IN RESPONSE TO THE YANG GANG
By The US-Southern Cameroons Foundation
Having completed its Kontchou-like mission of lies, spin, distortion, intimidation and disinformation to the Southern Cameroons, the Yang Gang has returned to its puppeteer in Yaounde. The mission was a complete failure for the Franco-Camerounese occupier because it only succeeded in raising the anger and national consciousness of the Southern Cameroonian population.
The entire performance was classical Camerounese: a complete disregard for established historical facts and truths, that could easily be verified by any secondary school student.
In characteristic fashion they disrespected the intelligence of the Southern Cameroonian population by regurgitating the same stale, meaningless propaganda soup cooked by Amadou Ahidjo over four decades ago.
They failed to address the legitimate issues of occupation, colonization, assimilation and ruthless exploitation of the Southern Cameroons and instead issued naked threats of genocide, telegraphed from their masters in Yaounde and Paris. We rise to address the inventions and myths the Gang raised and to remind Southern Cameroons people of the facts the Yang Gang are attempting to distort:
MYTH 1) According to the French-controlled Yaounde colonial government speaking through its rented Yang Gang "the SCNC has never been a plaintiff in the African Commission" and the "SCNC admission in the UNPO is worthless".
FACT: Commission 266/2003 before the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights [does exist and] is a representative action primarily on behalf of the people of the Southern Cameroons.
Its full name is Dr Kevin Gumne & Ors (on behalf of the people of the Southern Cameroons, the SCNC, SCAPO, and on their own behalf) v. Republique du Cameroun. It is often written in abbreviated form as Kevin Gumne et al. v. Cameroon. Surely even a Yang Gang should be able to understand the concept of representative action.
Paragraph 34 of the admissibility decision declares Communication 266/2003 admissible thus: "The Communication reveals that the authors of the communication are members of the Southern Cameroons National Council (SCNC) and the Southern Cameroons People's Organization (SCAPO), organizations that are established principally to protect and advance the human and peoples' rights of Southern Cameroonians including their right to self determination."
The Camerounese colonial government mounted, paid and sponsored a group, brought it to the Commission's sessions in Dakar and Banjul, and shamelessly tried to parade it before the Commission as 'the real SCNC'. The attempt failed dismally: the Commission declined to listen to members of that hired group, dismissing them as impostors. The paid front men of the Camerounese colonial government's 'SCNC' are a certain 'Chief' Oben, one 'Dr' Tita, and a 'lawyer' James.
The Camerounese colonial Government, speaking through its then Prime Minister, Mr. Peter Musonge, and through one of its Ministers, Mr. Ahmadou Ali, is on record as telling the world about negotiating with the SCNC.
The UN Secretary General while on a visit to Republique du Cameroun advised that country's Government to dialogue with the SCNC.
Responding to a question on the SCNC and the Southern Cameroons de-colonisation during one of his endless 'visits' to France, Biya Paul himself declared, in a rare moment of right thinking, that he himself would submit to a decision by the people of the Southern Cameroons. Typical, he has not had the vision, courage nor good sense to do so.
MYTH 2) According to the French-controlled Yaounde colonial government speaking through its rented Yang Gang the "SCNC admission in the UNPO is worthless".
The SCNC's membership in the UNPO is a fact. That UNPO has observer status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council is also a fact. That UN organ does not grant observer status lightly. The Camerounese government boasts that it can create the NGOs to win observer status in the ECOSOC, but that remains to be seen. The Camerounese government keeps daydreaming and hoping to fool the world into believing that UNPO status for the SCNC is worthless; the fact remains that the Camerounese colonial government knows it alone holds that view. The clearest evidence of this is the recent heated exchange at the UN Human Rights Committee in Geneva between the SCNC Vice-Chair, Mr. Nfor Nfor, and the Camerounese Ambassador in Geneva.
MYTH 3) According to the French-controlled Yaounde colonial government the Southern Cameroons National Council (SCNC) is 'illegal' because "the Ministry of Territorial Administration" has not authorized it.
This is like saying the good people of the Southern Cameroons are 'illegal' and that their territory is 'illegal'; complete nonsense. Neither the SCNC nor the people of the Southern Cameroons nor the territory of the Southern Cameroons require validation from any colonizer for their existence.
When Nazi Germany defeated and occupied France, De Gaulle sought and was given asylum in London, where he formed his Free French government, named himself its leader and waged war against the occupier. Neither De Gaul nor the French Resistance applied to Hitler for legalization and validation of their anti-occupation struggle. Such is the SCN's situation. The Nazi-controlled Vichy Government of the collaborationist Maréchal Pétain even put a price on De Gaulle's head. Which anti-colonial national liberation movement ever applied to the colonizer for legalization?
