Southern Cameroons Interim Government

UNPO Presses UN to Admit Southern Cameroons

The Post (Buea)
NEWS
16 June 2008
By Chris Mbunwe

The ninth General Assembly of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation, UNPO, which held May 16-17, resolved to press the UN to admit Southern Cameroons as a member of the world body of sovereign nations.

This is contained in the UNPO General Assembly Member Resolution dated Thursday, June 12.After examining and listening to all what Southern Cameroons has gone through for over 35 years under President Paul Biya's regime, namely; systematic and wanton repression, torture, arbitrary arrest, detention and imprisonment of SCNC activists, the UNPO resolved that it is high time Southern Cameroons statehood was restored.

In a four-point resolution, UNPO declares, "We, the UNPO General Assembly, unequivocally declare solidarity with the SCNC and the Southern Cameroonian people in their pacific struggle to restore their statehood and sovereign independence, build a democratic society and be masters of their own destiny.

Southern Cameroons National Council (SCNC) Vice Chair Elected Into UNPO Presidency

The Post (Buea)

NEWS
12 June 2008
By Chris Mbunwe

The Vice Chairman of the Southern Cameroons National Council, SCNC, Nfor Ngala Nfor, has been elected into the Presidency of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation, UNPO.

Nfor Nfor was elected during the ninth UNPO General Assembly that held recently in Brussels, Belgium.The General Assembly was organised at the European Parliament with full attendance of UNPO members and delegates from all over the world.

Professor Carlson Anyangwe Assumes Control of the Southern Cameroons Struggle

Citizens of the British Southern Cameroons:

This year marks 150 years of continuing colonisation of our Homeland: British from 1858 to 1887; German from 1888 to 1914; British again from 1915 to 1961; Cameroun Republic from October 1961 to date. Few peoples in the world have had such a chequered and cruel fate. And so we fight to be free. We fight to have full control over our lives and our land. We fight for our future. We fight for our God-given territory. We fight to manage our own affairs. We fight to live a life of dignity as human beings free from fear and want. We fight not for the past. We fight for the future. We fight for the future of our children. Our children deserve a place they can legitimately, proudly, truly and freely call home. It is quite unimportant whether we ourselves as individuals live. But it is essential that, like other people, we as a people live. It is essential that the British Southern Cameroons, by whatever name we eventually choose to baptise it, shall live; and that even as a small nation, it has every right to exist.

Fellow Southern Cameroonians, the use of the term "British" at this point in our struggle must be explained. We are not trying to become British, but we respect the rules. In 1984, the Cameroun Republic reverted to its original identity before its union with the Southern Cameroons. In so doing, Cameroun Republic seceded from the pretended union, but has illegally held on to us as a colony. We had no choice but to revert to our pre-union identity and to resume our decolonisation efforts. The issue of our name has been a cause of much argument in this struggle. One of the first acts of this government will be to obtain through a fair and open process a suitable and final name for ourselves from the genius of our people. That name would in all likelihood be neither "British" or "Cameroons".

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

A Ravaging Political Storm over the Independence of the Former British Southern Cameroons

By Mola Njoh Litumbe

1. Bamenda, capital of the North West Province in Cameroun, has witnessed major political events in recent history. It was the birthplace of the ruling CPDM party in [la Republique du ] Cameroun, as well as that of the SDF, the leading opposition political party. It now seems destined to play host to another major event as the trial of SCNC activists and that of Professor Martin Chia Ateh, for secession, gathers momentum.

2. The Examining Magistrate, Justice Angelina Atabong, in a Commital Order dated 03/04/2007, charges Professor Ateh for advocating secession of the North West and South West Provinces from La Republique du Cameroun, and for attempting to hold a public meeting at the Presbyterian Youth Centre, Azire, without first notifying the administrative authorities. The recorded statements suggest that Professor Ateh denies the first charge, on grounds that legally speaking, Southern Cameroons is not part of the Republic of Cameroon in as much as the legal formalities to consummate the union were not complied with. In the result, he states that as there was no legal marriage between the two countries as required by international law, the parties are, as it were, living in “sin” rather than “in holy matrimony.” Accordingly, since the union is not founded on legality, parties are free to go their separate ways in the event of disagreement. Secession implies breaking away from a legally constituted unit.

