The periods between 1st October 1961 to 2nd June 1972 and beyond reflects a clear intent of France and French Cameroon {la Republic du Cameroon} to recolonise and assimilate the people of British Southern Cameroons also known as West Cameroon {Ambazonia}. Through a high level conspiracy between the international community and the United Nations {UNO}, the lives of a people were put in a great deal of uncertainty for the future. Even the history thought in schools does not reflect the true history of the people, little did they know that nothing hides under the sun forever and there will come a generation that will stand firm to rewrite the history of the past and put glory to our forefathers who sort out to tell the world about a failed union but were brutally killed and therefore stretching the elastic limit of the people.
Every union with bad faith will never last. The union between French and West Cameroons cannot last any further for a simple reason of bad faith; if the so called Cameroon government had good faith then West Cameroons {Ambazonia} would not be in a revolution fighting to restore her independence. Simple demands from striking teachers and lawyers were met with armed force brutality on them. University students crying out about unjustified fees levied on them ,were also met with brutality of various forms ,the general population set out for a peaceful protest with peace plants were equally met with untold brutality .How far can you push a people and expect them to stay quiet?. Self-defence is a right and even the laws defend that.
A conniving vicious government like that of French Cameroon {la Republic du Cameroon} cannot be left to govern a gentle peaceful people of Southern Cameroons {Ambazonia}.The youths after 1st of October 2017,realised the only option they have to be free is to fight back and defend their communities. Event that have unfolded after October 1st legitimizes the reasons for the population to defend themselves, villages have been burned to ashes ,families displaced, people living in bushes, targeted killings going on and mass graves spotted in different localities across Southern Cameroons, thousands across the border as refugees in neighbouring Nigeria. What more do we need to tell the world ?. The population has been pushed to its elastic limit leading to young boys and girls to pick up arms to defend themselves. We all encourage the government of la republic to facilitate an unconditional, free and fair dialogue to avoid any further blood shed.
Catherine Muring Yombo is an active member of the Southern Cameroon National council (SCNC UK). At the moment an asylum seeker in the UK with no home, country, state to return to. I am a prisoner and refugee in my own home land Southern Cameroons, just a matter of time. I will continue to fight and speak out to the world until our independence is granted. La Republic du Cameroun (LR) can claim ownership of our lands and people but one thing is certain that there will always be a one day chance for the true owner over the 99days of a thief. I shall die for my land and nobody or anything will stop me from fighting till the end. Many of our people have been killed, arrested, tortured, abducted etc. by LR government but there is no turning back if not for me for future generation. The fight for total restoration of southern Cameroons (SC) continues for it is our fundamental right by birth.
History Told and will always be Told
SCNC as a pressure group is fighting for the liberation of southern Cameroons which this has continuously suffered attack from the French Cameroon gendarmes. This is carried out through peaceful means while the French Cameroon has turned this into a war fair denying Southern Cameroonians of their basic human rights. Such barbaric motives have resulted to thousands of innocent southern Cameroonians to either lose their freedom or lives. Right now our people are scattered all over in the jungle, those unable to run being molested and under all forms of abuses. Fear hovers all over towns and cities as the streets are flooded with uniform men with weapons ready for the next victim. In addition to all these ruthless acts of barbarism, people’s valuable goods are seized and others burnt or destroyed. All we want now is complete independence and there is no room for any form of union and we also say no to a federal government for this led us from ‘‘cold to frost’’. Our lands remain underdeveloped and crippled meanwhile LR extracts all its natural resources to develop its cities. This can be justified by the following (home-truth practical questions by Shey A.);
1) Why has there never been a southern Cameroonian as Director of SONARA?
2) Why was the West Cameroon Marketing Board closed down?
3) Why was the Cameroon Bank Closed down?
4) Why was the Yoke Electricity power Station closed down?
5) Why was the Santa Coffee Estate Destroyed?
6) Why is money being transported from Bamenda to Bafoussam at the close of every business day?
7) Why is money being transported from Victoria to Douala at the close of every business day?
8) Why does SONARA pay royalties to the Douala city council rather than to the Victoria city council?
