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EMOTIONS OF TROUBLED AMBAZONIAN

             EMOTIONS OF A TROUBLED AMBAZONIAN

My heart bleeds daily because of the suffering of my people The carnage  carried out in the Former  trust territory of British Southern Cameroon is unspeakable .My people are being treated with impunity.
The fact is that the former British Southern Cameroons has been hemmed into la REPUBLIQUE du CAMEROUN  for  60 years .The  western world  wants Ambazonia to conform to this twisted arrangements because it profits them .For example New Age a British oil company  signed an oil deal with Cameroun in June 2018 to exploit oil in Ambazonia despite  the  ongoing war which  was declared on us in 2016 by Paul Biya  .The resources is the reason Mr Biya  and his cohorts  continue with impunity  the eradication of the Ambazonian people .

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Evidence of this can be seen as  Biya’s military drag civilians from hospitals and their homes and  kill them .There are countless lifeless bodies on the streets everyday. Corpses continue to decompose in bushes after being abandoned. These  extra judicial killings is compounded by rape of our women and young girls.
People’s  houses are regularly burnt down  forcing them to flee into the bushes.The elderly and  those who  cannot escape are “roasted” in their houses or shot. This is the nightmare Ambazonians go through everyday under the annexation of Cameroun .These carnage can only  be compared to Adolf Hitlers reign of terror.
Our  young men are targeted and killed.Others  arrested and ferried  to Yaounde where they are imprisoned . Many have been tortured  to dead in detention  and buried in mass graves .
These barbarism and  humiliation is  too much to bare. Our people live in constant fear. People are afraid to even have pictures or messages in their phone about the situation.Those caught are tortured and jailed  as  in the case of Wilfred Siewe a father of 2 from Germany .Or even the case prominent  activist Fritz Takang ,Alais  “Bush hunter”
Nobody is spared .Not even the Fon of Bafut whose palace was burnt down for refusing to comply with the occultist  regime .
The  Whole of Ambazonia as  we speak is heavily militarised .The international community must come to our aid before it is too late.
I fight for Ambazonia with anger for the slaughter of my people
I fight for Ambazonia for the suppression ,oppression  ,humiliation  and colonisation for almost 60 years counting.I am determined to see a free Ambazonia,So help me God
Electa Shalo Manyimuchua
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Independence Is All We Want

Independence Is All We Want for Southern Cameroons

 

-By Anumboh Eveline Mafor

 

When Lawyers and Teachers went on the streets in October 2016 to express their dissatisfaction for arrempts to assimilate the Common Law Legal system into the Public law system and the continuous use of French Teachers in English schools in Southern Cameroons who were teaching kids in a language that they did not understand, little did the Government of La Republique du Cameroun know it was just the reawakening of the Anglophone Problem which eventually led to the declaration of war by President Paul Biya of La Republique du Cameroun on 30th November 2017.

 

This was followed by the abduction and illegal deportation of the President of Southern Cameroons Ambazonia and his Cabinet during a meeting at Nera Hotel in Nigeria on January 5, 2018. They were kept incommunicado for over a year without access to their Lawyers, Doctors, and the RedCross and Family members. This was in breach of all international conventions in which La Republique du Cameroun is signatory to. Our President and his Cabinet were later sentenced to life imprisonment by the Yaounde Military Tribunal. Dr NforNgallaNfor who is the national Chairman of the SCNC remains in Prison with them charged for secession and hostility against the state of La Republique du Cameroun.

 

For two years now, our leaders remain locked up in Yaounde against their will. We continue to call on the Government of La Republique du Cameroun to free our leaders. The quest for the restoration of the Independence of Southern Cameroons will intensify diplomatically while we also seek justice for the genocide that is being carried out on our people which has claimed well over 15 000 lives and over 350 villages burnt down by soldiers from La Republique du Cameroun.

We say no to assimilation. There is no turning back until we get to Buea to celebrate freedom and Independence and rebuild our country Southern Cameroon’s Ambazonia.

 

 

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JUSTICE4NERA10

JUSTICE4NERA10: TRIBUTES  TO ALL PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE

 

 

 

 

I salute you all great and brave people of the world who are behind bars for speaking and fighting for the truth. They may think it is over but on the contrary the fight has just begun and it is unstoppable. Fight for your rights to the last breath and no to any form of human rights violation.
Southern Cameroonians today demand justice for our Leaders abducted in Nigeria. It is January 5th again two years gone and we are still waiting no answer.