3. The facts of the matter are that the country now known as La Republique du Cameroun graduated from the status of a French Administered UN Trust Territory that was granted independence on 1st January 1960 with a seat at the UN in September of the same year. The International convention of the African Union enjoins emerging African states to respect the colonial boundaries inherited at independence. That being the case, the boundaries of La Republique du Cameroun which attained independence on 1st January 1960 are clearly defined under international law, and cannot include the territory known as British Southern Cameroons which, at the material time of La Republique du Cameroon’s independence, was still a UN trust territory administered by Great Britain. For a charge of secession to succeed therefore, the prosecution has to establish that at some time subsequent to 1st January 1960, Southern Cameroons got legally incorporated as an integral part of La Republique du Cameroun.

CONTINENTAL SHIFT: Colonial-Era Ties to Africa Face a Reckoning in France

Secretive and Powerful 'Cell' Suffers Blows As Controversies Grow

By DAVID GAUTHIER-VILLARS
May 16, 2007; Page A1

On the evening of March 4, 10 French paratroopers reached Birao, Central African Republic, and dropped near an airstrip captured by rebel militia. The paratroopers ambushed the rebels, killing several and reclaiming the airport for the government.

In France, neither the public nor parliament was informed of the attack for three weeks. Coordinating the mission was the "Cellule Africaine," a three-person office nestled behind the Elysée, France's presidential palace. This wasn't the first time the office has been involved in the Central African Republic's internal affairs: In 1979, France toppled the former colony's self-proclaimed emperor and reinstalled his predecessor.

GUARDING FRANCE'S AFRICAN FRONTIER
How French presidents from de Gaulle to Chirac have handled the "African Cell" and France's interests in Africa.

For the past half-century, the secretive and powerful "African Cell" has overseen France's strategic interests in Africa, holding sway over a wide swath of former French colonies. Acting as a general command, the Cell uses France's military as a hammer to install leaders it deems friendly to French interests. In return, these countries give French industries first crack at their oil and other natural resources. Sidestepping traditional diplomatic channels, the Cell reports only to one person: the president.

But with France's new President Nicolas Sarkozy preparing to assume office later today, the African Cell's days may be numbered. There are accusations the French military bears some responsibility for the genocide of 800,000 Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994, charges the government strenuously denies. There's fierce debate over the French military's continuing presence in the Ivory Coast, where soldiers were dispatched in 2002 when rebels threatened to overthrow President Laurent Gbagbo.

The Cell's close ties to oil giant Elf Aquitaine, where top executives were jailed on corruption charges, were a source of embarrassment. And a former Cell chief is now facing charges related to arms trafficking to Angola. Critics say the Cell's support of non-democratic African regimes, an artifact of France's colonial past, is preventing these nations from making progress to modernity. And Africa, once evidence of imperial grandeur, is now viewed by many French as the source of a continuing flood of poor immigrants.

Farewell, Jacques Chirac

A Leader With a Deep Scorn for Fostering Democracy
By Anne Applebaum
Tuesday, May 8, 2007; A25

(Culled from The Washington Post)

"All political careers end in failure," a British statesman once wisely said. Judging by the wreckage of the famous political career that ended this week, he was even wiser than he knew. With the election of a new president of France on Sunday, the lengthy professional life of Jacques Chirac -- French president for 12 years, mayor of Paris for 18 years, twice French prime minister for a total of four years -- comes to a grinding halt, apparently to the great relief of his compatriots.

Jacques Chirac Leaves Behind One of His Favorite Puppet-Tyrants, Camerounese Governor Paul Biya

In the coming weeks, there will be plenty of time to discuss the virtues and vices of his successor, President-elect Nicolas Sarkozy. But before Chirac fades from the scene altogether -- or before he becomes embroiled in corruption investigations -- I'd like to take this opportunity to recall some of the highlights of his diplomatic career. Many Americans know him only as the man who made the right decision about Iraq, albeit for the wrong reasons. But try, if you can, to leave Iraq aside: Chirac's more important diplomatic legacy lies elsewhere.