The good people of the Southern Cameroons duly mandated the SCNC to spearhead their national liberation struggle from enslavement and plunder by Cameroun. The generality of the people of the Southern Cameroons completely identifies with the SCNC, and it identifies with all worthy nationals of the Southern Cameroons. Its ordained mission is the total liberation of the land from Cameroun's colonial occupation, plunder and devastation. That is an inalienable right and a universally legitimate aspiration. The SCNC is under a sacred oath, and discharges an intergenerational responsibility, to prosecute that struggle, come what may, until our Southern Cameroons homeland is de-colonized.
The colonizer's invocation of law is false and baseless in law. The colonizer knows no law, has never respected any law, not even its own. It has never submitted itself to any law. Its international delinquency is well attested and documented. Its annexation and colonization of the Southern Cameroons is a case in point. The French-controlled Yaounde regime was born in fraud and duplicity, has always lived in fraud and duplicity, and sorely needs to recover from fraud and duplicity. The Camerounese political leadership has always been in schizophrenic denial. It is doubtful that, left alone, it could ever be recover from that denial and cease its colonial occupation and plunder of the Southern Cameroons.
MYTH 4) According to the French-controlled Yaounde colonial government, the people of the Southern Cameroons "voted for re-unification" and after 45 years they must "refuse to go back". Moreover, if the Southern Cameroons becomes independent it "will be drowned on both sides by two giants".
These claims are spurious and amount to a fraudulent misrepresentation of facts.
We had 30 years of British colonial connection; then 20 odd years of German colonial connection; followed by 47 years of Anglo-Nigerian colonial connection; and now 45 years of ongoing Franco-Camerounese colonial rule. The British connection ended; the Anglo-Nigerian connection ended; the Franco-Camerounese connection shall end as well. Inexorably! No passage of time can possibly extinguish our determination to reclaim our homeland. Left unchallenged, the Roman Empire would not have ended. If it were not so the Portuguese colonies would not have, after some 500 years, achieved independence. If it were not so the Camerounese entity would not have achieved 'independence' from France after 45 years of French rule. The Camerounese entity was able 'to go back' after 45 years of French colonialism. On what logic then is the Yang Gang able to say 'we refuse to go back', whatever it means by 'we' and 'refuse'.
For 47 years we were ruled from Nigeria. We had, and still have, much more in common with Nigeria than with the strange land called Republique du Cameroun. The former would conceivably have a better claim to our brotherhood than the latter. But we resisted Nigerian domination. The 47 years of our sojourn with Nigeria did not make us Nigerians. We broke free from Nigeria. We established a government in Buea and regulated our country and our lives until the cruel intriguers parceled us off to the Franco-Camerounese predatory and brutal colonialism. The 45 years of Franco-Camerounese colonial rule have not made us, and will never ever make us Camerounese people. The colonizer miscalculated that, by now, we had already been so colonially assimilated that we had lost our national identity. To the colonizer's chagrin, this has not happened. Any colonial assimilation that has not succeeded after half a century will never succeed. Nothing Camerouns does will prevent Southern Cameroons' de-colonisation: not the horsewhip, nor decrees, nor fraud, nor periodic outbursts of deception and disinformation. Nothing! It is like an attempted coup. An attempt to overthrow a regime that lasts two or three days is already a failed coup.
The people of the Southern Cameroons never voted for any 're-unification'; there had been no 'unification' in the first place. There was no such plebiscite alternative. There was no, and never has been any, such thing as 're-unification'. No UN record is known to exist that makes reference to any 're-unification'. There is no known and legitimate instrument anywhere attesting to any 're-unification' between the Southern Cameroons and Cameroun. The plebiscite question, framed by the UN, spoke of 'to join'. The alternative of achieving independence by 'joining' Republique du Cameroun was clearly understood to mean achieving independence by 'federating' with that country. It was so understood by the UN, the UK, the Government of the Southern Cameroons and the government of Republique du Cameroun. The people of the Southern Cameroons expressed an intention, by their vote, to federate with Republique du Cameroun.
'Re-unification' was political rhetoric used by Republique du Cameroun initially to camouflage its expansionist ambition and later to whitewash and pass off its colonization of the Southern Cameroons as merely its internal affair. There is a world of difference between 'federating' and a blind joining, a world of difference between federation and re-unification. The federal association for which the people of the Southern Cameroons voted was consistent with the imperative that the Southern Cameroons achieve independence as stated in the plebiscite question, an independence which the UN General Assembly overwhelmingly favoured in its April 1961 pronouncement. Re-unification, on the other hand, implies absorption of the Southern Cameroons and its complete extinguishment.