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Our leaders and many other activists were on this faithful day 5th January 2018 all bundled at gunpoint by armed forces of President Paul Biya of French Cameroon and abducted to French Cameroon. What a sad day to us and gross violation  of human rights. We demand their immediate release and we all know that this was a state sponsored abduction. How can people with refugee status be dragged out of a country where they sought protection from? The world indeed is becoming unbecoming and untill now they are lavishing in the Kondengui dungeon.They have since then been labelled terrorists according to the regime freedom fighters are terrorists.

 

 

Dr Nfor Ngala Nfor SCNC National Chairman was amongst,at his age he is put through this and his crime is “speaking the truth”. So too was our president Julius Sisiku Ayuk Tabe. Paul Biya the world is watching and we will not relent our efforts in any way ,we shall fight till the end.
The foundation laid by our forefathers is solid and we cannot in any way let them down nor let the future generation down. We carry the message of hope and truth and nothing but the truth will set us free.The light of hope is still burning and can be seen at the end of the tunnel.No amount of torture, threats ETC.will stop us from fighting to the finishing line.
SCNC as the mother organisation will fight and fight for all we know is that our independence is coming soon. We shall not in any way relent our efforts for freedom is coming soon. That is why we are using all platforms, SCNC UK was honoured to host SCNC global convention from the 28th-29th June 2019. A strong message was sent to the world and we are still raising our voices for the international community to intervene. Our very own Honorable Wirba Joseph was present to grace the occasion. Our candle of hope was lit as a reminder and symbol of “hope” and tribute was paid to our fallen heroes,gone but not forgotten. We are saddened that you are not here with us but at the same time celebrate your bravery. United we stand never to fall until independence, we salute you all great people.
By Catherine M. Yombo (SCNC UK V.PRO)
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NOT ALL LIVES MATTER IN CAMEROON.

     NOT ALL LIVES MATTERS IN  CAMEROON

We are made to understand that Cameroon is one and indivisible am I correct? Also Cameroon is a democratic and peace loving nation right? Cameroon is a member of gentleman’s club (UN,Commonwealth,E.T.C.) perfectly correct. Paul Biya is also Cameroon’s one and only president for nearly forty years. He is also one of the oldest president who spends most and rules most from abroad. All these gives a common man no doubt but a good true picture of the “greatness” of such a country am I right?
What a shame and insult to humanity, for how long must this go on?
We are all living in fear,refugees all over,the killings continues and no place to call home yet life goes on very smoothly and conducively in French Cameroons. Paul Biya has not only reduced Southern Cameroonians into second class citizens but he has made it very evident that they do not matter or belong. He is the almighty and maintains such a high profile as number one human rights violator and dictator.
That  is why it is very normal for him to go about his business travel the world while Southern Cameroons is more or less a military base or a graveyard. That is why lots of time also is invested in trying to blindfold the world on the “greatness” of Cameroon as “one and indivisible country “. Notwithstanding, one thing is clear and is a fact which is that “the road maybe rocky, narrow,muddy or slippery but  for sure that only the truth and the truth shall prevail.Justice can only be delayed but cannot be denied that is a fact also.
In the midst  of this horror in Southern Cameroons Paul Biya “most-do- election” must take place. How on earth can there be an election in a country in the middle of war? The killings continue, Southern Cameroonians all living in fear and traumatised. Not to talk of those in jail ,killed and the constant brutal attacks of citizens by the military. Where did we go wrong?
Our lives does not really matter,life continues and must go on in French Cameroon. Millions have been invested for Christmas banquets in their country and with joy it is broadcasted and circulated all over the social media.
,French Cameroon’s 1st lady pictured feasting and showing off with children of her “calibre” in French Cameroons. What an insult, what a shame,it is evident that “not all lives matters”
 That time is coming, that time is near and is here and unanimously we say “enough is enough “. Our struggle is God ordained and we will succeed,the fight continues until independence.Paul Biya you will have to kill us all for no amount of threats or torture will make us to surrender. We are the never again generation,we shall take back control of our land. We shall continue to raise our voices higher and higher until we reach home (Buea) Freedom is coming soon.
CATHERINE M.YOMBO.
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THE ASSIMILATION OF SOUTHERN CAMEROONS  BY LA REPUBLIQUE DU CAMEROON.

