Southern Cameroons Interim Government

Professor Carlson Anyangwe Assumes Control of the Southern Cameroons Struggle

Citizens of the British Southern Cameroons:

This year marks 150 years of continuing colonisation of our Homeland: British from 1858 to 1887; German from 1888 to 1914; British again from 1915 to 1961; Cameroun Republic from October 1961 to date. Few peoples in the world have had such a chequered and cruel fate. And so we fight to be free. We fight to have full control over our lives and our land. We fight for our future. We fight for our God-given territory. We fight to manage our own affairs. We fight to live a life of dignity as human beings free from fear and want. We fight not for the past. We fight for the future. We fight for the future of our children. Our children deserve a place they can legitimately, proudly, truly and freely call home. It is quite unimportant whether we ourselves as individuals live. But it is essential that, like other people, we as a people live. It is essential that the British Southern Cameroons, by whatever name we eventually choose to baptise it, shall live; and that even as a small nation, it has every right to exist.

Fellow Southern Cameroonians, the use of the term "British" at this point in our struggle must be explained. We are not trying to become British, but we respect the rules. In 1984, the Cameroun Republic reverted to its original identity before its union with the Southern Cameroons. In so doing, Cameroun Republic seceded from the pretended union, but has illegally held on to us as a colony. We had no choice but to revert to our pre-union identity and to resume our decolonisation efforts. The issue of our name has been a cause of much argument in this struggle. One of the first acts of this government will be to obtain through a fair and open process a suitable and final name for ourselves from the genius of our people. That name would in all likelihood be neither "British" or "Cameroons".

October 1, 2007: Reiterating a Promise

A SOLEMN PROMISE TO HONOR THE LAW OF RETRIBUTION

Before October 1961 the Southern Cameroons was a haven of freedom, peace and steady progress. But tragedy soon struck! In that fateful month of that fateful year the good people of the Southern Cameroons began their descent into hell. They became tragically linked to République du Cameroun by the cruel history of colonial occupation and other forms of imperial plunder. The people of the Southern Cameroons became “a little gift to France from the Queen of England” as Charles de Gaulle said.

For almost half a century now we are locked in a bitter anti-colonial national liberation struggle to free ourselves from the colonial yoke and plunder of a Yaoundé colonial government aided and abetted in its cowardly crimes against humanity in our Homeland by an ex-colonial power that had itself tasted the bitter pill of alien occupation.

The French-controlled Yaoundé colonial government has licensed its loathsome colonial agents in our land to plunder our resources and to murder, torture, terrorize, persecute, abduct, and imprison our people at will and for their psychopathic pleasure. The hands of the French-controlled Yaoundé colonial government are soaked and dripping with the blood of nationals of the Southern Cameroons.

We shall put an end to this criminal activity and expel the colonizer from our Homeland. We shall impose accountability on the coloniser and his agents in the Southern Cameroons. We shall end the pervasive culture of impunity that obtains in République du Cameroun and free that country of its historically attested culture of violence.

We repeat that we will not and cannot obey the decrees and edicts of the colonizer. There is no legal or moral basis that warrants us to do so.

We will ensure and exact retribution from every agent of République du Cameroun who lays his diseased hands on any one of our people. These odious agents also have families. We cannot allow them to continue systematically to murder, maim, torture and imprison members of others’ families and get away with it. We will exact retribution wherever the criminal and those associated with him may be and irrespective of how long that will take. We shall hunt and hound them, one after another. They can temporarily be sheltered by the French-controlled Yaoundé criminal regime, but they will not be sheltered for long. They can run, but they cannot hide.

We have a responsibility to protect our people even as we prosecute to its logical conclusion the national liberation struggle against a colonialism that is most foul and depraved. We have an inter-generational responsibility to free our Homeland from République du Cameroun’s imperialist occupation and plunder.

From this day onwards, République du Cameroun’s colonial agents and sponsored predators will no longer harm our people and plunder our resources without our exacting retribution commensurate with the enormity of their crimes.

From this day onwards, whoever dares to hurt any of our people will be sorted out consistently with the eternal law of self-defence, including pre-emptive self-defence, and the internationally recognised necessity to end the culture of impunity for international crimes, including the crime of colonialism.