Had 're-unification' been one of the plebiscite alternatives it would in effect have meant an invitation to the Southern Cameroons to commit suicide. Had the plebiscite decision been implemented and the declared intention of the people of the Southern Cameroons respected, there would have come into being a two-state constitutive federation. But out of revolting territorial expansionism, out a wicked design to plunder the resources of the Southern Cameroons, and out of gross incapacity to manage diversity and unwillingness to accept divided sovereignty, the French-controlled government of Republique du Cameroun rejected federalism.
In September 1961 Cameroun passed an annexation law (a so-called federal constitution) which disguised the annexation of the Southern Cameroons as a reclamation of lost territory to which it was entitled. In 1972, in pursuance of a criminal conspiracy to that effect by Ahidjo, Biya, Moussa Yaya Sarkifada and Sengat Kuo, the pretense of a federation was jettisoned, and the Southern Cameroons was formally annexed to Republique du Cameroun. A choreographed 'referendum' was staged with the usual 99.999% score that is the hallmark of all totalitarian states. It was then claimed and held till today that by that phony 'referendum,' the Southern Cameroons validated retrospectively its annexation by Republique du Cameroun and, therefore, that the annexation of the Southern Cameroons is colonialism by consent.
In 1984, after twenty-three years of leading a double life and double-dealing for the purpose of evading internal challenge and international scrutiny of its colonization of the Southern Cameroons, Republique du Cameroun finally cast away its mask and assumed its original name in the mistaken belief that its colonial assimilation of the people of the Southern Cameroons was complete and secure. What kind of "joining brothers" is this that the Yang Gang has been parroting of late? And what kind of "going forward" is this that the same Yang Gang has been repeating parrot-fashion? There never was a joining; and there is no fraternal relationship involved here. The relationship involved is that of horse and rider, slave and master, colonized and colonizer. Which slave or colonized ever accepted his dehumanizing status? Spartacus and his fellow slaves had to revolt, knowing they had nothing but their chains to lose.
The rhetoric about being "drowned on both sides by two giants" is the same lie that was branded in 1960. First, the Yaounde colonial government has been holding us under water since 1961, and on that reasoning that government is doing us a favour by colonizing the Southern Cameroons. Second, the Southern Cameroons has not got 'two giants' on both sides, only one 'giant' on one side, Nigeria. Thirdly, this rhetoric ignores the many comparatively even smaller states with comparatively larger neighbours: Burundi, Liechtenstein, Lesotho, Rwanda, Switzerland, Gambia, Equatorial Guinea, and more elsewhere.
MYTH 5) According to the French-controlled Yaounde colonial government, the struggle for the independence of the Southern Cameroons "could lead to civil strife … maimed bodies, child soldiers, refugees".
Not if the Yang Gang and their puppeteer really believe that such casualties should be deprecated and avoided. All the colonizer needs to do is to end at once its colonization of the Southern Cameroons and to withdraw its agent administration. France withdrew from Algeria, Ethiopia from Eritrea, Indonesia from East Timor, and tomorrow Morocco will withdraw from the Western Sahara and Khartoum from Southern Sudan.
We hold the French-controlled Cameroun for any and all consequences of their stubborn and illegal presence on our homeland. It is their unprincipled stubbornness that continues to impose on us the necessity to resort to self-defense measures. Colonialism is aggression. Repelling aggression is lawful, legitimate and moral. No law exists that requires an individual or a people to submit to aggression. If the Yaounde colonial government chooses to impose on the people of the Southern Cameroons the necessity of a forcible national liberation struggle, the people of Southern Cameroons will answer that call of destiny.
While the Yang Gang conjures the spectre of civil strife and its consequences, and seeks to blame its claimed eventuality on the victim rather than on the aggressor, the Gang easily forgets that the Southern Cameroons has been in civil strife ever since it was grabbed by Republique du Cameroun in 1961: the Ebubu murders; the Tombel massacre; the Victoria mayhem; the Ndu killings, rapes, and maimings; the Bamenda pogroms; the Kumbo butchery; the Nyos genocide; the recent killings and mayhem at the University Buea.
Day in day out, over the past 45 years, countless citizens of the Southern Cameroons have been disappeared, tortured, raped, maimed, scarified, disabled, arbitrarily arrested, tried in Kangaroo courts and jailed, and subjected to all sorts of cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment by the colonizer's uncouth agents. Countless others have been robbed of their properties, one way or another. Countless still are daily denied elementary civil liberties. Every citizen of the Southern Cameroons is under psychological torture and all are terrorized and traumatized. So, the assassinations, maimings and civil strife of these past two score and five years are creations of the Cameroun government now paying the Yang Gang to mislead the world.