THE ASSIMILATION OF SOUTHERN CAMEROONS  BY LA REPUBLIQUE DU CAMEROON.

The problem of the  British southern Cameroons stems from a failed decolonisation process followed by annexation and systematic assimilation  by La Repubique du  Cameroun . This was attested by President Biya himself during the Paris peace forum where he said ,”we tried to assimilate them (Ambazonians) into our system but failed.”
Despite accepting failure in assimilating Southern Cameroonians,he is still committing troops to fight a war in Ambazonia which he knows he cannot win. His cosmetic solutions to the conflict are all tied to assimilation. This includes the bilingualism commission  and his recent bill on the adoption of  English and French as national languages. Even the Tripartite visit by the secretary general of La Francophonie ,the Commonwealth and the president of the African Union was all an attempt to dismiss the route cause of the conflict as simply a matter of colonial linguistic divide.
Assimilation of the state of Southern Cameroons  started with  dissolution of the federal union of two equal sates into a unitary state  in 1972 by then President Amadou   Ahidjo. The  flag was also change from two stars to just one depicting the unitary state  on 20th May 1975. The effacement of the  Southern Cameroons state was completed in 1984 with  the Country  renamed “The Republic of Cameroon”  by Paul Biya . Renaming it in French  “La Republique du Cameroun” was to show the assimilation and annexation of Southern Cameroons was complete since is it the same name French Cameroun had prior to independence which it  got on 1st January 1960 from France.
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Flag from 1961-1975
The problem of southern Cameroons is that of failed decolonisation and recolonisation by our Francophone brothers. It is true some politicians denied the existence of  a Southern Cameroons or Anglophone problem. These government officials are paid to tell lies. Fortunately ministers like Atanga Nji who refused there  was even an Anglophone Problem are now acknowledging there is one after two years of conflict.
However, they still refuse to acknowledge the root cause of the problem. They claim the form of the state is non negotiable,understandably because  the present form benefits them and their families .
President Paul Biya in his address  on the 10th of September  2019  promised to solve the problems plaguing the North west and  South west  regions of the country through a national dialogue which was not represented by the people who have the problem. It was more of a monologue. He said the national dialogue will ease tensions . But how was it going to ease tensions when the form of the state or Ambazonia  was a taboo Subject. The resolution of the dialogue was to offer a “special status” to Southern Cameroons ,something that has been totally dismissed  by most Ambazonians.
President Biya  also announced in February that municipal and parliamentary elections will be held in 2020 while he is yet to call a ceasefire or withdraw his troops in the ongoing war in Ambazonia. A war he declared himself .Majority of political parties and candidates continue to withdraw from the elections for obvious reasons.

The Social Democratic Front through its chairman in a letter that went viral on the social media said  his party will not participate  in the election unless the army of occupation was pulled out  of Southern Cameroons.
 After a very long silence as to the faith of the national dialogue ,the bill on granting of  special status  to Southern Cameroons was finally sent to parliament where its content met strong resistance  particularly from Southern Cameroonians.
It is now clear President Biya has no intention to listen to voice of reason. While he continues his pretence,Southern Cameroonians remain resolute on the restoration of their statehood as the only way to lasting peace.

It seems the international community is also accepting this as fact. All that remains is frank negotiations to be initiated where a road-map is set for independence. Biya must now accept the people of Southern Cameroons have refused to be assimilated.
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Electa Manyimucha
SCNC-UK Activist.
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Cry of the innocent

               Cry of the Innocent

 

It was on 22nd September 2016 that this problem started.  With a peaceful demonstration, to people being locked up in prison and cells for asking for equal opportunities in their own homeland, Ambazonia.

 

Young people frustrated

 

Since 2016, the unsettled situation has caused so many young people, boys and girls, to go and seek refuge in their neighbouring countries, which is causing their lives.  The daughter of a sister from Southern Cameroons, Ambazonia, with a Master’s Degree in hand, was almost killed in Mali.  They cut her flesh up, but thank God for the intervention of a passer-by, she survived.  All this is because their own country has no jobs, no peace, even no voice to contribute in their own country, they all want to go, but young people cannot demonstrate because they will be accused of being terrorists and will also face life behind bars.