Ponder closely, for example, what Chirac has had to say on Africa, where his country has enormous influence, in many places far outweighing ours: During a visit to the Ivory Coast, Chirac once called "multi-partyism" a "kind of luxury," which his host, president-for-life F?lix Houphouet-Boigny, clearly could not afford. During a visit to Tunisia, he proclaimed that since "the most important human rights are the rights to be fed, to have health, to be educated and to be housed," Tunisia's human rights record is "very advanced" -- never mind the police who beat up dissidents. "Africa is not ready for democracy," he told a group of African leaders in the early 1990s. On Britain: "The only thing they have ever done for European agriculture is mad cow disease . . . You can't trust people who cook as badly as that."

President Nicolas Sarkozy: Has a Thug Inherited Françafrique?

IG Research Bureau
May 07, 2007

In mid-June of 1998, just four years after the French genocide in Rwanda, France was again in Africa, this time in Congo-Brazzaville. And like they did four years earlier, the French NGOs: Cimade, Agir ici and Frères des hommes carried out protests in France that were utterly ignored by France’s elite establishment media. Regarding official France, Jean-Arnold de Clermont, the president of Fédération protestante de France would lament in the Fall of 1999 that he was “shocked by the complacent attitude of the French embassy in Congo, and if it is true that the French army was training Mr. Nguesso’s militia, I’ll be very worried about the future. The same thing happened in Rwanda and we know how that turned out.” In a war sponsored by France and ELF, about 250,000 defenseless Africans in the Pool of the Congo will die. Mr. Jean-Arnold de Clermont fears came true. In a morbid conspiracy of silence, there was a complete media black out in France. A journalist for TF1 would say in December of 1998 that “we wanted to mobilize a team in Brazzaville, but we were blocked at both ends.” In Paris and Brazzaville (François-Xavier Verschave). French media barons freely acquiesced to the diktats of the Elysée Palace forbidding any coverage of the carnage in Congo-Brazzaville, a carnage that had the fingerprints of Jacques Chirac and the françafrique village. These are the same media barons French presidential candidate François Bayrou has warned Sarkozy is very close to, in addition to the big businesses like the Bolloré and Bouygues Groups whose thuggish and corrupt practices in Africa has enabled so much deviance on the continent, enabled by French surrogates masquerading as African heads of state.

In 1999, Nicolas Sarkozy proudly stood in court as a character witness for one Charles Pasqua in the latter’s defamation suit against French economist and author, François-Xavier Verschave, regarding the publication of his book on French crimes in Africa, La Françafrique: le plus long Scandale de la République. During the course of the trial, Mr. Pasqua’s networks and dealings with what is now the genocidal regime in Khartoum were exposed. Today, Mr. Pasqua is under indictment for illegal arms dealing in Angola. But he now has as a character witness, the president of France.

France has elevated herself to a nation and people with a global view of life that she believes she must propagate, génocide oblige, to the rest of the world, especially in Africa. They call it their mission civilisatrice. In Africa, institutionalized under Charles de Gaulle’s 5th republic, it is a nefarious and criminal network composed of French politicians, businessmen and journalists along with their African surrogates called françafrique. It is a political disposition that in essence considers the African as sub-human and it is a doctrinaire approach regarding France’s dealings with Africa that Mr. Sarkozy is positioning himself to perpetuate. The command and control of the mafia is the Cellule Africaine at the Elysée Palace under the monopolized direct control of the president of France, that contrary to the promise of the other candidates in the recent French elections, Sarkozy has promised to maintain.

And while Mr. Sarkozy rhapsodizes about a rupture with the past, he has refused any reform of Charles de Gualle's 5th republic that for defenseless Africans has represented repeated coups, massacres, genocides and the institutionalization of a culture of tyrannical corruption, where French advisers still call the shots in countries like Gabon, Congo-Brazzaville, Central African Republic and la République du Cameroun. Where Mr. Bayrou speaks of “the 5th republic that no longer works, wherever there is monopoly of power, pluralism should be instituted. Enough of concentrated power,” Mr. Sarkozy is preparing to use the same instruments to achieve the same aims for his business friends and African surrogates. His homage to Omar Bongo Odimba six weeks ago in Paris, a dinosaur of the françafrique salon speaks for itself.