While the colonizer's territory basks in tranquility and its people remain psychologically settled, the colonizer's soldiers and administrators cross into our land and visit us with all sorts of terror and cruel depredations. The colonizer had long since been waging war on us, taking an unconscionable advantage of our Job-like patience and mottos like 'the force of argument, not the argument of force', to visit us with all sorts of calamities. The colonizer has erroneously interpreted our patience so far as our inability or unwillingness to defend ourselves and oust him. We are already at war!
MYHT 6) According to the French-controlled Yaounde colonial government, "Republic of Cameroon as of today, set off as one country, Kamerun, under the Germans. When the Germans were dislodged after the First World War in 1919, Kamerun was partitioned into the English and French speaking sections." "From 1884-1922 the Germans governed us. From 1922-1961 the League of Nations divided us and handed us to Britain and France. From 1961 –1991 we operated under a single party. From 1991 to date we are a multiparty situation."
This myth is a fraudulent misrepresentation of history, a shameless justification for Republique du Cameroun's expansionism.
The fact is that Republique du Cameroun (even taken together with the colonized territory of the Southern Cameroons) is not co-terminus with erstwhile German Kamerun, the boundaries of which extended to present day Chad, Central African Republic, Gabon, Congo-Brazzaville, and Northern Nigeria. If Republique du Cameroun really wants to bring its 'brothers' together, a better procedure would be to re-assemble these other territories of German Kamerun, many of which are, in fact, ethnically and French-culturally closer to Republique du Cameroun than the English-speaking Southern Cameroons.
The swathe of territory which Germany proclaimed as its Kamerun protectorate in 1884 did not include the territory later to be known as the Southern Cameroons as it then lay in Britain's sphere of influence. Only in 1894, did Britain transfer it to Germany, and effective occupation was not established until the 1890s. At the very onset of WWI and by November 1914, Britain seized the territory later to become the Southern Cameroons, but Germany held unto their original Kamerun protectorate until February 1916. So while we were part of German Kamerun for only twenty-odd years, what is today Republique du Cameroun was German for 32 years!
Germany was not dislodged in 1919 but much earlier. There was no such thing as the partition of Kamerun in English and French speaking sections. How could a German colonial territory have had English- and French-speaking partitions? African history of that period makes clear that the German protectorate was overrun. British-led forces moved in from Nigeria in the west and French-led troops from French Equatorial Africa in the east. Each power occupied the areas it captured. In early 1916, after the Germans had been completely dislodged, an Anglo-French partition of the territory as war booty took place along the Simon-Milner Line.
Under the 1919 Treaty of Versailles, Germany renounced and relinquished all claims and titles to all possessions it had held overseas. The utter defeat of Germany and the consequential extinction of its protectorate entailed the extinguishment of all treaties affecting the territory, except for the territorially grounded treaties that survived.
In 1922, following creation of the League of Nations, Britain placed British Cameroons under the Mandates System, and France eventually did likewise. At the Anglo-French boundary limitation of that year (a follow-up on the Simon-Milner one in 1916) the boundaries of the two mandated territories were neither those of 1894 nor those of 1911 of the German protectorate, but a superimposition of the two, which had the effect of excluding all parts of the protectorate that had been occupied by France at either of those dates.
The British Cameroons and French Cameroun were two separate and distinct mandatory/trusteeship territories with well-defined international boundaries and with nothing in common whatever. They were new polities created in 1922 by the political forces represented by the mandates system. The juridical basis of the existence of each and the international basis of the frontiers between the two are the mandate system, transmuted into the trusteeship system after the Second World War.
The legal foundation of Republique du Cameroun as a country goes back to the inception of French, not German, colonization. The very Francophonity of Republique du Cameroun exposes, as a lie, its ambitious claim to being heir to extinct German Kamerun. The political forces that eventually created Republique du Cameroun are the work of the international tutelage system under which France held the territory as a mandate/trust. On achievement of its independence from France, Republique du Cameroun inherited its territory from France, not Germany. It acquired the subsisting rights and obligations of the French over the colonial territory of French Cameroun. There was in 1960 no German colonial territory known as Kamerun, and therefore no such thing as subsisting rights and obligations of the Germans over it to succeed to. A successor state succeeds from an immediate predecessor, not from a remote predecessor.
If Cameroun's reasoning were correct, Tanzania might claim Rwanda and Burundi on the grounds that they were part of German East Africa and that Tanzania is the successor state to that entity. Such a claim would be absurd and universally rejected.
MYTH 7) According to the French-controlled Yaounde colonial government, the 'registration' of Cameroon at the UN signifies that the UN excludes independence for the Southern Cameroons and approves the territory's colonial occupation by Republique du Cameroun.
