NO TO HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE IN SOUTHERN CAMEROONS (AMBAZONIA) 

It all started in October 2016 when Layers and Teachers took to the streets for a peaceful demonstration to air their views and frustration about the government of Cameroon for asking for equal opportunities in their homeland (Ambazonia) and as we speak today it resulted in people being locked up in Prison and Cells.
After the peaceful demonstration that resulted in people being locked up in prisons life has become so so frustrated. This frustration has resulted to thousands upon thousands of lives lost, villages have been burnt, houses burnt by the military of French Cameroon and for three years now and more our parents, brothers and sisters have been suffering from this barbaric crack down between the military force of French Cameroon and the Ambazonia force, approximately 40000 plus civilians have lost their lives, 60000 plus civilians are either living in the bushes or seeking refuge in neighboring Nigeria.
The continue unrest resulting in youths running into the bushes for their life meanwhile as young as there are, are meant to be in school for studies so as to hope for a better future but those same schools are either being burnt down or used as a military base by the French Cameroon force. Young people don’t even have the opportunity to contribute to the society with no job opportunities, no peace. The few brave once are being accused as being terrorist in their own homeland. They is a continues repression by the arm military and this situation has now resulted into an arm conflicts. Young men and women have now pick up weapons to defend themselves and their family members. An estimated 10000 plus men and women have been killed in this senseless war in southern Cameroon by the French Cameroon military.
As frustrating as it is in Cameroon now many children have not only been made homeless but have also been made Orphans as many children have lost them life and some have been displaced from their relative as there struggle to look for safety.
Many villages have been burnt to arches in southern Cameroon by the La Republic Arm Forces and many more properties destroyed.
Southern Cameroonians all over the world in the diaspora have been playing a vital role in connection to the Anglophone Crises with a good number of demonstrations that have been carried out in various parts/countries of the world by disgruntled southern Cameroonians. All this because we fear for our family members back home are subject to gross human right violation from the French Cameroon Government. Another means or methods being used is via the social media to spread the message to the international community to see what is going on in Southern Cameroon. Pictures and videos of the brutal regime of President Pau Biya of French Cameroon have been shared on social media to show the extend at which the southern Cameroonians are being tortured, killed, rape by the military of French Cameroon.
As a result of the activities of southern Cameroonians in the diaspora, many southern Cameroonians coming from the diaspora are being arrested at the port of entry in Cameroon and being accused of supporting or sponsoring the armed separatist and spreading secessionist ideas. This has put so much fear in us southern Cameroonians so much so that we fear for our life that returning home is not a safe place to go YOUR OWN HOME COUNTRY. A situation whereby going home for family issues or holiday is out of place.

Pepandze N Anye ( SCNC ACTIVIST )

The cultural heritage of the people of British Southern Cameroons must be protected, we will resist.

Our leaders such as Frederick Alobwede Ebong, Andrew Azong,Charls Mbide and Henry Fossung and many more before us never gave up the fight for our freedom, which is why our (SCNC)National Chairman Nfor Ngala Nfor is presently detained by Biya and his government, not leaving out Sisiku Ayuk Tabe and other Abazonian leaders who were arrested in Nigeria and extradited to Cameroon in January 2018.

We the people of British Southern Cameroon are tired of being annexed by the French Cameroon,We want our independence and total freedom, it is for this reason that the octogenarian regime of the 87years old poul Biya are out to destroy southern Cameroonians completely and weaken us in such a way that we will take more than three decades to stabilise and rebuild our village’s, Towns and cities and as well assimilate our plans.
Proof of it:why is the military targeting and burning place?- to destroy the base and roots of who we are as a people and our culture! That is what keeps us strong and bonded. We see the military burning down villages and homes of innocent southern Cameroonian civilians even when they are aware no one possesses threat to them in those houses. It’s all to disperse our people and render us wanderers so that our unity will be destroy, families are separated, many are now in the bushes or refugees in Nigeria and other countries. It is clear that more than 3000 southern Cameroonian civilians have been killed by Cameroon Soldiers, 530000 internally displaced and more than 40000 southern Cameroonian civilians are refugees in Nigeria as of July 2019. When you separate families you destroy society.
The French government and it’s military also take our innocent southern Cameroonian men, women and children from their home’s and shoot them at close range, just to instill fear and terror in us all as a people of British Southern Cameroon so that we can abandon our call for independence. Look at what the military did in Bali on the 18th of January 2020, they burnt down home’s in the heart of the Town with cars of innocent southern Cameroonian civilians. All what the French government and it’s military are doing is part of their plan to destroy southern Cameroonians completely.
It is for this reasons that, the SCNC is using this platform and many more to call on the world and common wealth Nations to see the genocide going on in our mother land southern Cameroon and to help us preserve our heritage, values and culture as a people as it is being destroy by the military. A place where we call home, the land of our birth! That place where even when our time on earth is over, we return to for our soul to rest In peace-, is that place the military is burning down each day. Our people are running day and night for fear of been killed by French Cameroon Soldiers.
The SCNC and the people of British Southern Cameroon ask, for how long will the world watch and stay quite while our people are suffering. One thing is certain victory is our’s, it may take long but our independence and total freedom is on it’s way. The is light at the end of the tunnel.
By Akime Cecilia.

             EMOTIONS OF A TROUBLED AMBAZONIAN

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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 30^th 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.

     NOT ALL LIVES MATTERS IN  CAMEROON

THE ASSIMILATION OF SOUTHERN CAMEROONS  BY LA REPUBLIQUE DU CAMEROON.

               Cry of the Innocent

It was on 22^nd 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

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 20^th 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

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