(See video below)

SCNC Activists, CPDM Envoy Tussle In Belgium

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."

Southern Cameroons: France's Next Stage for Genocide in Africa

The French colony of la République du Cameroun was one of those countries in the world that provided a safe haven for a good number of the Rwandese genocidaires who did France’s work in the massacre of about 1 million Africans in 3 months in the French genocide in Rwanda.

The choice of la République du Cameroun as a safe haven for the French Rwandan genocidaires was not fortuitous. For in la République du Cameroun, the “French Hutus” who executed genocide in the 1950s & 60s on behalf and at the direction of France have been in power since the creation of la République du Cameroun. The line of governorship of that French enclave: Pierre Messmer, Jean Ramadier, Ahmadu Ahidjo and today Paul Biya remain the beneficiaries of one of France’s first African genocides. This piece published by The Postwatch magazine gives a glimpse of that French slaughter:

General De Gaulle set the stage for the dehumanization and brutalisation of Africans

A Very Gaullist Chief in the Southern Cameroons

The very Gaullist Chief Endeley

Charles De Gaulle
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“The Germans, our first colonial master, and the English virtually abandoned us but the French have remained and have become our real friends.” Chief Endeley told his guests.

According to The Post (March 13, 2007), Chief Endeley made the statement, Saturday March 3, while welcoming French Ambassador to la République du Cameroun Georges Serre and wife, to the Buea Town residence of former UN Representative to Congo, Dr. Namata Ngongi.

In the 1944 Brazzaville Conference where France unveiled her blueprint for the continuous plunder and brutality of their colonized possessions in negation of the global decolonization spirit in a post-Hitler world, part of the declaration read:

“The goal of the task of civilization by France in her colonies rule out any possibility of evolution outside the French block of the empire. The eventual creation even in the distant future of ‘self-government’ for the colonies is to be set aside … In greater colonial France, they are neither people to enfranchise nor racial discrimination to abolish. They are populations which we intend to conduct stage by stage to a political personality and for the more developed to political rights. But this will mean that the only independence they will want will be the independence of France.”

Africa and the Southern Cameroons remains burdened with a certain breed, hopefully on the verge of passing on naturally, which continues to remind us on why the continent remains the last enchanting laboratory for all sorts of human misery. This breed have for centuries been conducted stage by stage to political personalities that enable them to betray the essence of Africa’s collective humanity. Some of our Chiefs and Fons in the Southern Cameroons have fit perfectly into this Gaullist view of Africa.

Bate Besong

"To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die"

MORE ON BATE BESSONG'S PASSING

Hello Mr. Georges Serre, French Ambassador to la République du Cameroun

GEORGES SERRE, French Ambassador to la République du Cameroun

Thank you for the interview accorded to The Post newspaper of March 05/2007.
(Appended at the end of this piece)

A few years ago, a story circulated in the Southern Cameroons about an exchange between Cardinal Christian Tumi and another French man of God. When told that he was from the Cameroons, the French man of God asked Cardinal Tumi what was taking so long to Frenchify those anglophones in the Cameroons. And to his “embarrassment” Cardinal Tumi calmly replied that he is indeed one of those anglophones.

Whether this anecdote is true or false, it does reveal the depths and depravity of the conspiracy against the people of the Southern Cameroons. It also reveals the intentions behind the brutality that the state and people of the Southern Cameroons have been subjected to. But it also is displays the success of a genteel but robust resistance, which despite close to half a century of relentless and brutal colonial rule of France masquerading as la République du Cameroun sanctioned by the “international community,” she has miserably failed to destroy the political identity of the state and people of the Southern Cameroons. Or it may just be the incompetence and limitation of the patented French illusions of grandeur laced with the Fashoda Syndrome.