In this connection, we have instructed Counsel to consider and initiate proceedings in an appropriate forum against the under-mentioned most responsible individuals for crimes against humanity:

1. Yvon Omnes, former French ambassador to République du Cameroun and Special Adviser to Cameroun President;

2. Biya Paul, the Life French Viceroy who heads the blood-suffused regime of République du Cameroun;

3. Bell Luc René République du Cameroun’s one time colonial ‘gouverneur’ in Bamenda who ordered grenades to be used against peaceful marchers and personally supervised the pogrom in Bamenda;

4. Private Ahidjo, ‘the Butcher of Kumbo’, foot soldier in the Kumbo garrison of République du Cameroun’s colonial occupation forces;

5. Koumpa Issa, République du Cameroun’s choleric and delusion-afflicted colonial ‘gouverneur’ in Bamenda;

6. Col. Mpaye, ‘the Butcher of Bepanda’, and one time commander of République du Cameroun’s colonial occupation forces in Bamenda;

7. Mbonda Thomas Ejake, République du Cameroun’s sanguinary colonial ‘gouverneur’ in Buea who personally supervised the butchery and mayhem by the colonial forces of occupation at the University of Buea in 2005;

8. Bilai Okalia, the delusional colonial ‘prefêt’ in Victoria, prime accomplice of Mbonda Ejake in the butchery and mayhem at the University of Buea in 2005;

9. Col. Gadjama, head of the colonial gendarmerie force in Bamenda;

10. Louis Eyeya Zanga, République du Cameroun’s sanguinary colonial ‘gouverneur’ in Buea who personally supervised the butchery and mayhem by the colonial forces of occupation at the University of Buea during the UB Medical School list protests in 2006;

11. Jacques Fame Ndongo, République du Cameroun’s sanguinary minister of the so-called Ministry of Higher Education who forcefully enrolled his unqualified tribesmen as students at the University of Buea Medical School, and along with Louis Eyeya Zanga supervised the butchery and mayhem by the colonial forces of occupation at the University of Buea during the UB Medical School list protests in 2006;

We continue to update and study the files of other criminals eventually to be added to this list.

Forward all relevant information, including names of perpetrators, place of incidents, time and date of incidents, name of witnesses etc. etc. to: DefCon@southerncameroonsig.org

"Southern Cameroons" and the "SCNC": The Birth of Consciousness

August 17, 2007

Like the hard line French surrogate Hutus in Rwanda who carried out a French-sponsored genocide but lost power, the regime in la Republique du Cameroun, erected after the successful implementation of another French-sponsored genocide in the 1950s and 1960s and still in power, have remained absolutely intransigent to civilized calls for dialogue to bring a peaceful end to the brutal and illegal Franco-Camerounese occupation of the Southern Cameroons.

Fourteen years ago, in early April of 1993, in what can be considered to be the re-birth of the Southern Cameroons consciousness that led to the creation of a genuine Liberation Movement in the Southern Cameroons against French rule, which includes the Southern Cameroons National Council (SCNC), SCYL and others, the Buea Declaration of the All Anglophone Congress was made. It began thus:

"We, the people of Anglophone Cameroon, from whom a representation of more than five thousand delegates coming from a total of thirteen regions which make our territory (Boyo, Bui, Donga-Mantung, Fako, Kupe-Manenguba, Liabelem, Manyu, Meme, Menchum, Mezam, Momo, Ndian, Ngonkitunjia) as well as the entire Cameroon, having in its midst experienced politicians and old traditional leaders, spiritual and religious chiefs, leaders of political parties, deputies and members of the Economic and Social Council, peasants, workers, students and elites of all professions, are assembled in Anglophone congress, at the Mount Mary maternity center in the historic town of Buea, this second and third day of the month of April 1993, with an aim of adopting a joint position of all Anglophones with regards to the national debate on constitutional reform which will soon open, as well as to examine other subjects which relate to our wellbeing and that of our descendants, our territory and the entire nation of Cameroon."

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NO RUPTURE: Sarkozy Insults Africa and Preserves Francafrique

July 31, 2007

A preening Mr. Nicolas Sarkozy during a press conference in Gabon said that "one cannot blame everything on colonisation... the corruption, the dictators, the genocides, that is not colonisation." Where Jacques Chirac had left off telling Africans that democracy was a luxury for them and they should worry instead about their bellies, Mr. Nicolas Sarkozy continued by declaring at the University of Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar earlier in his mini-tour of Africa that the "African peasant only knows the eternal renewal of time, rhythmed by the endless repetition of the same gestures and the same words ... in this imaginary world where everything starts over and over again, there is no place for human adventure or for the idea of progress." In not so many words, like Jacques Chirac who preceded him, Mr. Nicolas Sarkozy exposed his instrinsic and instinctive belief of Africans to be sub-humans, animals.
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The French rupture with the past Mr. Sarkozy spoke of, as we predicted, does not apply to sub-humans. Mr. Sarkozy has underscored this by pointedly meeting 2 brutal, corrupt and long-serving African dictators (who incidentally are being sued in French courts for corruption and embezzlement) at the beginning of his term: Omar Bongo Ondimba who became the president of Gabon in 1967 when Mr. Sarkozy was all of 12 years old, and Dennis Sassou Nguesso of Congo who has been president on and off for 23 years, just under half of Mr. Sarkozy's 52 years on earth.

