under the same UNGA resolution 1514, article

76 B and they had their Independence from France on the 1st January 1960. Where did joining French Cameroon come from, when we had same factors as French Cameroon and governing ourselves with a good economy, education and culture?

Asking our rights today to be restored as an Independent state, is acceptable under the 1951 Convention for The human and people rights to belong and for self determination.

The decolonisation process of the Southern Cameroons is still questionable and the United Nations has every answer to these questions.

We are being killed today. Hundreds of thousands of our children out of school for the fifth year in a roll. More than 400 of villages burnt and destroyed by French Cameroon military. Thousands arrested and detained in LRC jail’s without judgement. More than 18000 innocent civilians killed by French Cameroon military.

We the people of Ambazonians, continue to tell the International Community to arrest this situation now and complete the decolonisation process, abandoned by Great Britain and the United Nations in 1961, therefore giving our Separate country from French Cameroon.

We are two distinct people with different cultures that cannot continue to live together in the scammed, called one and indivisible Cameroon. The 60 year experience in this illegal union, has proven to be negative. The lost Independence of the Southern Cameroons, Ambazonia must be restored now. This is the freedom we need and nothing less.

By: Betsy Azwe Chi, epse Ken

SCNC OUR HISTORY AND THE TRUTH OF TIME

The United Nations organised a plebiscite in the region on 11 February 1961 which put two alternatives to the people: union with Nigeria or union with Cameroon. The third option, independence, was opposed by the British representative to the UN Trusteeship Council, Sir Andrew Cohen, and as a result was not listed. In the plebiscite, 60% of voters in the Northern Cameroons voted for union with Nigeria, while 70% of voters in the Southern Cameroons opted for union with Cameroon. The results owed partly to a fear of domination by much larger Nigeria Endeley was defeated in elections on 1 February 1959 by John Ngu Foncha

Southern Cameroons federated with Cameroon on 1 October 1961 as “West Cameroon”, with its own prime minister. However, the English-speaking peoples of the Southern Cameroons did not believe that they were fairly treated by the 80% majority French-speaking government of the country. Then-president Ahmadou Ahidjo feared that Southern Cameroons would secede from the union, taking its natural resources with it. Following a French Cameroon unilateral referendum on 20 May 1972, a new constitution was adopted in Cameroon which replaced the federal state with a unitary state, and also gave more power to the president. Southern Cameroons lost its autonomous status and became the Northwest Region and the Southwest Region of the Republic of Cameroon. Pro-independence groups claimed that this violated the constitution, as the majority of deputies from West Cameroon had not consented to legitimize the constitutional changes.

In 1993, representatives of Anglophone groups convened the first All Anglophone Conference (AAC1) in Buea. The conference issued the “Buea Declaration”, which called for constitutional amendments to restore the 1961 federation. This was followed by the second All Anglophone Conference (AAC2) in Bamenda in 1994. This conference issued the “Bamenda Declaration”, which stated that if the federal state was not restored within a reasonable time, Southern Cameroons would declare its independence. The AAC was renamed the Southern Cameroons Peoples Conference (SCPC), and later the Southern Cameroons Peoples Organisation (SCAPO), with the Southern Cameroons National Council (SCNC) as the executive governing body. . The SCNC sent a delegation, led by John Foncha, to the United Nations, which was received on 1 June 1995 and presented a petition against the ‘annexation’ of the Southern Cameroons by French Cameroon. This was followed by a signature referendum the same year, which the organisers claim produced a 99% vote in favour of independence with 315,000 people voting.

SCNC activities were routinely disrupted by police. On 23 March 1997, about ten people were killed in a raid on a SCNC camp in Bamenda. The police arrested between 200 and 300 SCNC supporters. On 1 October 1999, militants took over Radio Buea to proclaim the independence of Southern Cameroons, but failed to do so before security forces intervened. The leadership and many members of the SCNC were subsequently arrested.

After clashes with the police, the SCNC was officially declared illegal by the Cameroonian authorities in 2001. The 2012 Amnesty International Report on Cameroon found that the security forces continue to disrupt SCNC activities and arresting it leaders.since the start of the angophone crisis in 2016 SCNC has been in four front of the movement fighting for the indepence for the people southern cameroon with our leaders in jail we shall never give up our strugle for indepence,our voices will not be silence with favour from God almithy we achieve our indepence.

ROYCE BUH

THE SOVEREIGN POWER OF THE PEOPLE
WHAT YOUR MIND MUST KEEP TODAY IS THAT SOVEREIGN POWER AND THE EXERCISE THEREOF BELONGS TO YOU THE PEOPLE.