But here we are in March of 2007, in desperation struts in this Messenger of Death called Georges Serre, in the name of the French Ambassador to their bush Bastille enclave called la République du Cameroun. Along with his primitive coterie of Gaullist monkeys from Yaoundé he declares (or decrees?) in an interview with The Post newspaper that the University of Buea is a “national university with a focus towards bilingualism.” Even basic intellectual competence eludes this so-called French diplomat sent from the métropole to one of the primitive recesses of the periphery. It will really be helpful to both the peoples of France and la République du Cameroun that we of the Southern Cameroons have competent interlocutors who are capable of understanding the basic processes and realities of life.

Why George Serre Came to the Southern Cameroons and the University of Buea

SCNC Defence Counsel Blames Gendarmes For Obstructing Justice

By Chris Mbunwe
(Culled from The Post newspaper, March 2, 2007)

"It is our humble submission that the State of Southern Cameroons, the independence of which the accused persons are arguing has never in law nor historically been an integral and inseparable part of he Republic of Cameroon." Bobga went further to explain to the court that the Republic of Cameroon gained independence on January 1, 1960, while the State of Southern Cameroons gained her independence on October 1, 1961.

According to Bobga, the experiment to create a two-state Federation of the States of "The Republic of Cameroon" and that of "Southern Cameroons" has been a legal constitutional and historical failure giving rise to the peaceful struggle of Southern Cameroonians seeking a restoration of their independent state "now under the Republic of Cameroon illegal occupation, not withstanding the dubious Cameroon-Nigeria land and maritime boundary judgment of the International Court of Justice and the comic Green Tree agreement idea of the three neo-colonial agents and conspirators Mr. Paul Biya of La République du Cameroun, Obasanjo of Nigeria and former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan," Bobga declared.
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Southern Cameroons: Prisoners in Hunger Strike, France-Cannes: Chirac feasts with his Paul Biya

Mr. Jacques Chirac who once proclaimed Africans as "not being mature" for democracy, and like the God and lover of Africans that he, Noir Chirac purports to be, warned President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa that he, Noir Chirac, understands the soul and mentality of Africans better than the South African president, is here in his element with a Gaullist African governor.

The grinning pétainiste negroid Paul Biya, the 74 year-old governor of la République du Cameroun, has spent his life giving "Calamity Jack" reason to believe that he does indeed understand the soul and mentality of Africans. For 25 years, France's grinning pétainiste negro, Paul Biya, has reduced his countrymen to abject poverty and misery, while making his country, la République du Cameroun, the bordello for France, especially for the likes of Calamity Jack and his pals.

Their morbid Françafrique feast this past week in France, could not have been at a better setting. The centre where illusions and make-belief are displayed: Cannes represented the perfect stage for Noir Chirac, Calamity Jack, a man dubbed by the French press as a "super thief" and "super liar," to act as the pompous poseur with smoke and mirrors, misrepresenting himself as Africa's best lover. The type of lover who stalks and eventually kills his victim ... out of great love. Like the people of Rwanda, Congo-Brazzaville, Côte d'Ivoire know all too well.

Governor Biya, France's puppet will return to his French plantation of la République du Cameroun with the Southern Cameroons that he plunders for France still very much in its incipient revolt. The leaders of the SCNC as reported by the UNPO will be on a hunger strike.

Gbagbo Décline L’invitation de Chirac

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Thabo Mbeki ne participera pas au sommet Afrique-France à Cannes

(AFP)-Dimanche 11 février 2007 - 16h57
Le président sud-africain Thabo Mbeki ne participera pas au sommet Afrique-France qui réunit du 14 au 16 février, à Cannes, à vendredi une trentaine de dirigeants africains, a-t-on appris dimanche auprès du gouvernement sud-africain.

"La ministre des Affaires étrangères, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, dirigera la délégation (sud-africaine) au sommet", a déclaré à l'AFP Ronnie Mamoepa, porte-parole du ministère des Affaires étrangères...

Protests in The Hague: Reaction to Mass Arrest

The Hague, 25 January 2007

SCNC Detainees Transferred to Bamenda Central Prison

From The Post
By Chris Mbunwe

Thirteen out of 40 Southern Cameroon's National Council, SCNC, militants who were arrested, brutalized and detained on Saturday, January 20, when armed troops swooped on them at a press conference in Cow Street, Bamenda, have been transferred to the Bamenda Central Prison to await trial. The authorities of the Gendarmarie Legion at Up-Station, Bamenda, handed over the first 13 detainees to the Bamenda Central Prison, Monday, January 22, at about 2 pm.

