Southern Cameroons Interim Government

Understanding the Southern Cameroons Question - Fact Sheet

1. The Southern Cameroons was part of the United Nations Trust Territory of the  Cameroons under United Kingdom’s Administration. The Trusteeship Agreement between the United Nations and the United Kindgom was signed on 13 December 1946.

2. The name, Southern Cameroons, comes from the fact that the British Administering Authority had divided the Trust Territory into a Southern and Northern part, even while the territory was still a League of Nations mandated territory. British Southern Cameroons was created by the British Order in Council of June 26, 1923. By this act of the colonial authority, the British Southern Cameroons became a distinct territory from British Northern Cameroons within the international system, and a unit of self-determination.

3. The Southern Cameroons therefore does not refer to the Southern part of the Republic of Cameroon, but the Southern part of the British Cameroons.

4. French Cameroon was a United Nations Trust Territory under France.

5. French Cameroons and British Cameroons were separate UN Trust Territories with separate agreements, and each governed separately by Article 76(b) of the United Nations Charter. Apart from the fact that they were former parts of an ephemeral German Kamerun that lasted just 30 years and which was formally dismembered by the Versailles Treaty of 1919, there was no other link between them, either in language, administration, culture, politically or otherwise. Each was being prepared for its own self-determination as per Article 76(b) of the UN Charter.

6. British Cameroons was ruled from Nigeria until 1954, when members of the Southern Cameroons in the Nigerian Eastern House of Assembly walked out and returned to Buea, capital of Southern Cameroons, where they formed a thriving parliamentary democracy which lasted until 1961. From 1954 then, the Southern Cameroons was self-governing, with its government, Prime Minister, parliament, judiciary and House of Chiefs. It conducted its first free and fair election in which power changed hands peacefully in 1959.

 7. On 1 January 1960, in application of Article 76(b) of the UN Charter, French Cameroons gained independence from France and became known as La République du Cameroun, or in English, the Republic of Cameroon.

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'NORTHERN CAMEROONS': Restoration Government’s Official Statement

28 May 2008

Cameroun Republic, the colonial aggressor occupying the Southern Cameroons, believes it is smart. In its continuing wretched attempt to fool the outside world and to deflect internal and international challenge to its colonization of the Southern Cameroons it has desperately tried to blackmail Nigeria to turn a blind eye to the hijack of the territory of the Southern Cameroons and its people by Cameroun Republic.

Lacking any legal foot on which to stand in regard to its theft of the Southern Cameroons it has gone knocking at Nigeria's door. It is begging Nigeria to help it formulate a response to Communication No. 2 filed against it by the Southern Cameroons in the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights. That pathetic request has been roundly rebuffed by Nigeria. Piqued at having been rebuffed, Cameroun Republic has decided to use the tool of blackmail, its well-attested stock in trade. It is now telling Nigeria that the Southern Cameroons is seeking to recover the erstwhile Northern Cameroons and that if Nigeria does not adopt the attitude of indifference to Cameroun Republic's colonial occupation of the Southern Cameroons then Cameroun Republic would raise what in its delusional mindset it sees as the spectre of secession of erstwhile Northern Cameroons from Nigeria. Cameroun Republic pretends not to know that there is not the remotest possibility of that happening in a thousand years or more. Speaking through its agents it makes occasional cacophonous utterances about erstwhile Northern Cameroons, fraudulently claiming the UN is now interested in reconstituting the British Cameroons Trust Territory and in granting it independence.

"Southern Cameroons" and the "SCNC": The Birth of Consciousness

August 17, 2007

Like the hard line French surrogate Hutus in Rwanda who carried out a French-sponsored genocide but lost power, the regime in la Republique du Cameroun, erected after the successful implementation of another French-sponsored genocide in the 1950s and 1960s and still in power, have remained absolutely intransigent to civilized calls for dialogue to bring a peaceful end to the brutal and illegal Franco-Camerounese occupation of the Southern Cameroons.

Fourteen years ago, in early April of 1993, in what can be considered to be the re-birth of the Southern Cameroons consciousness that led to the creation of a genuine Liberation Movement in the Southern Cameroons against French rule, which includes the Southern Cameroons National Council (SCNC), SCYL and others, the Buea Declaration of the All Anglophone Congress was made. It began thus:

"We, the people of Anglophone Cameroon, from whom a representation of more than five thousand delegates coming from a total of thirteen regions which make our territory (Boyo, Bui, Donga-Mantung, Fako, Kupe-Manenguba, Liabelem, Manyu, Meme, Menchum, Mezam, Momo, Ndian, Ngonkitunjia) as well as the entire Cameroon, having in its midst experienced politicians and old traditional leaders, spiritual and religious chiefs, leaders of political parties, deputies and members of the Economic and Social Council, peasants, workers, students and elites of all professions, are assembled in Anglophone congress, at the Mount Mary maternity center in the historic town of Buea, this second and third day of the month of April 1993, with an aim of adopting a joint position of all Anglophones with regards to the national debate on constitutional reform which will soon open, as well as to examine other subjects which relate to our wellbeing and that of our descendants, our territory and the entire nation of Cameroon."