 

Once you open your mouth to speak, if you are caught, your life’s destruction has started.  Young people don’t have voices, they cannot contribute in their society.  This is what the present government of La Republique is doing.

 

What a shame that we believe that children are our future, but with La Republique government, the old are their future, young people should not talk when adults are talking.

 

Children are left orphans

 

As the situation in Cameroon carries on, so many children are becoming orphans, some whose parents have died either through stray bullets or by direct bullets shot by government soldiers.  Some are orphans as their parents died on their way escaping from the soldiers killing all males in Southern Cameroons (Ambazonians), or running away from hunger or because their homes were being burned and they were homeless.  Some are running away from the embarrassment they get from soldiers who batch in their homes and rape them in front of their children.  Some are even killed in front of their children.  Women will run away from home because of embarrassment of being raped in front of their children.

 

Some children are orphaned as their parents will empty their bank account to escape abroad…! but end up being swallowed by the monstrous sea waves in the ocean.  Some children will survive while others will die with their mother and father or only their mother or only their father.  I saw on the news some Southern Cameroonians (Ambazonians) dead on their way abroad, only their children survived and were crying.

 

Where is the peace?  Where is our world going?  The world leaders and all human rights organisations should stand up and take decisions on Cameroon and its government.

 

A word to the wise is sufficient.  Long live Southern Cameroons!  Long live Ambazonians!

 

 

Written by,

 

Vivian Ngum

SCNC-UK Activist

 

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THE 2014 ANTI- TERRORISM LAW IN CAMEROON AND ITS EFFECTS ON SOUTHERN CAMEROONIANS

THE   2014 ANTI- TERRORISM LAW IN CAMEROON AND ITS EFFECTS ON SOUTHERN CAMEROONIANS;

(December 18, 2014) Cameroon’s legislature has passed new anti – terrorism legislation that includes the death penalty for citizens who, either as individuals or in a group carry out, abet or sponsor terrorism.

The draft law also prescribes the death penalty 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’’ and for anyone who supplies arms, war equipment, bacteria and viruses with the intention of killings.

The same law applies for people guilty of kidnapping with terrorist intent, as well as for ‘’ anyone who directly or indirectly finances acts of terrorism’’.

This Anti- terrorism law is manifestly against the fundamental liberties and right of the Cameroon people.  In the guise to fight terrorism, the government real intent is to stifle political dissent ‘’Kah Wallah, a leader of the Cameroon people’s party lament.

The 2014 anti –terrorism law has sparked a wave of criticism across the political sphere from opposition political leaders to civil society, church ministers, trade unions and civil society.

They argued that the law is designed to terrorise the people and kill their freedoms.

Various opposition political leaders and civil society exponents have vowed to fight the proposed law to its logical end. Cameroonians must resist and say no to this manoeuvre ….. We will fight this law by every means said Fru Ndi, leader of the SDF opposition party in Cameroon

Furthermore, the 2014 anti-terrorism law has been use to silent dissent of the southern Cameroon separatist’s movement.

Seseku Ayuk Tabe leader of the southern Cameroon separatist movement 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, demonstration against the state of Cameroon amongst other charges. Their lawyers accused the judge of bias and withdrew from the proceedings.

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. Some people believe that the law has been enacted to terrorise the people of southern Cameroon and possible killing their freedoms.

The 2014 anti-terrorism 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 the formation of a new nation known as Ambazonia.

More than 2000 southern Cameroonians are being incarcerated in prisons all over French Cameroon for merely expressing their political views on the on-going crisis in Southern Cameroon.  Most of them have been sentence to 12-15 years imprisonment using the anti-terrorism law while others are still lamenting behind bars with deplorable prison conditions.

WRITTEN BY LUM WINIFRED ACHU

SCNC ACTIVIST LONDON UK

 

 

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TOLE HOSPITAL BURNT BY BIYA SOLDIERS

What actually happened at Tole health centre on 30 October 2019

As part of the SCNC-UK Human rights monitoring project ,we look at what happened when Tole Hospital was burnt down.

Background

Tole health centre was set ablaze in Buea ,Southern Cameroons on Wednesday 30th of October 2019.
The act is believed to have been be carried out by Cameroun Soldiers. Their motive was that the Hospital was suspected to be used to treat Southern Cameroons revolutionary fighters wounded in the on going Ambazonia war of independence. So they wanted to make sure anyone wounded or sick should have no access to healthcare ,including the unfortunate civilians they assault everyday as they ravage villages. Unsurprisingly, the government of Cameroon decided to blame the same revolutionary fighters for burning the hospital.

