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The foreign dignitaries who will dine and wine with the colonizer of the people of the Southern Cameroons will be giving comfort to their oppressors; they will be regarded as aiding and abetting an international crime, if not, acting as accessories after the fact. In lending support to this outrageous campaign, they should know that the leader of this country is acting in contempt of the decision last year of the African Union that the Southern Cameroons and the Republic of Cameroun should hold talks to agree on new constitutional arrangements to resolve the burning issue of colonization and assimilation in violation of the inalienable right to self-determination.

By G. Achu
Public Affairs Analyst
M.P.A; LLM (International Legal Studies)
Original Publication: Southern Cameroons/Cameroun Listservs

Regarding the purpose of celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the independence and unification of Cameroun, treated in the previous posting, the main issue is not whether the (de facto) association succeeded) but whether there was a legal Union in 1961 between Southern Cameroons (SC) and Republic of Cameroun (LRC) under the auspices of the United Kingdom as administering authority and the United Nations. From the evidence we have reviewed, the answer is NO.

In 1946, the UN entrusted the administration of French Cameroun and British Cameroons to France and the United Kingdom, respectively, with a mission to run and prepare each of them for independence. Their mission was never to reconstitute or help in reconstituting German Kamerun or parts thereof that vanished before, after or at the end of World War I. The acts of two authorities, permanent members of the Security Council and also of the Trusteeship Council, coupled with the arbitrary acts of the United Nations, resulted in a betrayal of the trust of the international community to ensure that the trust territories evolved unconditionally to separate independence as provided by the UN Charter. Instead of granting independence to British Cameroons as an entirety as was the case of the former German Colonies of Togo, Tanganyika (Tanzania) and South West Africa (Namibia), the UN was instigated to apply a double standard to the Southern Cameroons by forcing it to choose between the devil and the deep sea; that is: independence by joining with Nigeria (from which the SC had separated because of marginalization in 1954) or the LRC (former French Cameroun, embroiled in the French/Ahidjo versus UPC war of independence) .

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If your independence was proclaimed on 1 January 1960, and you are celebrating the 50th anniversary of your accession to sovereignty on 1 January 2010, then it means that your Independence Day which is your National Day, is 1 January. This is fact not fiction! As fact, its universality is unquestionable. For the Republic of Cameroun to be celebrating 1st January and 20th May as National Day, is a dichotomy so stunning that it deserves the opening of a new field of investigation in Political Science and International Relations.

By Vincent N. Feko
Senior Citizen, Human Rights Defender, Group Leader

“Half a century ago, our country’s destiny changed suddenly. On 1 January 1960, our independence was proclaimed. As from tomorrow, we will therefore be celebrating the 50th anniversary of our accession to sovereignty.”( Paul Biya, President of la Republique du Cameroun [LRC], end of year Address, 31st December 2009). The President continues, “The celebrations will naturally culminate in our National Day on the 20th of May.” He adds, “The fiftieth anniversary of independence in 2010 is a prelude to the fiftieth anniversary of Reunification which we will be celebrating in 2011.” This excerpt is the source of the Double Dichotomy.

If your independence was proclaimed on 1 January 1960, and you are celebrating the 50th anniversary of your accession to sovereignty on 1 January 2010, then it means that your Independence Day which is your National Day, is 1 January. This is fact not fiction! As fact, its universality is unquestionable. For the Republic of Cameroun to be celebrating 1st January and 20th May as National Day, is a dichotomy so stunning that it deserves the opening of a new field of investigation in Political Science and International Relations.

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Why has it been so difficult to unite the rather divided Southern Cameroons movements and why are there so many movements fighting for the same cause?

The reason is that those fighting occupation hardly ever do so under one constituted organization or structure. Ideology, tactics and strategy dictate this course. In the anti-Apartheid movement in South Africa, there was the African National Congress, the United Democratic Front, COSATU, Black Consciousness Movement, Pan-Africanist Congress of Azania, Inkhata Freedom Movement, Black Sash etc. In Zimbabwe, there was ZANU and ZAPU amongst the most prominent. In Angola there was MPLA, UNITA , etc. The story was the same for Mozambique, Eritrea, East Timor, and so on. In Palestine, there is Hamas and the PLO. All these groups do constitute one Liberation Movement for their various peoples.

The Southern Cameroons is no exception. There is one Southern Cameroons Liberation Movement that is fighting for the sovereign independence of the former British Southern Cameroons. And yes, there are several groups such as the Southern Cameroons National Council (SCNC), the Southern Cameroons Youth League (SCYL), the Southern Cameroons People Organization (SCAPO) and other groups that have been formed by fighters for freedom that are all are united in purpose for the common cause of freedom from colonial captivity. I would be surprised if you do not know that the occupying state, République du Cameroun expends a lot of time and huge sums of money on what are demonstrably futile efforts to scuttle our national liberation struggle: rented groups and paid individuals (including some of its own citizens) are deployed to cause confusion, diversion and give the perception of division. These are ancient but familiar and ineffectual rearguard actions of all colonial occupiers. No one has ever been fooled, and we are not.

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JOINT COMMUNIQUE

We, the Representatives of the Southern Cameroons National Council (SCNC); Southern Cameroons Peoples’ Organisation (SCAPO); the British Southern Cameroons Restoration Government (in Exile) RG, held a synergic meeting in Buea on the 9th of August 2009 and arrived at the following resolutions which we hereby communicate to all Southern Cameroonians and the world at large:

1. That we commit ourselves and our organisations to a renewed and strengthened Unity of Purpose regarding all endeavours geared towards the restoration of the statehood and independence of British Southern Cameroons.