9) Why do some employees of some companies in Bamenda have to travel to Bafoussam every month for their pay?
10) Why was the Victoria Deep Sea Port abandoned?
11) Why is revenue from The Southern Cameroons being used to recoup the Douala sea port when there is an excellent deep sea port in Victoria ready for use?
12) Why is there a new sea port being promoted in Kribi and not in Victoria?
13) Why was the Tiko International Airport closed down?
14) Why was the Bali Airport closed down?
15) Why was the Bamenda Airport closed down?
16) Why is there no road linking the Southern Cameroons internally between Buea and Bamenda?
17) Why is there no road linking Mamfe and Kumba?
18) Why did they link Mamfe and Bamenda?
19) Why does the ring road exist only on paper?
20) Who currently owns Ndu Tea, and Why?
21) Who currently owns Tole Tea, and why?
22) What percentage of the revenue of The Cameroons comes from The Southern Cameroons?
23) What percentage of the revenue in #22 is used for the development of Southern Cameroons?
24) Why are all the Reservoirs of Petroleum products in Douala, Yaounde, Bafoussam and in Garoua while there is none on Southern Cameroons Soil, when production is based in Victoria?
25). Why are petroleum products in the Southern Cameroons imported from Douala, while the refinery is in Victoria of Southern Cameroons?
26). Why are petroleum products transported by tankers from Victoria Refinery to Douala for storage?
27 Why was the Southern Cameroons not given the third option in the 1960s of gaining independence without necessarily joining either Nigeria or la Republique du Cameroon?
28). Why did the United Kingdom leave the Southern Cameroons without a Military Force to defend its territory?
29).What happened to the so called Federal Republic of Cameroon?
30). Why was The Southern Cameroons split into North West and South West Provinces?
The final straw on the camel’s back to this struggle has been from 2016 when our judicial system (Common Law) was being tampered with to be replaced by the French legal system (the civil law). Our lawyers were also having the problem of having to handle cases in court being presided over by French judges. To make matters worse, our educational system was also a victim whereby French teachers were posted to English schools. What a gross abuse of human nature. Both teachers and lawyers decided to go on sit down strike which up till now is ongoing with no school resumption. As usually, peaceful demonstrations resulted to lawyers, teachers, pro-independence activists etc being beaten, killed,brutalised and bundled to the deadly Kondengui prison. Not to talk of the numerous youths and university students that were raped and abducted. The struggle has now taken a different turn and no Southern Cameroonian of sound mind is sleeping until that minute when our flag will be flying in Buea.
MURING YOMBO and JACKIE FEARNLEY SCNC UK ACTIVISTS
When enough is enough, the people have no choice but to go out loud for international support or better still to fight for what is theirs. We have suffered enough in the cruel hands of Paul Biya and his government of LR. There is no turning back and we will resist till the end. We have been pushed to the wall for so long and with their own eyes day in and out they see people disappear into thin air,there is bound to be an explosion or eruption. That is what 22nd September 2017 was to Southern Cameroonians headed by women/TAKEMBENG or TAKUMBENG. This same day Mr Paul Biya was presiding over his bag of lies at the UN General Assembly in New York. Southern Cameroons schools have not opened since last year and Mr Biya is that bold to talk when he has deprived us of education which is a basic human right. When women come out in their numbers in a mass protest as ‘Takumbeng” in a traditional way,it means that their “eyes have seen their ears”. This is a traditional way of expressing the severity of an offence. Women go out in numbers half naked or putting on old clothes,bright colours clothes etc. The case of Friday 22nd September 2017,women were dressed either in red,white, old clothes or half naked. Southern Cameroonians have had enough and can no longer accommodate or bare the barbarism of La Republic. Mothers/women can no longer sit and watch their children disappearing. The militarization of our towns and villages,the unlawfully killings, arrests,threats,etc has unleashed the Takumbengs for an out cry for the gods to hear as well as the international community to rescue us and intervene. So many innocent souls have been lost and enough is enough.