                         

The evidence:

The claim by Cameroun government that Ambazonians or even revolutionary fighters set their own Hospital ablaze is preposterous. Firstly, locals with eyewitness accounts have pointed the fingers at Cameroun Soldiers. The government’s account looks unreasonable since it is a well know fact that the Military of French Cameroun dress up like Ambazonian revolutionary fighters in other to Camouflage their true identity. Burning of houses , villages and  Hospitals has been the modus operandi of the rogue military of Cameroun. Journalist Mimi Mefo was unequivocal of the culprits when she twitted about the incident. That same week, another group of BIR soldiers burnt almost an entire village in Bafut in the Northern Zone of Southern  Cameroons. At least 20 homes were razed to the ground.

 

 

 

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Anyone who doubts the veracity of these facts can watch the ground breaking investigative documentary by the BBC about the systematic burning of villages by Cameroun military in Ambazonia.

 

Interpretation of the facts:

The government of French Cameroun claims it is trying to protect civilians but there is no evidence to support this. On the Contrary, they seem intent to carry out a genocide in Southern Cameroons while the international community silently watches. France trains and supports  Cameroun Military particularly the rapid intervention Battalion(BIR), the main unit sent to the front lines and already accused of numerous war crimes and acts of genocide.

 

 

The systemic  pattern and frequency in which these soldiers burn villages can be no coincidence. They are trained to carry such acts . They have been seen on video carrying equipment to ignite houses. These acts are sanctioned by the military hierarchy, including Cameroun president  Paul Biya and even their facilitators the government of France. French mercenaries  are directly involved in the training, deployment and coordination of the activities of the BIR Soldiers. Additionally, despite the methodical pattern of burning villages and hospitals , rape of young girls and women,inhumane  torture of civilians, there has never been any condemnation from France.

The recent money pledged by Mr Emmanuel Macron for reconstruction in Southern Cameroons is very laughable since France is directly involved in the continued destruction and genocide in Southern Cameroons. Are the villagers whose homes have been burnt down in Bafut ever receive such money to rebuild their homes or lives back?  Properly never.  Most are now living in bushes or depend on scarce humanitarian support in hope the international community can finally intervene to bring lasting peace.

 Conclusion and recommendations

 Lasting peace can only be possible by the recognition of the failed decolonisation process of the  UN trust Territory of Southern Cameroons. By also acknowledging the ineligible right of Southern Cameroonians to determine their future .The United nations and UN security Council must set out a road-map for an independence referendum where the people can decide their destiny.  In the meantime,the world must condemn these war crimes being committed by the military of dictator Biya and make sure those  involved are arrested and tried before  the international criminal court.

 

By Magdelaine Ngemu
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Prominent Muslim Scholar and Southern Cameroons activist finally released.

 

                  Prominent Muslim Scholar and Southern Cameroons activist finally released after a month in detention

The Director of  Peace research Center Bamenda was released from detention on 1 Novenber 2019 by the Dictatorial regime in Yaounde.Abdul Karim Ali was taken to the State Defence Secretariat (Secrétariat d’État à la défense, SED) in Yaoundé. His whereabouts were finally made public on September 30 when he was taken before the Yaoundé Military Court and charged with acts of terrorism, financing terrorism, and secession.

 

 

This is not the first time Mr Abdul Karim Ali has been apprehended without any justifiable cause.This year he  was arrested in front of the Public Security Police Post old town  Bamenda on  January 25, 2019, few minutes after taking part in the evening prayers and latter released.

 

 

Human rights organisations including Amnesty international have been calling for him to be freed .This international pressure on the oppressive dictatorship in Yaounde may have helped his liberation,but thousands of  Southern Cameroonians remain incarcerated across the Country under very difficult conditions including Southern Cameroons leaders illegally abducted in Nigeria and handed to oppressive regime in Yaounde without due process,in violation of international law.

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CAMEROOON GOVERNMENT USING THE 2014 ANTI TERORISM LAW TO SLAMMED LIFE JAIL SENTENCES TO SOUTHERN CAMEROONIAN LEADERS.

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

 

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