Southern Cameroons Youth League (SCYL) 2010 Address

January 04, 2010

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My fellow compatriots

In the past 5 years, we have been thinking of making this address. It has been a thought locked in the inter-phase of contemplation in which several factors had to be carefully considered. We have weighed the options and decided it was time to speak directly and frankly to our people about the difficulties ahead and the opportunities our resilience can bear for a long time coming.

This message is not impregnated with pleasantries or gloom. It is one from a generation most affected by fifty years of occupation. Fifty years of occupation that has created antipathy, morally bankrupted a huge section of our populace, breadth naivety but has also produce a generation of men and women who have refused to settle for anything less than total victory against the dark forces of occupation.

... As for dialogue or negotiations with Yaounde, the SCYL’s position remains unchanged. We will not talk with butchers who continue to detain, arrest, torture and murder our people. It is not an act of intransigence; but one borne of experience and careful analysis of the regime that has been in Yaoundé for 27 years. Yaoundé does not understand negotiations. It equates it to capitulation and legitimisation.

... We congratulate SCNC and SCAPO for this victory. It couldn’t have been  possible without the brilliance of Prof Carlson Anyangwe. Those who made their widows mite donations were also part of this victory. The SCYL has maintained from the moment we received the verdict that SCAPO and the SCNC alone will decide what to do with the victory. It can learn from the lessons of the Bamenda High Court victory by Ambazonia, the Abuja federal High court victory and the admission of the Southern Camerooninto UNPO. There are valuable lessons it can draw from these victories.But any decision SCAPO, SCNC and its allies take, they should understand  that it will only make sense on the ground and those who will decide how that ground is shaped are the ordinary patriot volunteers.

... As far as the SCYL is concerned, we are bent on victory. Yaoundé must release unconditionally all Southern Cameroonians captives especially; Justice Mbuh, Edwin Jumven, Ngek Simon and all the others in its jails. We will not sit with annexationist under an agenda, the African commission calls constitutional talks and that equates independence to autonomy. We have been treated for fifty years like scams and beggars; we have been disenfranchised and traumatised that sharing a common territorial area with these butchers is a source of unending conflict.

Fellow compatriots,

The SCYL has declared that Paul Biya should be charged for Crimes against humanity for ordering, condoning, abetteing and aiding the commission of systemic torture in our land and in advancing its policy of territorial aggrandisement.

 

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