Takumbeng or Takembeng are a female social movement in the North West region of Southern Cameroons. It connects with traditional practices where group of women perform ostracizing rituals against individuals in their communities. Glaring examples could be seen as far back as the 1950s and 1960s towards the end of colonial control and in the early years of independent Cameroon. Since the early 1990s especially in the city of Bamenda, Takumbeng protests have taken place which was another horrible period in the history of S C. This was seen more especially during the presidential election of 1992 in which the results were fraudulent in favour of Mr Paul Biya. This resulted to several deaths, arrests, destruction of public structures.
It is nearly 2yrs now since schools have been closed in Southern Cameroons yet Mr Biya says that everything is perfect in his country to the world. The world is now a global village as we say and we can feed our eyes with happenings a thousand or more miles from us. Thanks to social media for being such a necessary evil. Internet in SC fluctuates like the stock exchange market/exchange rates meaning that it is up to the government. It is on/off so that certain happenings are hidden from the world,of course acts of horror and abuse to mankind. Dictator Paul Biya,shame on you and your government,the blood of the innocent Southern Cameroonians killed is in your hands and will haunt you. All the pains and torture inflicted on us,mass arrests,the abduction of our people and all those lavishing in prisons has strengthened this struggle to the next level.
Where is my President,my chairman and other Leaders?
A few months ago we were jubilant, welcomed and celebrated the formation of our interim government headed by HE Sisiku AyukTabe to lead Southern Cameroons. I amongst others did not hesitate in sending out this message to the world “My president,our president is now Sisiku AyukTabe and that is final and indisputable. His mandate is genuine,legal and we (Southern Cameroonians) have chosen him as our leader. We all stand with him and he will take us out of the burning bush. Mr President we thank you for taking this office and with you together we shall succeed. Our independence is inevitable and we will resist till the end. Our struggle to independence is God-ordained and we must take back control…….” for further reading; http://scnc-uk.com/2017/11/07/president-of-southern-cameroons/
The cruel hands of LR at work once more, pure State-Sponsored-Abduction gross human rights violations. Our interim President HE Sisiku AyukTabe Julius,SCNC national chairman Nfor Ngala Nfor, members of the interim government, and many others were abducted in Nigeria. This act of barbarism took place on January 5th 2018 in Nera Hotel in Abuja-Nigeria during a meeting to discuss the situation of thousands of Southern Cameroonians refugees in Nigeria. Our leaders were picked to the land of nowhere like hens off their chicks and up till now they have been denied access from lawyers and even their love-ones. What cruelty,where is the UN, Amnesty etc? In this modern world people are being treated like animals. We say NO, No, No, We shall fight even with our last breath,our leaders must be free and we must be free too. Mr Biya,we shall continue this fight until you set us free,freedom is a fundamental human right. Here are the names of those abducted,just to name a few;
1) Sisiku AyukTabe Julius,
2) Nfor Ngala Nfor
3) DR. Fidelis Nde Che
4)Dr. Henry Kimeng
5) Prof. Awasum
6)Dr. Cornelius Kwanga,
7)Barrister Nalowa Bih
8)Tassang Wilfred,
9)Elias Eyambe,
10) Ojong Okongho
11)Dr. OGORK Ntui and
12) Shufai Blaise Berinyuy.
HE Sisiku Ayuk Tabe Julius presiding over a fundraising event in Premrose Baptist church,London (17/11/17).
HE Sisiku Ayuk Tabe Julius with Catherine Yombo in London November 2017.
The wind of change is blowing over Africa
Mr Paul Biya of La Republic du Cameroon, step down now for time is up and we say no to dictators all over the world. For over 36yrs you have been in power changing and amending the constitution as you deem it to your taste. This year 2018 you still want to stand as a presidentially candidate which we know the winner already before Election Day. People’s power will always prevail and we the Southern Cameroonians have made it clear that enough is enough and we want back our lands. The wrath of the gods is going to be so severe so it is the time of reckoning,repent and be save. That wind of change must reach Cameroon for we are rising to fall no more.
“O my home,blessed with milk and honey,land of peace and joy. The oppressors want to sweep all our God-given treasures;we are killed,abducted,arrested and tortured for no just cause. Paul Biya and his government have come to cripple us and our future generations. Land of abundance and peace where did we go wrong? We have become refugees by no choice classified stateless.