Speaking to The Post at the Bamenda Prison shortly after their arrival, the SCNC National Vice Chairman, Nfor Ngala Nfor, who sustained serious injuries on both arms and head, said no amount of torture and intimidation shall deter them from achieving the independence of Southern Cameroons.

"As you have seen, we have been patiently waiting for hours on end at this Prison Secretariat to be distributed to the various prison cells for as long as the government of La République would want. My worry is that some of us are suffering from the pains inflicted by police and gendarmes who used heavy boots on us," said Nfor Nfor. As Nfor Nfor narrated their ordeal, the Bui Coordinator of the SCNC, Stephen Kongnso could be heard groaning from excruciating pains, complaining of stomachache and fever.

Those awaiting trial at the Bamenda Prison include:

• Nfor Ngala Nfor, 54
• Prince Humphrey Mbinglo Hitler, 65
• Henry Lamnyam, 35: Secretary Donga Mantung
• David Achu Njie, 56: Mezam Organising Secretary
• Stephen Mongo, 43: Bamenda LGA,
• Lucas Ngwa Che, 59: Bamenda LGA
• Ann Rita, 60
• Augustine Shintum, 33
• Clement Atanga, 60
• Dr. Simon Tantoh, 65
• Anna Mbiwan, 75
• Lawrence Nyuydze, 35

Southern Cameroons: Mass Arrests

Source: UNPO

French-trained LRC Troops Deployed Against the Civilian Population in Bamenda, Southern Cameroons

UNPO has received disturbing reports that heavily armed police and gendarmes, a military unit, from La Republique du Cameroun raided a press conference hosted by the Southern Cameroons National Council (SCNC) in Bamenda, Southern Cameroons on Saturday 20 January 2007. The press conference was aimed at informing the public of SCNC Vice Chairman and UNPO Member Representative Nfor Ngala Nfor’s recent missions in Europe, the United States and Asia.

An estimated 300 civilians were attending the press conference, which was ransacked by the armed gendarmes. The gendarmes Division Officer, Mezam, allegedly produced an arrest warrant for the SCNC activists. After keeping the conference attendees at the premises for three hours, they were loaded into army trucks and taken away into detention. Many of those detained have been badly wounded. It is reported that Nfor Ngala Nfor was among those severely mishandled, sustaining injuries to his head, chest and arms.

Among those arrested at the press conference are:

* SCNC National Chairman Chief Ayamba Ette Otun

* SCNC National Vice Chairman Nfor Ngala Nfor

* Other SCNC Executive Members

* Journalists

* Over 200 members of the general public

This action constitutes flagrant disrespect for the basic human right of freedom of assembly and freedom of expression, and UNPO strongly condemns what can only be seen as a measure of censorship and repression conducted by La Republique du Cameroun.

Kumba SCNC Mourns Slain UB Students

Culled from The Post newspaper

Kumba SCNC Mourns Slain UB Students
By Olive Ejang Tebug

Activists of the Southern Cameroons National Council, SCNC, in Kumba have completed three days of prayers, mourning and fasting for the slain University of Buea, UB, students, who were killed by the Forces of Law and Order during a strike last year.

SCNC activists demonstrate in Kumba
(Photo courtesy of The Post Newspaper)

The mourning, which began on Friday, January 12 ended with a thanksgiving service by the activists on Sunday, January 14 at the Sacred Heart Parish, Fiango.The Mass was preceded by a peaceful demonstration by close to 150 activists brandishing the white and blue Southern Cameroons flag.

They also wielded placards bearing messages like: "Do you want genocide in Southern Cameroons before you intervene?" "Southern Cameroonians are running out of patience", "International Community help Southern Cameroons from annexation."

Rape as an Instrument of War

Paul Biya

Koumpa Issa-Colonial Adminstrator

Louis Eyeya Zanga-Colonial Administrator

Paul Biya and his appointed colonial administrators in the Southern Cameroons, Issa Koumpa and Louis Eyeya Zanga will account for using rape as an instrument of war in the Southern Cameroons.

