The Southern Cameroons Youth League (SCYL) and the Southern Cameroons National Council (SCNC) in partnership with the Southern Cameroons Interim Government-In-Exile, invites all Southern Cameroonians and friends of the Southern Cameroons to a demonstration on the 11th of February at No. 10 Downing Street in London.
This demonstration is to highlight the role of Britain in the continuous brutal colonization of the Southern Cameroons by France, masquerading as la République du Cameroun.
Contact:
SCYL International Secretariat:
Tel: 00492344140660 / 00491756759322
The United Kingdom Government in 2006, in continuous pursuit of a racist policy of diplomatic double standards and predatory neo-colonial de-humanization in her former Trust Territory of the British Southern Cameroons, remains a modern day slave trader. In cahoots with the European partner from France and her implanted junta in Yaoundé, they insist on prohibiting the implementation of the rule of law in the former United Nations Trust Territory of the Southern Cameroons.
The United Kingdom Government in 2006 insists on being the orchestrator in denying, and in the continuous violation of Article 76 of her Trusteeship Agreements to the people of the Southern Cameroons, their right to live in peace and security as a self-determined people.
According to the United Nations Charter, the basic objectives of the trusteeship system, in accordance with the Purposes of the United Nations laid down in Article 1 of the present Charter, shall be:
a. to further international peace and security;
b. to promote the political, economic, social, and educational advancement of the inhabitants of the trust territories, and their progressive development towards self-government or independence as may be appropriate to the particular circumstances of each territory and its peoples and the freely expressed wishes of the peoples concerned, and as may be provided by the terms of each trusteeship agreement;
c. to encourage respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion, and to encourage recognition of the interdependence of the peoples of the world; and
d. to ensure equal treatment in social, economic, and commercial matters for all Members of the United Nations and their nationals and also equal treatment for the latter in the administration of justice without prejudice to the attainment of the foregoing objectives and subject to the provisions of Article 80.
In the Declassified Secret Files on the Southern Cameroons, Public Records Office, London it is gleaned that: “A confidential dispatch dated 7 June 1960, from Sir Andrew Cohen, the UK Representative at the United Nations, to Mr. Eastwood at the Colonial Office in London, stated: ‘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 (Her Majesty’s Government) position should be made abundantly clear to Foncha in an effort to scotch tendencies toward the third question [Independence per Article 76(b) of the UN Charter] … I think it may be necessary to tell Field [Commissioner of the Southern Cameroons] firmly that the policy of H.M.G. is to discourage any tendencies towards a third question very strongly’.”
Representatives of the Southern Cameroons had already met at Mamfe and overwhelmingly voted for independence (the third question).
The United Kingdom Government in 2006, as a matter of policy, refuses to give the same consideration to the people of the Southern Cameroons they gave to the people of the former Soviet republics of Estonia, Ukraine, Lithuania and the other states that acceded to self-determination and independence in the 1990s after the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe.
The policy of the United Kingdom Government in 2006, despite all the flagellations of Tony Blair and his vapid Commission for Africa, is a racist policy underpinned by arrogance, diplomatic double-standards, and in the case of the Southern Cameroons, a predatory neo-colonial rule for the benefit of the French; justification enough for Charles de Gaulle to infamously call the Southern Cameroons as “a little gift to France from the queen of England.”
The people of the Southern Cameroons will stand up, fight back and assert the right to live in freedom and dignity in an independent state.