The question of the independence of a territory is a matter for its people, not the UN
French Cameroun achieved independence from France on 1 January 1960 under the name Republique du Cameroun. It was admitted to membership of the UN on 20 September 1960 under that name. It speaks volumes that that country has been avoiding its real name like a pest, preferring to parade under the pseudonym 'Cameroun'. Likewise, and this is also significant, Republique du Cameroun has been running away from its independence day (1 January), preferring to hide under a fake national day (20 May). Republique du Cameroun knows that this escapism is critical in sustaining its false existence.
At no time prior to its independence was the Southern Cameroons ever a part of the entity that achieved independence under the name Republique du Cameroun. Nor was the Southern Cameroons a part of that country at the moment of its attainment of independence or at the moment of its admission to membership in the UN. How then can it be said that the Southern Cameroons is "part of Cameroun registered at the UN"? The papers attesting to that 'registration' have never been modified to include the Southern Cameroons as part of Republique du Cameroun.
Over the years Republique du Cameroun has endeavoured to acquire the Southern Cameroons as additional territory. And it is this colonial annexation that the people of the Southern Cameroons have been resisting all these years.
There were, and there continues to be, two Cameroons – the Southern Cameroons and Republique du Cameroun. They are denominated under the Camerounese annexation law of September 1961 as West Cameroon and East Cameroun and are acknowledged under its counterfeit 'republique unie' until Biya, ever a conspirator, hatched a plot he thought would obliterate the Southern Cameroons. It was to erase this tangible reality that Biya naively issued his February 1984 edict proclaiming Republique du Cameroun as the only 'Cameroon' ever to have existed and continuing to exist under the sun. This is the 'one Cameroon' the Yang Gang has been paid to tell the world. As if this fraud on history were not enough, the Gang says this 'one Cameroon' they 'registered' at the UN includes the Southern Cameroons and is co-terminous with the earlier 'German Kamerun'. The nomenclature 'Cameroon' holds no particular attraction to us. We repeat what is true and what we have said before, namely, that at the opportune moment we shall announce a new name for our homeland.
If the Southern Cameroons were a part of Republique du Cameroun the plebiscite would have been unnecessary and UN Article 76 b would not have been invoked in relation to either the British Southern Cameroons or the British Northern Cameroons. Both territories would simply have been handed back to Republique du Cameroun as Hong Kong was handed back to China. Similarly all those parts of German Kamerun now within Gabon, Congo, Chad, and Central African Republic would also have been handed over to Republique du Cameroun. All can now see why there is no Camerounese territorial claim to these territories.
Pay heed
The issue of the hour is not the SCNC, which is just one of Southern Cameroons' many legitimate national liberation movements. The issue is the de-colonization of the Southern Cameroons from Camerounese colonial servitude, plunder and devastation. The colonizer has been in denial all these years, refusing to confront this nagging problem in the vain hope that the passage of time will ensure the acceptance of its colonization. The fact remains that Republique du Cameroun is failing to escape or accept the law of all colonization: It shall know no peace until it ends its colonial ambitions.
It is not a good thing for individuals to betray their own people. The lesson of the Petains and Quislings of this world is that collaborationists like the Yang Gang are a cursed race with a well-attested fate.
The overwhelming majority of our people are no fools. They know what they want, and will settle for nothing less. They are watching and listening and taking mental notes. The day of reckoning shall come, much sooner than many imagine. Those who continue to foolishly tie their fate and that of their families to the person of Mr. Biya Paul and his colonial regime are acting unwisely. Biya Paul and his French-controlled colonial government are already history.
We thank the members of the Gang for advising us to seek our liberation through either a coup d'etat or a national liberation war. There is nothing new in that. We do not need advice on how to attain our sacred objective. If we are fated to follow the path of national salvation as indicated by the Yang Gang, we cannot possibly escape that fate.
Biya and his Beti tribal regime still have unfinished business with Ahidjo's family and friends, in particular, and with the people of the Grand Nord, in general. They still have unfinished business with the Bamileke. They still have unfinished business with the Roman Catholic Church. They still have unfinished business in connection with their role in giving aid and comfort to Rwandese genocide suspects. They still have unfinished business regarding their dismal human-rights record. They still have unfinished business in connection with the institutionalized culture of corruption in that country. The Yaounde Pharoah would do well to attend to these matters rather than continuing to divert attention by their colonial adventurism in the Southern Cameroons.
One unexpected fall out of this circus routine is that it has enabled further clarification among our people as to observe who stands where.