This write up aims at enlightening you about your constitutional right of national sovereign power under which power belongs to you unless you elect to give it up yo someone through free and fair elections. Five points what elections can do and ten points what elections can not do for you as a SOUTHERN CAMEROONIAN.
1) WHO OWNS SOVEREIGN POWER.
As a matter of the highest law of the land Article 2(1) of the 1972 Cameroonian constitution as revised in 2008 provides that ‘NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY SHALL BE VESTED IN THE PEOPLE.” The constitution does not state that national sovereignty belongs to the President ,the governors the DOs the police or the military officers.
The Cameroon constitution further provides that sovereign power can only be exercised by the people “through an elected president ,members of the parliament or by way of referendum. ”
Hence you must keep it mind that everyday you go to sleep at night and wake up alive in the morning that no President or member of the parliament in Cameroon has the right to exercise SOVEREIGN POWER over you unless you have elected him to to exercise such power on your behalf as provided under Article 2(2)of the constitution,which states that,the authorities responsible for the management of the state shall derive their powers from the people through elections
The interpretation of this article is that by refusing to Participate in the 2018 elections and the 2019 fake parliamentary senatorial and council elections ,the people of Southern Cameroon elected to retained and keep their SOVEREIGN POWER to themselves

Hence no individual the so call mayor senator or parliamentarian from the SOUTHERN Cameroon origin to is legally or constitutionally qualified to represent the people and exercise sovereign power on their behalf .Southern Cameroonians you have the right to stop any one playing this DIRTY ROLE. No local administrators( SDOs DOs civil and military personnels)appointed by the President Biya who was never elected by the people in 2018 as confirmed by other opposition leaders has legal authority to exercise sovereign power of the people. Consequently what is happening today in SOUTHERN CAMEROON IS ANARCHY AGAINST THE PROPLE .THIS PEOPLE HAS NO CONSTITUTIONAL BACKING .SOUGHERN CAMEROONIANS YOU HAVE THE RIGHT NOT TO TAKE ANY ORDERS FROM THEM .IT IS LAW TO DISOBEY A BAD LAW ,PARTICULARLY IF THAT LAW IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL
2)THE VOICE ON BLOOD MONEY
NOW to those of you who embrace elections as an opportunity to enrich yourselves over the blood of slain innocent civilians and at the detriment of an entire people,listen to me clearly regarding your appetite for blood money. a)Elections in Cameroon will never bring you freedom ,liberty and happiness
b)Elections will never bring peace and security in Buea and Bamenda
c)Elections will never build you hospitals and clinics
e)Elections will never build you roads and schools nor
d) Portable drinking water or Electricity
3) TEN THINGS ELECTIONS WILL DO
a) Will keep police in your neighbourhood ordering you at gun point to eat your own shit
b)Elections will legitimise the pain and suffering inflicted on you
c)Elections will create jobs for the occupiers and enablers not you
d)Elections will create new monsters in the name of politicians to spy and sell locals
e)Elections will hasten poverty ,misery suffering and shorten lives in Southern CAMEROON.IS
f)Elections will further enslave Southern Cameroon and ensnare her to foreign rule by LRC on behalf of France
g)Elections will make a way for more enablers and infiltrators
h)Elections aid and abate crimes such as elections rigging ,fraud ,bribery and corruption and above all extrajudicial killings
i)Elections offer opportunities for nor colonial agents to gang up against nationalists and destroy all nationalists activism to promote anti sovereign
activities
j)Elections without safeguard for fairness, transparency an x protection of valid votes cast by an independent body and judiciary is a wanton waste of time and resources and a preparation for disenfranchisement.
4)CONCLUSION AND WAY FORWARD
Since independence and annexation ,we have been having elections in Cameroon with catastrophic outcomes and unhealthy results that empower autocracy, torture and all kinds of human rights abuses against out people. Southern Cameroonians come from a culture of free and fair elections .Any attempts to either allow or mpose another fake elections on the people is an act of oppression aimed at validating the on going GENOCIDAL war and must be discouraged , resisted and rejected completely. The only way forward is GENUINE NEGOTIATIONS that examines the history and root causes of the war for a police outcome that is a win – win for all stake holders
Whether it is ten autonomous regions or two states federation of special status,these are all 50% measures which we don’t want and that our people have not been killed for. We don’t want 50% FREEDOM. WE WANT 100% FREEDOM.100% FREEDOM IS ALL WE WANT AND STAND FIRMLY ON OUR GROUNDS TO ACHIEVE.
FELLOW SOUTHERN CAMEROONIANS THIS FREEDOM IS ACHIEVABLE.
LONG LIVE THE PEOPLE OF AMBAZONIA SHORT LIVE THE STRUGGLE.
ELECTA SHALO
SCNC UK

Conflict in the Southern Cameroons

By

Mbah Vitalis

SCNC-UK

• 

  Cameroon has its roots in colonial history just like any other

  African country. During the 19th century, the territory of

  Cameroon was ruled by many local kingdoms. In the 1880s,

  the Germans in their quest for colonisation took control of

  Cameroon, making it their colony in 1884. After World War I,

  when Germany was defeated the League of Nations handed

  control over the territory to Britain and France who divided it

  and established separate administrative systems. Both

  countries assumed responsibilities over the territory until after

  the second world war when many African countries started

  demanding their independence.

