Culled From The Post
By George Eluty in Belgium
Southern Cameroons Activists in Belgium (Source: The Post)
Sunday, April 15, protesting members of the Southern Cameroons National Council, SCNC, confronted former Foreign Affairs Minister, Jacques Roger Booh Booh, who was CPDM envoy to Belgium for the party's reorganisation, in Antwerp, Belgium.
Asked why they decided to use CPDM occasion to bring their grievance to the world, SCNC Belgium Chairman, Morfaw, said "Jacques-Roger Booh-Booh is not just a former foreign minister of La République du Cameroun, he was also the head of UNAMIR, the small force dispatched by the United Nations to Rwanda in 1993.
Jacques Roger Booh Booh
"We all have read of the instrumental role he played in forestalling any UN military preventive action against the Rwandan Genocide and the killing of the 10 Belgian service men. What is happening to the Southern Cameroons today is more or less genocide and we had to tell him in the face."
Sunday, April 15, protesting members of the Southern Cameroons National Council, SCNC, confronted former Foreign Affairs Minister, Jacques Roger Booh Booh, who was CPDM envoy to Belgium for the party's reorganisation, in Antwerp, Belgium.
The SCNC activists seized the Minister's coat and trampled on it. Roger Booh Booh, who is currently heading a CPDM re-organisation delegation of the party's organs in the BENELUX, found himself helpless before a protesting group of SCNC activists.
The group was agitating against the secret inclusion of the names of some of their members into the CPDM membership list.The move, according to the agitators, was taken by local militants of the CPDM to swell up their membership in order to impress the visiting re-organisation delegation.
They also saw it as another attempt by La République du Cameroun to enhance its annexation agenda of the Southern Cameroons even in a foreign land.The tussle that lasted for a little over 45 minutes almost degenerated into a bitter fight when Booh Booh started fisting with some of the activists.
According to an activist, Miss Bobimwo Quinta, this was another great achievement for their just cause. It symbolised victory at home and away.The Belgian police was of little help to the CPDM delegation given that non-violent demonstration is authorised in Belgium.
It is also alleged that some militants of the CPDM in Belgium attended the SCNC planning meeting that took place on Saturday, to try to appease them in order to have a hitch-free elections.
This, too, met stiff resistance and opposition from the Southern Cameroonians. SCNC Secretary in Belgium, Lawrence Ewane, is said to have told the CPDM delegation "we cannot be annexed twice. You have annexed us back home and cannot come here and do same."
The protestors carried banners and placards bearing liberation and democratic messages. They placed the placards around the streets within the vicinity of Stad Antwerp, which hosted the reorganisation exercise.
It should be noted that a similar protest march took place in Brussels, which is considered to be the CPDM bastion in Belguim. Having exposed their grievances to the world and President Biya's envoy, the activists gave way for the CPDM delegation to carry on its re-organisation activities.
Asked why they decided to use CPDM occasion to bring their grievance to the world, SCNC Belgium Chairman, Morfaw, said "Jacques-Roger Booh-Booh is not just a former foreign minister of La République du Cameroun, he was also the head of UNAMIR, the small force dispatched by the United Nations to Rwanda in 1993.
"We all have read of the instrumental role he played in forestalling any UN military preventive action against the Rwandan Genocide and the killing of the 10 Belgian service men. What is happening to the Southern Cameroons today is more or less genocide and we had to tell him in the face."
The activists promised to do same to the SDF and any other political party from La République du Cameroun that will come to Europe with the aim of projecting a positive unitary image of the country when in reality things have fallen apart.
The activists have promised to stage another powerful demonstration on Friday, May 18, at the British Embassy in Brussels against May 20, which falls on a Sunday.