2. That we shall henceforth and on a regular basis concert on all projects and methods of executing them as a means of moving forward with the struggle for the restoration of our beloved fatherland.

3. We call on all other groups in the liberation struggle to close rungs and join the Unity train for the fast and definitive restoration of British Southern Cameroons.

DONE IN BUEA THIS 9th DAY OF AUGUST 2009.

Signed:

Chief Ayamba Ette Otun ( Nationl Chairman,SCNC)
Augustine F. Ndangam (Vice Chairman, SCAPO)
Mola Njoh Litumbe (On behalf of the British Southern Cameroons Restoration Government)
Fidelis Chinkwo S(ecretary General, SCNC)
Martin F. Yembe (Secretary General, SCAPO)
Barrister Harmony Bobga Mbuton, Counsel.

Others Present in the meeting:
Nfor N. Nfor( Vice Chair, SCNC); Ngiewih Asunkwain (Communication Sec., SCNC); Besong M. Arrey ( SCNC); Taku Sylvester (SCNC Zonal Chair, Southern Zone); Madam Francisca Keffie (SCNC); James Sabum (SCNC); Njonhuo Vincent (Financial Secretary, SCNC); Barrister Ajong Stanislau( Lawyer/ Counsel).

Continuing, Yembe observed that as a journalist and writer himself, he has never known of an occasion when a book launch is done in the absence of the author or even his representative to be presented and to autograph the bought copies! He wondered why the entire Government bench composed only of Southern Cameroonians have to leave their demanding tasks in Yaoundé to join the entire North West ‘Etat Major’ to launch the book of an obscure French writer. Was the Cameroon government mandated by this French boy to promote and launch the book for him, Yembe wondered aloud.

By Martin Yembe as Observer and Participant in Bamenda

Biya’s latest agenda to crush the Southern Cameroons’ struggle and completely implant his “Mr. Clean” image on the citizens of this territory has been made public. The event took the Bamenda people like a storm, when the state-owned CRTV began broadcasting a special news bulletin from NW Governor, on a very high profile delegation from Yaoundé to launch a very important book in Bamenda. The invitees to the book launch were all North West Fons; All CPDM Section Presidents; All members of the Civil Society; all sons and daughters of the North West.

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Cher Philemon:

I am putting you at the head of the Government in spite of the numerous stinking social reports I have of you and your brother Francis Fai. I have decided to take this momentous decision in view of the stakes ahead. So, you must take these assignments scrupulously and effect them in a timely and discrete manner.

First, Philemon, you are the first of those who had come out of ENAM (our French Secret Agent School) to be appointed in this position of Prime Minister. You have the doctrine of the Champs D’Élysées and so you are well Frenchified to carry out a task we will be facing in a few weeks’ time … that of crushing any uprisings in the Bamenda, Kumbo, Nkambe, Mutengene, Kumba, Mamfe areas. You must be aware of the fact that the African Summit of AU has not accorded the awaited independence the SCNC/SCAPO people were envisaging and expecting. I am well informed that there are two squads ready to strike on very strategic targets. I trust you and will want you to seek them out and crush their filaments and satellites ruthlessly “a la Oku”!

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Feko reminded the audience that the Social Democratic Front, SDF was founded to fight for the liberation of Southern Cameroons. The founding fathers of the SDF had set the liberation of Southern Cameroons as their main objective. He regretted that the leadership of the party seems to have forgotten their main goal.

Mola Njoh Litumbe mounted the rostrum to reiterate that there was no unification treaty between Southern Cameroons and la République du Cameroun, LRC. He said LRC was occupying Southern Cameroons illegally. He urged LRC to respect the wishes of the United Nations, which had intended that Cameroon be a federation like that of the island of Zanzibar and Tanzania, with power rotating between both sides.

By Christopher Fon Achobang
Posted in the Southern Cameroons Yahoo Group

Kumba, 5 July 2009: Over 10,000 people thronged to the Kumba Town Green neighbourhood to listen to unity messages from the largest grouping of Southern Cameroons liberation movements, and sympathizers gathered for the occasion under the canopy of the Liberal Democratic Alliance, LDA.

Organized by Mola Njoh Litumbe, founder of the LDA, the rally brought speakers from Southern Cameroons People Organization (SCAPO), Southern Cameroons National Council (SCNC), British Southern Cameroons Restoration Government, BRICAMIA, and civil society.

After the welcome address from Prince Esona, Kumba Boy, Honourable Martin Luther Yembe mounted the stage. He condemned the divisive role played by some members of the SCNC especially Ayamba, who sent out a communiqué calling on SCNC member Read the rest of this entry »

By Sam Nuvala Fonkem in Buea

The diversionary activities of a certain Martin Ateh Chia, said to be the leader of an obscure movement called British Cameroon Britcam, which seem to have been allowed to go unchallenged in recent times ,are now becoming a grave cause for concern and may in the long run prove to be inimical to the Southern Cameroons’ nationalist struggle. We have been made to understand that the said Mr. Chia has been peddling a rather dangerous political doctrine that has begun to sow seeds of discord within the ranks of bona fide Southern Cameroonian nationalists. This dangerous doctrine consists in deceiving unsuspecting Southern Cameroonians who may not have taken the trouble to learn and understand the contours of their tortuous history, a history bedeviled by self-seeking revisionists. collaborators, fifth columnists and congenital traitors.

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