In 1961, France made the political decision to disobey international law and annex the Southern Cameroons to their colonial territory of la République du Cameroun, where they had already negated any independence the people of that country aspired to with the imposition of slave Cooperation Agreements on a hand-picked surrogate called Ahmadu Ahidjo. This was the beginning of a trend of arrogant disobedience in Africa by France, to the norms of international law and the new world order of de-colonization catalyzed by the sacrifice that the peoples of the world, including Africans from the Southern Cameroons, made in the defeat of Nazism that in essence was the illegal acquisition of territory by force of arms.

Former French Prime Minister Pierre Messmer in his Memoirs, Les Blanc S’en Vont, made it quite clear that French legal experts working with the French surrogate Ahmadu Ahidjo in the early 60s were engaged in the annexation of the Southern Cameroons. DeGaulle, at the same peroid infamously equated the people of the Southern Cameroons as “a little gift to France from the Queen of England,” dispensing the humanity of the people of the Southern Cameroons in a trash can with the turn of a smart phrase that still echoes with each ongoing French crime in Africa. To hell with the UN Charter and instruments of law. The seeds for French arrogance and thuggery had been sowed on the continent, and as Jacques Chirac will say some 30 odd years later: "democracy is a luxury for Africans."

LOOKING TO 2007

Fellow Southern Cameroonians,

2006 draws to a close with the people of the Southern Cameroons still faced with the hardship and impoverishment that has been their lot since the invasion and occupation of our homeland by France masquerading as la République du Cameroun in 1961.

The Southern Cameroons with international boundaries long ago established as a former League of Nations mandate, a former UN Trust Territory, and a former self-governing territory with an elected Prime Minister, which had the honor of having the first democratic change of government in Africa in 1958, today stands as a wasteland where the French and their African surrogates from Yaoundé rape, beat, and kill our citizens with officially sanctioned immunity. The routine brutality of the occupation forces was once again taken up a notch leading up to the October 1, 2006 commemorations and during the University of Buea strike in November of 2006.

2006 came and went without any word regarding the investigations Paul Biya and his Vichy-like Yaoundé junta said will be conducted regarding the killing of defenseless students at the University of Buea in 2005. In November 2006, la République du Cameroun killed again in Buea, establishing itself as an effective state-sponsor of terrorism in a land beyond the international boundaries she had at her independence on January 1, 1960.

2006 for the Southern Cameroons Interim Government in exile (IG) has been a year of tremendous growth. Strategic alliances within and beyond the Southern Cameroons were formalized, rewarding our strident belief that France remains the enemy we must dislodge from our land.

2006 enabled the world to see leaders like Laurent Gbagbo of Côte d’Ivoire, Paul Kagame of Rwanda and Yoweri Museveni of Uganda validate, by their public statements, the strategic and political philosophy the IG adopted at its creation in November of 2003 in positioning the liberation and independence of the Southern Cameroons as part of the final liberation of Africa from the depravity and arrogance driving a racist French policy of continuous colonial exploitation and manipulation on the continent.

2007 will see the IG broaden and strengthen its reach within the territory of the Southern Cameroons in ways that will tangibly challenge the ideological and physical presence of the occupation forces from la République du Cameroun that represent French interests in our land.

2007 will also see the consolidation of our strategic alliances in other parts of Africa, Europe and the US that will enable the people of the Southern Cameroons and its Liberation Movement to confront France and their puppet state, la République du Cameroun du Premiere Janvier 1960 in an ever more pronounced manner.

We send all Southern Cameroonians best wishes for the holidays and the New Year.

For the IG,
Department of Media & Communication

A SOLEMN PROMISE TO HONOR THE LAW OF RETRIBUTION

In light of the rapes, torture and murder visited upon the students at the University of Buea and the population in the university community, we have added Louis Eyeya Zanga to the list of those who will pay for the crimes against humanity in the Southern Cameroons. We are therefore reposting this promise we made on October 1, 2005 to underscore our resolve to enact the Law of Retribution at a the appropriate moment of our choosing.