Ideas have consequences. The ideas of genocide, 'road executions', 'armed robber' executions, and 'summary executions' on sight, discussed by the French-controlled Yaounde colonial government and loudly expressed with so much relish by the Yang Gang have calamitous consequences. Mr. Inoni, Mr. Achidi Achu, Mr. Yang, Dr. Dion Ngute, Mr. Hillman Egbe and their confederates would do well to heed the advice of Barrister Taku and listen to Hon. P. Jua's voice of reason. Those they warn are merely expendable hired hands. When the heat falls on Mr. Biya Paul, other conspirators will flee in the vain hope of cheating international law.
WE SHALL NOT BE FRIGHTENED. WE SHALL NOT BE INTIMIDATED. SHOULD THE YAOUNDE COLONIAL GOVERNMENT PERSIST IN KEEPING US UNDER COLONIAL SLAVERY OR RELAPSES YET AGAIN INTO ITS CULTURE OF VIOLENCE, WE STILL RESERVE THE RIGHT TO FIGHT BACK IN LEGITIMATE SELF-DEFENCE
Done by the US-Southern Cameroons Foundation (A Southern Cameroons Think tank and policy institute) on behalf of the SCNC of the Cameroons, Africa, Europe and the American diaspora.
Carlson Anyangwe
Tayoba Ngenge
Emil Mondoa
Januarius J. Asongu
Andrew Edimo
Stephen Shemlon
Kenneth Komtanghi
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Man this is a "Conspiracy Theory".whona chop wona adoro left we for Payee oh.Any Right thinking person who want change or to Liberate will not be sitting in USA and advocating for it.He will be here in Cameroon and fighting for it.
We all understand the HEAD wey whona di play for USA inoder to get asylum money.We also understand that Adoro don di trong since they have been string of messures to curb immigrants especially from Africa.
Don`t be building Castel in the Air men.Come and face reality.
Posted by: Africa | Saturday, 01 October 2005 at 04:35 PM
Africa, you could not be more mistaken. Citizens in the diaspora and non-citizen friends have always been a crucial component in any struggle for freedom. The American revolution would not have succeeded without important inputs from France. In our own times, the demise of apartheid was a consequence not just of the revolts in the townships, but because of the steady drum beat of sanctions, global demonstrations etcetera. The leadership of the ANC was in exile and led effectively. The Southern Cameroonian on the ground like his South Africa counterpart of the 80s is poor, deprived of resources and freedom. They needed the people in the diaspora to provide oxygen to the movement. Even East Timor and the Soviet Union depended on external forces to a significant degree in order for change to occur.
Mr or Ms Africa, it would help to read up on your African history and politics so that you could better deserve that mighty name.
Posted by: Ma Mary | Saturday, 01 October 2005 at 06:46 PM
Ma Mary you have said it all. I am sure Africa does not understand the facts well, otherwise he would not label truth as conspiracy theory. It would do us a great educative service if Africa could explain why he considers these facts as myths.
Africa, it is true that many people have exploited the political situation in Africa for personal gains, yet that does not make every person who speaks for the oppressed people a gombo man.The names in the signatures to this declaraion are all people who can bake their own bread without pleading for a space in Uncle Sam's oven. Consider Carlson Ayangwe, for instance. Before taking up the Anglophone struggle,he was a distinguished professor with a ranking equal to the Ngwasiris, Angwafors et al. But he had a vision for his people, a dream he was willing to fight for even if he had to give up his position at the University of yaounde, give up the prospects of one day becoming a minister, a pupet minister, in Biya's cabinet. He was ready for exile. And exile gives him the liberty to use that voice which would have long been stiffled or distorted like the Yangs are trying to do now with those crisscrossing Ambazonia stiring the people into consciousness.
Posted by: FERDMBECHA | Saturday, 01 October 2005 at 08:03 PM
This is no rhetoric, it`s the history we need to get in our blood. Else if you forget who you are, where you are coming from, you will hardly know where you are going.
All S.Cameroonians, who can`t master the facts,will do well,to print this important historical document,by the U.S based think tank and keep alongside other important docs.You`ll hardly get such clean facts in most textbooks.
One recommendation for the think tank; your submission should be engraved or patterned ``On behalf of SCNC in Cameroon and diaspora``
If we leave it at what you wrote, the mass of S.Cameroonians in S.America and Asia, notably in Brazil and China respectively will feel excluded.