Land of abundance and peace,we are now homeless and wander in the world. Our farm tools seized by the uniform men and we are now called terrorists.We now feed from hand to mouth with no future,resorting to food banks”.
Nfor Ngala Nfor(SCNC National chairman) heading the team at the Refugee camp in Nigeria,November 2017.
“Land of abundance and peace, we have been chased to the bushes by strangers. Lost and found in another’s territory,Nigeria is not my home. Cried the beloved,I must head home for I was never born to live in another’s house. My home,my home to thee I belong and there shall I live to part no more.
Land of abundance and peace, Mr Paul Biya will not take that from us. A blessed nation with everything in abundance,loving and peaceful. Our gods will continue to watch over us and we shall fight for our freedom till the end.
Yesterday was your partner in crime dictator Yahya Jammeh of Gambia,today Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe etc. and tomorrow will be you dictator Paul Biya of LRC. The voice of the voiceless will be heard with no doubt. Land of abundance and peace never to die”.
Plan of Action
I will die for my country, will resist till our independence granted. “When injustice becomes the law, Resistance becomes duty’’, Thomas Jefferson.
IN THE MIDDLE VINCENT KUSHINE AND EVELINE MAFOR ANUMBOH SCNC ACTIVIST UK AT THE CAMEROON HIGH COMMISSION LONDON UK
When Mr Paul Biya openly declared war on Southern Cameroons in December 2017 nobody would have imagined that a genocide was actually in preparation to send a majority of citizens of Southern Cameroons to their early graves. Unlike on 8 December 2016, 22 September 2017 and 1st October 2017 whereby peaceful unarmed protesters were massacred using helicopter gunships on the streets in Buea and Bamenda, the military of La Republique du Cameroun after the declaration of war by Mr Paul Biya (https://twitter.com/vincentkushine/status/936542954675728385) have been targeting every single Southern Cameroonian even in their homes.
The army appears to have been licensed to kill even the same civilians they’re meant to protect. A young man in Mbingo popularly know as Sam Soya is alleged to have been slaughtered by La Republique du Cameroun military after being arrested and accused of providing magical protection to restoration fighters (https://twitter.com/vincentkushine/status/961582296582246400).
We continue to call on the International Community to intervene and stop the genocide that is being perpetrated on the People of Southern Cameroons Ambazonia by the occupying Forces of La Republique du Cameroun under the Leadership of 85 Years old Mr Paul Biya who has been in power for 36 years.
The crackdown on Southern Cameroonians has already created over 48 000 refugees who have crossed over to Nigeria to seek for protection. On 5 January, 2018 Nigeria violated International Law and abducted and handed over Leaders of the Interim Government of Southern Cameroons Ambazonia to La Republique du Cameroun to be charged under the illegal 2014 Law on Terrorism. https://twitter.com/vincentkushine/status/950703046589341696
There’s need for the international community to stop the genocide and initiate a peaceful dialogue to determine the terms of separation between La Republique du Cameroon and Southern Cameroons Ambazonia.
There has been an unprecedented desertion of major streets in Manyu Division of the South West Region since the declaration of war on the ‘Anglophone secessionists by Cameroon’s President, Paul Biya.
For over 48 hours, the young and old, poor and rich, tall and short alike have been spotted with their baggage on their heads, scampering into neighboring Nigeria to seek refuge in that country.
The situation is further exacerbated by widespread news that the Government has dispatched armed troops to the Division to crush those who have been slaughtering military officers.
On Saturday and Sunday, over 15 military trucks filled with armed troops were seen heading to Manyu Division. Such military razzmatazz came less than 24 hours after the Senior Divisional Officer (SDO) for Manyu, Joseph Oum II, signed a Prefectural Order, declaring Manyu as a military red zone.
In his Prefectural Order, Oum II earmarked 15 villages in the Division and advised the denizens of the villages to vacate their ancestral sites else they will be treated as terrorists by the uncompromising troops.
Even though the Prefectural Order was further rubbished as fake by the Governor of the South West Region, Bernard Okalia Bilai, the Manyu population heeded the SDO’s warning and took to the heels.