  During this period, Britain did not grant independence to

  Southern Cameroon, saying that they were not economically

  viable and could only survive by uniting with Francophone

  Cameroon or Nigeria. In a plebiscite organised in the British

  Administrative part of Cameroon on the 11 of Feb 1961, the

  northern part of Anglophone Cameroon voted to join Nigeria.

  Neither option was as popular in the southern part which, in

  the absence of a much-preferred option for separate statehood,

  ultimately joined with French Cameroon.

  When the two territories reunited in 1961, a new constitution

  was drafted to define the new union as a federal entity in

  which the autonomy of the English-speaking minority would

  be protected. However, in 1972, a controversial referendum

  transformed the federation into a unitary state, effectively

  ending the autonomy of the Anglophone regions. The fact that

  the will of the Anglophone population was overruled in 1961

• 

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  and the subsequent systemic discrimination and

  marginalization they suffered under successive governments

  dominated by Francophones planted the seeds of the current

  separatist conflict.

  The conflicts and crises in the Cameroon Anglophone region

  are between the part of the country that was once run by the

  British (1916-1961), today widely referred to as Ambazonia

  and the larger part once ruled by the French (1918-1960).

  These conflicts were foreseen in the decolonisation of colonial

  countries, peoples, and territories.

  The conflict began in October 2016

  with teachers and lawyers taking to

  the street protesting the infiltration

  of the French legal system into the

  Anglophone systems. By the end of

  2017 this turned into an armed

  struggle and has of date resulted in

  a civil war. It should be noted that

  in the conflict since September 2017 1,850 people have died;

  most schools have been closed for the past three years;

  than 170 villages have been destroyed; 530, 000 people have
• been internally displaced and 35,000 have sought refuge in

  neighbouring Nigeria. The conflict has also devasted the local

  economy which accounts for about one fifth of the country’s

  GDP.
• The conflict started when lawyers and teachers took to the

  streets protesting that the government should stop sending only lawyers and teachers who spoke French and not English to manage the affairs of the Judiciary and Educative sectors of
• the anglophone regions. Those who could not speak French

  were brutally handled by the forces of law and order.

  The civil society then joined the lawyers and teachers and

  they were equally brutally handled by the police. The interim

  Anglophone government of Southern Cameroon has declared

  that the cities become ‘Ghost Towns’ on Mondays, when no-

  one goes out, as a protest to the Francophone government.

  The majority of the protesters were also brutally treated by the

  police and many trade unions like the Consortium were

  banned. Many union members who were to dialogue with the

  government were arrested while others are still on the run.

  Those arrested were charged with Terrorism and an attempt to

  change the form of the state from a Unitary State to a Federal

  State what it has once been since the 70s. The government

  became aggressive in handling the crisis, even shutting down

  the internet in the two anglophone regions to stop people

  organising and passing information, or receiving orders from

  supporters in the diaspora.

  The president of French Cameroon who has been in power

  since 1982 failed to manage the conflict adequately and after

  criticism from the international community he restored

  internet connection into the regions and released some of the

  actors arrested at the beginning of the crisis.

  The move was seen by a majority of Anglophones as a sham

  by the government and on the 1

  st

  of October they tookto to the

  street and restored their independence and imposed their

  supremacy in the region by hoisting the Ambazonian Flag.
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  The government, repressive as they have always been, killed

  about 3000 people, while about 600 000 were displaced.

  The conflict has been dragging for years now with Separatists

  on the one hand claiming that independence is just around the

  corner while President Paul Biya and his government still

  think a very quick and strong military intervention will give

  them victory.

  Ceasefire talks in #Cameroon reflect government finally understands that armed force cannot solve the underlying cultural conflict. Because of the suffering and bitterness of three years of war, Ambazonia must now be on the table.

  — Herman J. Cohen (@CohenOnAfrica) July 6, 2020

   The conflict has already left so many displaced persons and so

  many killed in the Anglophone regions that it is only the

  intervention of both local and international communities that

  is likely to bring it to an end.

Mbah Vitalis