When the French and their imperial president terminates the Cooperation Agreements linking them to their former colonies that continues to enforce colonial practices and has effected genocides in la Republique du Cameroun, Rwanda and Congo-Brazzaville and massive massacres in Algeria, Madagascar and Cote d'Ivoire, then Mr. Sarkozy will be taken seriously.

For the people of the Southern Cameroons, we once again call on the imperial French President, Mr. Nicolas Sarkozy de Nagy-Bocsa to end their colonial occupation of the Southern Cameroons by immediately removing their Operation Aramis from our territory.

The Southern Cameroons IG views Operation Aramis as being similar to the Operation Noirot that preceded and mestatasized into the nerve center of the French genocide in Rwanda in 1994.

The Southern Cameroons IG considers the declarations made during la Republique du Cameroun's recent elections by high-ranking officials of the French-sponsored Yaounde regime such as Mr. Etame Massoma and Ephraim Inoni stoking bigotry and "ethnic" hatred similar to declarations that were being made by Rwandese officials under the protection of Operation Noirot and the tutelage of France that lead up to the French genocide in Rwanda. These are practices that are being encouraged by the French advisers in Yaounde, la Republique du Cameroun.

The Post newapaper (No. 0879 of July 30, 2007) quotes Mr. Etame Massoma as saying a rival political party was "an anglophone [Southern Cameroons] party, that had nothing to do with francophones [citizens of the French la Republique du Cameroun]." Mr. Ephraim Inoni on his part campaigned in his native Southwest province against what he termed a "Northwest party" by instructing local administrators not to allow a win of a rival political party perceived to be relatively less unpopular, according to media reports. Reacting to these declarations, the head of the rival political party was quoted in The Post as saying: "We see in this trend the same type of discrimination that built up to the Rwanda genocide."

Going by the French historical record in Africa that Mr. Sarkozy is positioning himself to perpetuate, we tell him that France's current de-facto status as colonial master in francophone Africa and in the Southern Cameroons promotes corruption, dictators and genocides.

We call on the French, President Nicolas Sarkozy de Nagy-Bocsa and their colony, la Republique du Cameroun, to leave the territory of the Southern Cameroons in accordance with international laws.

The Uncompleted De-colonization Process of the Former Trust Territory of British Cameroons

By Mola Njoh Litumbe

Extracts from British Declassified Documents on the Southern Cameroons

“In particular we must be very careful about independence and temporary sovereignty lest N. Cameroon is likely influenced not to join Nigeria. This I believe is the overriding consideration. So we must be more or less tough with Foncha that joining his Cameroun Republic does not allow sovereignty for a term (sic) of years and then a Federation.”

“Any idea of a prolonged period of continued Trusteeship or of separate independent existence of the Southern Cameroons must be ruled out. This should be made clear at an early date to Foncha.”

“First of all I take it that objections hitherto seen to establishment of a separate Southern Cameroons State remain as strong as ever …. I am therefore assuming in what follows that our policy remains strongly against such a solution.”

“If Southern Cameroons political parties did combine to take action envisaged in paragraph 2 of telegram under reference, this would place us in a very embarrassing position. With support of moderate Afro-Asians and others, we have always argued that separate independence would produce an entirely unviable State. We have supported a unanimous resolution prescribing plebiscite which involves choice between Nigeria and Cameroun Republic.”

“I think it is important that we should not allow this matter to slide, as may happen if we are not sufficiently firm with Foncha – and perhaps also with Field – about the “third question” movement. I believe a firm attitude on this now may save us a great deal of trouble later and I think that H.M.G’s position should be made abundantly clear to Foncha in an effort to scotch tendencies towards the third question.”

“Can one argue that the terms of the question “Do you wish to attain independence by joining the Republic?” allow for an interim period during which the Southern Cameroons will virtually have its own separate and independent existence while the terms of reunification with the Republic are being worked out? The words “by joining the Republic” taken literally appear to rule this out. But it may be that Foncha will seek to argue that if his solution, having been agreed to by Ahidjo, is not opposed by the U.K., the U.N. may be induced to wear it. There would be the better grounds for this if Endeley were prepared also to agree to this interpretation of the question. We do not like all this at all. But we like the alternatives even less. To go for complete independence or to seek to insert a third choice in the plebiscite would create major difficulties.”

“What would worry me is if a sequel to the Southern Cameroons try for independence was the Northern Cameroons went the same way. That would really I think upset our relationship with Nigeria as a whole and for a long time to come, and that is something which we must at all costs avoid. The Southern Cameroons and its inhabitants are undoubtedly expendable in relation to this.”