Posted by: MBU. B | Saturday, 01 October 2005 at 11:21 PM
This fight being advocated by some anglophone Cameroonians through the so-called SCNC may be legitimate but useless and of no substance in the eyes of the international community which they are all hoping on to intervene in one form or the other to call for some kind of attention. The international community and its organs of today looks at the world of today from a different perspective, with a different vision. Today it would be a good thing for the anglophones in Cameroon to stop whining unnecessarily and focus more on their economic development that will inevitably call for reasonable sympathy from the international community. The UN which most or all of the SCNC are basing their hopes on has always given you a minimal attention and will never commit itself in any way reasonable to that cause. So it is of no use running on the wrong road. All i know is that anglophone Cameroonians want to make their voices heard in the negative because that used to be the principal method of the past but today, that is hadly the case, especially today that the world knows Cameroon to their finger tips more than you Cameroonians, and they reasonably believe there is enough room for you to make your voices heard in the world through development, not lamenting of being marginalized. What kind of developments have you carried out or want to carry out and the govenrment says you shouldn't? Has Cameroon not had anglophone ministers since the reign of Late Ahidjo? What actually did they do and what are the present anglophone ministers actually doing to bring out development strategies to their people? Do not say the investment climate in Cameroon is not conducive, after all Cameroon hasn't even gotten the worst legal framework on earth. All we have to do is to start building a sense of honesty, trust and seriousness not sending out empty slogans as if we are still in the 19th century.
Posted by: Reader | Sunday, 02 October 2005 at 04:36 AM
Mr Reader or whoever you may be, if you are one of the yang sponsored conspirators, i would advice you to get your sick brain treated or you back-off. Any way people like this with no mastery of facts, poor analytical skills, uninformed and the worst of all lack of the willingness to learn or read even when information is provided for free by learned people like Prof Anyangwe must reason the way you do. You must be a fruit seller at the food market in Bamenda i suppose. I regret it because people like you are too good to live but too bad to be the way you are. You are talking about people bring up projects, what happened to those that existed before this government came up which kept that economy better off than it is now or how well is the government encouraging investment. is it UNVDA, MEDINO,CDC or WADA to name a few. I know you'll say there's still medino or CDC, ha!ha! no analysis. I know you cann't even assess the impact of taxes and government spending on the investment level purchsing power of an economy. You have not tried finding out why foriegn investments are dropping or are you even aware that BIYA himself expressed worries about cameroon's ailing economy? how can the father express worries about the bad state of his house yet you[an outsider] say all is well. What you fail to realise is that we are not waiting for the UN to solve our problems for us but are fighting for what we know is ours. My brother it is taking greater risk by not taking risk. No one has to tell you that eating your cake and having it are mutually exclusive and if you cann't reason beyond your nose, then too bad. What is it were you doing at 04:36AM instead of sleeping. This site is for constructive thoughts not for morons. Stay off. ha!ha!ha!
Posted by: ATS | Sunday, 02 October 2005 at 07:54 AM
Many thanks Mr ATS for taking your valuable time to expose your narrow and inferior brain as far as world affairs are concerned. Look the SCNC has no legitimate case any where. Talking of colonization is completely out of question. No body has colonized any body. The problem in Cameroon is gross mismanagement of its meager resources and not even the so much talk of marginalization which legally has no grounds, mark you if you don't know. These SCNC ADVOCATES are not different from Paul Biya, they are all killing time. Put them in the shoes fo Biya you get the same problems. They are neither better nor worse than Biya. You think you understand the Cameroon you are living in? Look, there better things to be done than SCNC nonsense.
Posted by: Reader | Sunday, 02 October 2005 at 08:58 AM
Mbu B. and others have said it all. This is a seminal document. Mr. or Mrs. Reader is the victim of "Brasseries du Cameroun". The drunken verbiage by Reader is meaningless talk.
No one should underestimate the People of Southern Cameroons or her sons and daughters in the Diaspora. We are united by a common goal to drive off a black colonizer from our land by peaceful means.
If the Colonizer continues her exploitation and abuse of a defenseless nation under occupation, then the next phase of this "struggle" will involve an active, documented and factual campaign for international sanctions against La Republique du Cameroun the likes of which she has never known.
The lawless state called La Republique du Cameroon obeys no treaty and is herself a neo-colony of Gaullist Africa. These are the people who aided Genocide in Rwanda in the same year that the Leader of La Republique du Cameroun was Chairman of the now defunct Organization of African Unity. They tried to hide the truth but the BBC and other News Organizations found out.
Long live the Federal Democratic Republic of Southern Cameroons.
Dr Odine.
Posted by: Dr Grace Odine | Sunday, 02 October 2005 at 11:59 AM
Poeple like reader and Africa are just some sponsored Noise makers who have been hired to make sabotage the journey to justice and freedom unleashed by Ambazonians against a mixture of black and white brigand thugs and ruthless toerags, who remained dogged to conduct pillage and plunder of their resources
and their country,colonial boys from Yaounde.
Yours opinoins have no leverage,and thus inponderable.Ambazonians are fully awair that,they have to act trenchantly to wean themselves from ruthless frogs domination.No way for you sirs.