Preceding the day many a people of Southern Cameroons have yearned to enjoy freedom at last, the military deployment in the two zones have been invading people’s premises, major streets and meeting points, to chase away people, beating some and arresting others. In Mile 16, Muea, Ekona, Newtown, Half Mile, Kosala, Fiango, Nguti, Nkwen, Santa, Kumbo, and other places in the Southern and Northern Zones, there has been mass raids and arbitrary arrests since Saturday September 23, 2017. Worst still, is the fact that people’s phones are being seized and searched. Should you have anything regarding the restoration of the statehood of Southern Cameroons, you will be arrested. Many have been locked up at detention camps for no just course.
We Shall Shoot To Kill, If Possible – Bernard Okalia Bilai
Colonial Governor, Bernard Okalia Bilai, told reporters that the huge military presence in the Southern zone have been tasked to shoot and kill if anyone gets on the street on or before Sunday October 1, 2017. Speaking in a Press conference held Wednesday October, 27 2017 in Buea, the xenophobe cum ‘agent provocateur’ of LRC, told the media to inform the population to stay home for their good, otherwise, they risk facing their end, should they venture the streets on Sunday October 1, 2017.
Mass arrests in Ekona
“I urge you the journalists to sensitise the population to stay home on Sunday (October 1, 2017). We have raised the security alert to severe. So the security forces you see parading the streets have been instructed to shoot at anyone who shall demonstrate on that day. It is of the best interest of the people to stay safe at home on that day,” Okalia Bilai indicated.
Speaking with all arrogance and authority, the colonial occupant even threatened the press to desist from reporting incidents that can fuel demonstrations. He insisted, due to the desperate times we find ourselves, reporters should apply gatekeeping of information at the highest level.
“It will be of your best interest to avoid reporting things that can implicate you. We are in a desperate time and no stone is left unturn. I urge you journalists to apply your ethics of your profession at all course so as to avoid escalation of violence in (Southern Cameroons),” Okalia Bilai arrogated.
Church services, night travel, and even nocturnal social activities, have been placed under suspension. Reports say, within these times, some special forces are being deployed to enter homes and search for any implicating material.
Francophones deployed As Spies & Vigilante
Meantime, some unknown youths are presently being trained on some information gathering technics in the Northwest and Southwest Regions. These young men allegedly from Douala and Nschang, are going to act as government spies, combing the nooks and crannies of Buea, Limbe and Kumba, so they can fish out possible information linked to the restoration of the struggle. Presented in Buea and Bamenda on Wednesday September 27, the men are being equipped with whistles, torches, and communication airtime, to carry out their espionage.
A Revolutionary Friday in Southern Cameroons: One Message to the Occupier – the Colonial Game is Over.
In 1986, the CIA had predicted as a challenge to the Biya regime that …the Anglophone minority is a potential time bomb and should the government fail to respect their cultural and linguistic traditions … an outbreak of violence … would be a significant setback blow to Biya’s effort to develop national unity and reconciliation” In 2017, at the Cameroun National Assembly, the defiant Hon. Joseph Wirba, of the Jakiri Special Constituency, while addressing his colleagues on the Southern Cameroons crisis, made it vehement clear to whoever cared to listen that …”When the People Shall rise, even if you bring the whole of the French army and add to yours, you shall not be able to stop them”
It was a bright sunny and showery Friday, 22nd September, 2017, with blue and white skies all over the Southern Cameroons. The day the people, from the hamlets to metropolises at home and in the entire diaspora, sent shock waves to the entire world with just one message; the 56 years colonial occupation of the Southern Cameroons by La Republic du Cameroon is over. From little children of 5 years old to grandmas and grandpas of over 90 years, the message was the same; Ambazonia is rising to fall no more.
