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