Posted by: Ndiks | Sunday, 02 October 2005 at 01:30 PM
If we are what you mean then Ndiks by all respect and defination you and the so call SCNC are Terrorist.They should be no way forward but to elimate you all.
The only way to Bring progress to the Country and the continent is through dialouge and Unity.Not by banishing people as colonizers and Ruthless frog Domination.
Posted by: Africa | Sunday, 02 October 2005 at 03:07 PM
Unity my head.Since when did restorationist began to call for dialogue.If we are terrorist
,you will yield to us just as apartheid south Africa did to ANC.You are starved with facts.You may just be coming from the village and need to know more on what you say.Don't palpitate.Restoration is moving undeterred.
Posted by: Ndiks | Sunday, 02 October 2005 at 03:52 PM
Unity is a good thing; unity as Africans in the common things that all Africans share. However, we do not want your colonial governors governing us, we do not need your neocolonial president; we do not want your corrupt bribe-taking cops on our streets nor your dirty french money in our wallets.
We want unity, the same way there is unity between France and Germany. They are united as Europeans, but you do not have German police on the streets of Paris and you do not have a French government in Berlin.
Once things have stabilized, you could even live in the Southern Cameroons and apply for Southern Cameroons citizenship. This has nothing to do with families. Civilized countries do not prevent families from coming together to do the things that families do. Is la republique a civilized country? I leave you to answer that one for yourself, because I do not want to insult your country more than necessary. Is Southern Cameroons a civilized country---affirmative, just check our records the time we governed ourselves from 1954 till 1971.
I think that is easy enough for you to understand.
Posted by: Ma Mary | Sunday, 02 October 2005 at 05:15 PM
There is no point talking about UNITY with La Republique du Cameroun (LRC). The only deal is for LRC to pull out her military and agent administration from our land. Those who do not learn from history like Mr Africa end up repeating past mistakes.
LRC is culturally programmed to break rules a la maniere francaise. Who does not know the meaning of the idiom “to take a french leave”?
Martin
Victoria - Economic Capital
Federal Republic of Southern Cameroons
Posted by: Martin | Sunday, 02 October 2005 at 08:15 PM
To the POST,
What's happening? This is day three after the most heralded and mobilized sensation to mark SCNC activities last October 1st and your readers must have been expecting to read the story by now but nothing as yet.
Posted by: Reader | Monday, 03 October 2005 at 01:02 AM
celui qui lire, maybe l'armee d'occupation franco-camerounais is harrassing the post. wait and see. The post puts articles up twice a week, i think. you can always check up on the dimabolizer screed, cameroun tribune for the colonial version.
Posted by: Ma Mary | Monday, 03 October 2005 at 06:05 AM
Ma mary thanks for telling him what to do and may be that's what he should do further to get some more facts into his raving brain. Mr Reader you've got work to do. I like calling such people morons.ha!ha!ha!
Posted by: ATS | Tuesday, 04 October 2005 at 07:02 PM
Yang gang is disloyal and untrustworthy. If you are thinking about hiring him, i am not saying not to hire him, what i am saying is be careful. he is very untrustworthy and very greedy. He likes to steal from his freinds and the people that care about him the most. He will lie to you to get what he wants he is a master munipulator and can seem charming and harmless but he has cost a freind of mine THOUSANDS! www.Goshee.com is what he was paid to code, but for some odd reason he decided that it was best that he not only keeps the money but also steal the code as well as the ideas of Micheal Murphy. I am posting these warnings so that the same mistake doesnt happen twice. yang Gang is a bad man and must learn from this, i only hope that he will learn loyalty most of all. thank you for taking the time to read this i iwsh you good luck. ( More information relating to this can be found at www.Goshee.com) - Adrian Collier
Posted by: Adrian Collier | Friday, 07 July 2006 at 12:37 AM
Yang gang is disloyal and untrustworthy. If you are thinking about hiring him, i am not saying not to hire him, what i am saying is be careful. he is very untrustworthy and very greedy. He likes to steal from his freinds and the people that care about him the most. He will lie to you to get what he wants he is a master munipulator and can seem charming and harmless but he has cost a freind of mine THOUSANDS! www.Goshee.com is what he was paid to code, but for some odd reason he decided that it was best that he not only keeps the money but also steal the code as well as the ideas of Micheal Murphy. I am posting these warnings so that the same mistake doesnt happen twice. yang Gang is a bad man and must learn from this, i only hope that he will learn loyalty most of all. thank you for taking the time to read this i iwsh you good luck. ( More information relating to this can be found at www.Goshee.com) - Adrian Collier
Posted by: Adrian Collier | Friday, 07 July 2006 at 12:37 AM