As early as 8:30 am, the small village of Bafia in Muyuka had lit the peaceful protest candle with a mammoth crowd of over 5000 persons, chanting patriotic/freedom songs and matching towards their Chief’s palace with green branches, and the blue and white colours of Ambazonia. Before the spectacular videos and images from Bafia could be digested on social media, Ekona had already caught the fire and that is how the unquenchable protest flames kept on burning the entire Southern Cameroons, until the early evening hours of the day. By night fall, La Republic du Cameroon and her privileged, anti-revolutionary house slaves who believe in a certain one and indivisible Cameroun were already leaking their wounds. This was however not without some casualties on the side of the peaceful protesters, as many Ambalanders were reportedly shot with live ammunition, with approximately 8 deaths recorded, many wounded and many arrested by colonial forces. Surprisingly, the shootings were not only carried out by the brute colonial forces, but also allegedly by colonial administrators, notably the Senior Divisional Officer for Manyu and the colonial Mayor of Buea.
Apart from the fact that the peaceful protesters all marched into the palaces and offices of their traditional/ local administrative authorities, brought down La Republic’s flags, sang the Ambazonia National Anthem and hoisted Amba flags; there were some ugly incidents and also spectacular moves made by the protesting Southern Cameroonians that are worth mentioning. These events happened in, but not limited to Victoria, Buea, Mamfe, Menji, Batibo, Bali, Bello and Santa.
In Victoria, the protests turned ugly when colonial forces descended on the peaceful people with teargas and live ammunition, this resulted in counter attacks from the people with stones, objects and mounting of barricades, leading to the burning of LRC’s flag and the dead and wounding of some Southern Cameroonians. In Buea, early attempts by colonial forces to disrupt the protests between Mile and Malingo junction with teargas and water cannons failed, as the crowed strength over powered the colonial forces, matching up towards the Bongo Square.
They were however blocked from the Baptist High School by the intimidating forces. The ensuing encounter was teargas and grenades on the population. A grenade landed on a blank house, caught a gas cylinder and the next thing seen of the said house was fire and ashes. As the population retreated down towards check point, the colonial Mayor of Buea whose home is just about 250 meters away from the main road, was caught up in the confusion. As a result, he allegedly fired two shots wounding one and killing another. The angry population descended on his property with heavy stones and objects, and the results were the pictures of his property left overs circulating on social media.
In Mamfe, it was the colonial S.D.O for Manyu that allegedly shot young protesters to death. In Menji, the uncompromising Lebialem warriors did not only bring down La Republique’s flag at the S.D.O’s office, but compelled the S.D.O who happens to be an Ambazonian to sing the Southern Cameroons Anthem with them as the Amba flag was being hoisted; while in Santa, the colonial D.O for Santa and the Principal of GBHS Santa joined the protests, adorned in Southern Cameroon mufflers, and were later escorted by the population to Matazen where they asked them to cross the border and return to their home country, La Republic du Cameroon. This however did not end without the loss of a protester through gun shots from the brutal gendarmes.
In Bello, the protesters were joined by their representative at the National Assembly of La Republique, while those of Batibo marched to the home of their parliamentarian, Joseph Mbah Ndam who made it clear to them that he shall not return to La Republique’s parliament until he sees the end of the struggle. In effect, the people also declared him the administering authority of Batibo and went ahead to hoist the Southern Cameroons flag in his compound.
In the diaspora, while Southern Cameroonians took hostage UN headquarters in their host countries, the show down of the day was at the UN headquarters in New York where the two distinct peoples of Southern Cameroons and La Republic du Cameroon challenged each other in what has been termed the biggest protest so far in the history of protests at the UN Plaza in New York. From the messages emanating from the two protesting camps, it was crystal clear to the world that the Cameroons is made up of two Countries, the British Southern Cameroons and La Republic du Cameroon. Outstanding in the New York protest was the reunion between leaders of the various Southern Cameroons revolutionary movements such as MoRISC, AGC, SCNC, SCYL and above all umbrella body SCACUF and the Southern Cameroons Ambazonia Governing Council (SCAGC).
As the population retreated to their homes and destinations towards the end of the day, an estimated 2.5 million Southern Cameroonians both home and abroad were said to have participated in the protests. The message had been sent to whoever cared to listen; Free All Arrested and Southern Cameroons Ambazonia must be free and the time is NOW. Those who thought that the Restoration Movement was made up of a few self-seeking “secessionists” now understand better what the movement is all about. As for the dying regime and those house slaves who have been singing the chorus of a fathom one and indivisible Cameroon, we hope you got the message clearly yesterday.
