Southern Cameroons Interim Government

"The French airlifted people from Bugesera in helicopters and brought them to be killed in Nyungwe forest"

Posted to the web October 26, 2006

By Felly Kimenyi & Edwin Musoni
Kigali

The French soldiers established several communes in the former Gikongoro province, now Southern Province, on their arrival to what they called Operation Turquoise, MP Desire Nyandwi, the sixth witness in the role of France Genocide probe said yesterday. "Upon their arrival in Gikongoro, the French wielded a lot of power in that they dethroned some of the Bourgmasters whom they deemed incompetent and recruited others. An example is the one of the former Nyamagabe commune," he said in his two-hour testimony.

Nyandwi, a former local government Minister, also said that he had that the French airlifted people from Bugesera in helicopters and brought them to be killed in Nyungwe forest.
He disagreed with the view that the French were deployed there to restore peace saying; "The environment could explain this, people were fleeing and killings were persistent, what peace did they restore?"

Witness Pins Down France On Genocide

Witness Pins Down France On Genocide

The New Times (Kigali)
NEWS
October 25, 2006
Posted to the web October 25, 2006

By Edwin Musoni
Kigali

The first witness testifying against the alleged involvement of the French government in the genocide that left close to one million people dead has said that he witnessed France's illegal arrest and detention of the senior RPA/F officials including President Paul Kagame. The former Rwandan Ambassador to France, Ambassador Jacque Bihozagara took the number one witness stand yesterday to give a chronology of events of the French leading to, or during the genocide. "In 1992, we went to France, with Kagame (the President), Aloysia Inyumba, Patrick Mazimphaka and Colonel Emmanuel Ndahiro. Our purpose of visit was to advise the Paris government to pull out from the war that was going on in Rwanda" testified Bihozagara

He added, "In our first evening in Paris, Colonel Ndahiro disappeared. We spent the whole night looking for him and in the morning, the French police stormed our hotel and they roughly and rudely checked our rooms"

Bihozagara said that at the hotel, the police brought with them Colonel Ndahiro as a captive.

France accused on Rwanda killings

French Troops Escorting their Hutu Power Militia

A former senior Rwandan diplomat has told a tribunal that France played an active role in Rwanda's 1994 genocide. Former Rwandan ambassador to Paris Jacques Bihozagara said French involvement stemmed from concerns about its diminishing influence in Africa. France has denied playing any role in the 100-day frenzy of killing in which 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus died.

After the hearings, the Rwandan panel will rule on whether to file a suit at the International Court of Justice. The panel is headed by former Justice Minister Jean de Dieu Mucyo and its proceedings, which began in the Rwandan capital, Kigali, on Tuesday, are being broadcast live on local radio. It is hearing from 25 survivors of the genocide, who claim to have witnessed French involvement. "This is an important inquiry that should be witnessed by everyone interested in this important episode of our history," Mr Mucyo was quoted as saying by the AFP news agency.

'No regret'

Southern Cameroons Rejects France & La Republique Francaise du Cameroun

"We Reject the French Colony of La Republique Francaise du Cameroun"

France: Une Histoire des Génocides en Afrique

Dans "Histoire secrète de la Ve République", le patron du Sdece révèle comment a été décidé l'assassinat en 1960 de Félix-Roland Moumié, le leader de l'UPC. Sous la direction Roger Faligot et Jean Guisnel, l'ouvrage de 750 pages cite aussi le témoignage sur cette "guerre spéciale" au Cameroun de Max Bardot, un pilote d'hélicoptère présent dans le pays de 1962 à 1964. Le voici, terrible : "En deux ans l'armée régulière a pris le pays bamiléké du Sud jusqu'au Nord et l'a complètement ravagé. Ils ont massacré de 300 000 à 400 000 personnes. Un vrai génocide.

Articulating Rejection

Despite Troops Deployment, SCNC Activists Hoist Flags in Buea, B'da, Bui ...

The Post (Buea)
NEWS
October 3, 2006
Posted to the web October 3, 2006

By Chris Mbunwe, Peterkins Manyong & Pegue Manga

In Buea, police pulled down a flag that was hoisted at the government practising primary school Molyko flagpole. The headmaster of the school, Chief Elongo Kombe, is said to have called the police who lowered the flag, but no arrests were made as the activists reportedly went unnoticed. SCNC activists also succeeded in hoisting flags at Atuakom and Mulang Quarters in Bamenda. The flag in Mulang was mounted near the office of the fire brigade. The largest flag, The Post learnt, was hoisted at St. John's Church where John Ngu Foncha was buried. According to SCNC supporters, the flag was hosted in honour of the late statesman.

Out of Bamenda, The Post gathered, two flags were hoisted in Tubah: Bambui and Bambili, where suspects were reportedly arrested, and one in Bamendankwe. In Bamendankwe, it is said the Mezam County Chairman, Emmanuel Muma, read the SCNC National Chairman's Independence Day address after the singing of the Southern Cameroons National anthem.

Six flags were reportedly also hoisted in Bafut. In Bui, The Post was told, a flag was hoisted near the SDO's residence early in the morning. It was brought down by security forces at 2.35 pm. There, it was said, a hunt for SCNC activists was underway. In Nkambe, a demonstration followed the hoisting of flags. Before October 1, it is alleged that four people were arrested reportedly on instructions of the DO, Simon Achu.