A Ravaging Political Storm over the Independence of the Former British Southern Cameroons

By Mola Njoh Litumbe

1. Bamenda, capital of the North West Province in Cameroun, has witnessed major political events in recent history. It was the birthplace of the ruling CPDM party in [la Republique du ] Cameroun, as well as that of the SDF, the leading opposition political party. It now seems destined to play host to another major event as the trial of SCNC activists and that of Professor Martin Chia Ateh, for secession, gathers momentum.

2. The Examining Magistrate, Justice Angelina Atabong, in a Commital Order dated 03/04/2007, charges Professor Ateh for advocating secession of the North West and South West Provinces from La Republique du Cameroun, and for attempting to hold a public meeting at the Presbyterian Youth Centre, Azire, without first notifying the administrative authorities. The recorded statements suggest that Professor Ateh denies the first charge, on grounds that legally speaking, Southern Cameroons is not part of the Republic of Cameroon in as much as the legal formalities to consummate the union were not complied with. In the result, he states that as there was no legal marriage between the two countries as required by international law, the parties are, as it were, living in “sin” rather than “in holy matrimony.” Accordingly, since the union is not founded on legality, parties are free to go their separate ways in the event of disagreement. Secession implies breaking away from a legally constituted unit.

3. The facts of the matter are that the country now known as La Republique du Cameroun graduated from the status of a French Administered UN Trust Territory that was granted independence on 1st January 1960 with a seat at the UN in September of the same year. The International convention of the African Union enjoins emerging African states to respect the colonial boundaries inherited at independence. That being the case, the boundaries of La Republique du Cameroun which attained independence on 1st January 1960 are clearly defined under international law, and cannot include the territory known as British Southern Cameroons which, at the material time of La Republique du Cameroon’s independence, was still a UN trust territory administered by Great Britain. For a charge of secession to succeed therefore, the prosecution has to establish that at some time subsequent to 1st January 1960, Southern Cameroons got legally incorporated as an integral part of La Republique du Cameroun.

The Legal Argument For Southern Cameroons Independence

"An annexed people is always for a king or an Emperor a matter of complex problems. For his own people are always divided on the annexation like the annexed people themselves: he always has sleepless nights over them until the annexed people free themselves by sword or by negotiation; for the ashes of annexation are never completely cold."

Nicolo Machiaveli

"The Southern Cameroons was given an international status in 1922 as a League of Nations Mandated Territory under British Administration. In 1931, the League of Nations requested Britain and France to landmark the international boundary between the British Cameroons and French Cameroun. So on 9 January 1931, the "Cameroons Boundary Commission" met in London. Under the supervision of the League of Nations. Administrators of the British Cameroons and those of French Cameroun landmarked the international boundary by building concrete cement pillar marks along the boundary: each landmark was the object of a specific topographic document which was co-signed by the administrators of both countries"

Standing with the Students (Documentary)

The Documentary premieres Saturday June 30 at 12:15PM at the SEVEN STAGES THEATRE in Atlanta Georgia-US.

TRT: 23 minutes

This is the plight of Southern Cameroonians who live in an apartheid state as an English-speaking people in a typical French African protectorate -- la Republique du Cameroun: authoritarian, genocidal and programmed to destroy Africa, where France and everything French represents a culture and language of tyranny, corruption, poverty, death and genocide. Vive La France!

FRANCE and CHARLES TAYLOR

In an interview accorded to Radio France Internationale's Christophe Boisbouvier, Amara Essy, former Ivorian foreign minister and head of the African Union Commision, reveals the role France played in the carnage that swept through West Africa, especially Liberia and Sierra Leone, for much on the nineties.

After the end of the Cold War, France instituted a policy to "expand their influence on the continent to anglophone and lusophone countries, while maintaining their special relationship with francophone Africa."

In Charles Taylor, the Cellule Africaine at the Elysee Palace under Jacques Rene Chirac found just the kind of African the French adore. France was to be the only western country to honor Charles Taylor with a state visit.

INTERVIEW
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The Ivorian daily, Le Matin d'Abidjan editorial on Mr. Amara Essy revelations follows:

SCAPO Press Release on the ACHPR 41st Session

"While calling on the people of Southern Cameroons to remain focused and confident, SCAPO, reminds everyone in the Southern Cameroons that thier right to self-determination was fully recognized in the United Nations Charter; that the international boundaries of the Southern Cameroons' territory are guaranteed and secured by international law; that the African Union recognizes no other boundaries to African states than the boundaries they had on their attainment of independence; that there is no treaty by which the territory of the Southern Cameroons has been ceded to la Republique du Cameroun and therefore that territory remains fully vested in the people of Southern Cameroons who shall triumph in the restoration of their statehood and sovereignty."