When people have been pushed to the wall for so long and with their own eyes day in and out they see people disappear into thin air,there is bound to be an explosion or eruption. That is what 22nd September 2017 was to Southern Cameroonians (S C) headed by women/TAKEMBENG or TAKUMBENG. This same day Mr Paul Biya was presiding over his bag of lies at the UN General Assembly in New York. Southern Cameroons schools have not opened since last year and Mr Biya is that bold to talk when he has deprived us of education which is a basic human right. When women come out in their numbers in a mass protest as ‘Takumbeng” in a traditional way,it means that their “eyes have seen their ears”. This is a traditional way of expressing the severity of an offence. Women go out in numbers putting on old clothes,bright colours clothes etc. The case of Friday 22nd September 2017,women were dressed either in red,white or old clothes. Southern Cameroonians have had enough and can no longer accommodate or bare the barbarism of La Republic. Mothers/women can no longer sit and watch their children disappearing. The militarization of our towns and villages,the unlawfully killings, arrests,threats,etc has unleashed the Takumbengs for an out cry for the gods to hear as well as the international community to rescue us and intervene. So many innocent souls have been lost and enough is enough, we want our independence.
Takumbeng or Takembeng are a female social movement in the North West region of Southern Cameroons. It connects with traditional practices where group of women perform ostracizing rituals against individuals in their communities. Glaring examples could be seen as far back as the 1950s and 1960s towards the end of colonial control and in the early years of independent Cameroon. Since the early 1990s especially in the city of Bamenda, Takumbeng protests have taken place which was another horrible period in the history of S C. This was seen more especially during the presidential election of 1992 in which the results were fraudulent in favour of Mr Paul Biya. This resulted to several deaths, arrests, destruction of public structures etc. (For further reading go to
http://www.google.co.uk/url?q=http://www.yourdictionary.com/africa&sa=U&ved=0ahUKEwj2ppDA8MPWAhUGIsAKHV2LDeoQFggiMAg&usg=AFQjCNGB_g0uAoe4vjpwoYUQdW9PXzDg3w
The “takumbeng have been unleashed” and Southern Cameroons must be free.
The government of Cameroon says its security forces did not abuse protesters during clashes in two regions last month. Students and professionals in English-speaking parts of Cameroon were denouncing what they call the overbearing influence of the French language in the bilingual country. The United States has expressed deep concern about the situation.
Government spokesman Issa Tchiroma says contrary to widespread media reports, the military did not abuse the rights of protesting teachers and lawyers in the English-speaking regions of the central African state.
“The law enforcement officers [military] handled demonstrations in Bamenda and Buea with respect and professionalism, in strict compliance with international norms and commitments of Cameroon in matters of human rights. Investigations are under way and in the event of proven misconduct, the government will take some corrective and disciplinary measures in compliance with the provisions laid down by the law,” he said.
Victim of police brutality
Tchiroma said Cameroon will not tolerate any attempts to disrupt the country’s hard-earned national unity, insisting that requests for Cameroon to return to a federal state, a political system scrapped in a 1972 referendum, can not be granted.
The spokesman said he was reacting to a statement issued November 28 by the U.S. State Department. That release expressed concern about the deaths, injuries and damage that resulted from protests which turned violent in Bamenda and Buea, the respective capitals of Cameroon’s Northwestern and Southwestern regions.
U.S. ambassador to Cameroon Michael Hoza has also expressed concerns over the violence. He met with Cameroon’s president Paul Biya and explained his country’s position on the protests that turned violent.
“It is the American government’s position that Cameroon has great strength and diversity, Cameroon has a wonderful history of tolerance and both President Biya and I agreed that dialogue is the future for Cameroon. We know that there are many discussions and we are certain that Cameroon’s people will find solutions and they have to live together in tolerance as they have for many, many years,” he said.
The ongoing protests were called by English-speaking lawyers, followed by teachers and then university students protesting the dominance of French in Cameroon. The lawyers have complained that some judges posted to English-speaking areas are not fluent in the language.
The U.S. has extended its deferral of all non-essential travel for U.S. embassy personnel to the Northwestern and Southwestern regions until December 6 due to the unrest.