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The Legal Argument For Southern Cameroons Independence

"An annexed people is always for a king or an Emperor a matter of complex problems. For his own people are always divided on the annexation like the annexed people themselves: he always has sleepless nights over them until the annexed people free themselves by sword or by negotiation; for the ashes of annexation are never completely cold."

Nicolo Machiaveli

"The Southern Cameroons was given an international status in 1922 as a League of Nations Mandated Territory under British Administration. In 1931, the League of Nations requested Britain and France to landmark the international boundary between the British Cameroons and French Cameroun. So on 9 January 1931, the "Cameroons Boundary Commission" met in London. Under the supervision of the League of Nations. Administrators of the British Cameroons and those of French Cameroun landmarked the international boundary by building concrete cement pillar marks along the boundary: each landmark was the object of a specific topographic document which was co-signed by the administrators of both countries"

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

Articulating Rejection

French Fascists And Another List

The Guardian Post Nº 2017 published last month, carries on page six an article titled: “Gov’t presses for deportation of SCNC diaspora activists.”

The IG Research Bureau is publishing the page six article as it appeared because it comes on the heels of the circulation on the internet of a list of Southern Cameroonian activists that France and la République du Cameroun are eager to see targeted for elimination.

In early 1994, it was reported that France’s surrogates in Kigali, Rwanda were circulating a list of potential targets for elimination; we know how that story ended. We also know that French military advisers like Jean Pierre Huchon who provided distinguished service to the genocidal regime Kigali has spent some time in Yaoundé in the past training those who safeguard France’s interest in their colony. Recently, after the rumored death of France’s colonial jungle agent, Paul Biya of la République du Cameroun surfaced, the specter of a list was again invoked; with Cardinal Christian Tumi, the Arch Bishop of Douala prominent amongst those to be eliminated. So serious were the allegations that the Cardinal requested and got a meeting with the Secretary General of la République du Cameroun’s presidency.

The people of the Southern Cameroons must heed the lessons of Rwanda yesterday, and Côte d’Ivoire today--the French and their African agents will stop at nothing to maintain the slave era exploitation that undeservedly and disproportionately benefits the French in what they fondly call their “reserved hunting grounds” in Africa.

THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE RESTORED SOVEREIGN SOUTHERN CAMEROONS

TABLE OF CONTENTS

*INTRODUCTION 2
*WHERE WE ARE GOING 4
*THE STRUCTURE OF OUR COUNTRY 6
*EDUCATION 7
-Natural Laws 8
-Self-Knowledge and Life Skills 8
-Time Management 8
-Teamwork 8
-Motivational or Inspirational Studies 9
-Nutrition 9
-Traditional Educational Subjects 9
*JUSTICE 10
-Independence of the Judiciary 11
-Protecting the Constitution 12
*REFORMING PARLIAMENTARY REPRESENTATION 13
*CORRUPTION 14
-Complete Separation of the State and Political Parties 15
*WOMEN 16
*CHILD UPBRINGING 17
*TECHNOLOGY 18
*CARVING OUT A SPECIALISATION FOR SOUTHERN CAMEROONS OR GIVING SOUTHERN CAMEROONS A RELATIVE ADVANTAGE 19
*MIGRATION 20

ON THE BAKASSI ISSUE AND RULING

THE GROSS ILLEGALITY AND MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE ON THE BAKASSI ISSUE AND RULING

All United Nations Declarations forbid the illegal acquisition of territory. This means that no territory can be accepted as belonging to a country unless it was acquired through internationally recognized norms. The African Union’s Constitutive Act in Article 4(c) (to which la République du Cameroun has acceded) also entrenches the principle of the immutability of frontiers that were acquired at independence. Article 102 (1) of the UN Charter obliges all UN members to deposit any treaties into which they enter, at the secretariat of the United Nations, as soon as possible; and Article 102(2) bars any member of the UN from invoking any treaty to its aid that does not conform to the provisions of Article 102(1).

La République du Cameroun achieved its independence on January 1 1960 within a clearly defined frontier which does not include the Southern Cameroons; that frontier being to the East of the River Mungo which marks the international boundary, as per the 1931 Anglo-French border Treaty, between la République du Cameroun and Southern Cameroons. All maps presented in the Bakassi case between la République du Cameroun and Nigeria show the disputed Bakassi peninsular to be located indisputably within the territory of the Southern Cameroons. The question is this: By what Treaty, international legal instrument or UN Resolution, has the boundary of la République du Cameroun been purportedly recognized, within the United Nations system, as having moved from what it was at the attainment of its independence on January 1 1960, to Bakassi?

SOUTHERN CAMEROONS 11 FEBRUARY, 2006 PETITION TO THE UK GOVERNMENT

SOUTHERN CAMEROONS DE-COLONISATION STRUGGLE

PETITION TO THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN & NORTHERN IRELAND BY THE SCYL, THE SCNC AND THE SOUTHERN CAMEROONS INTERIM GOVERNMENT (IG)

11 February, 2006

The Rt. Hon. Tony Blair, MP
Prime Minister of Great Britain
No. 10 Downing Street
London

Mr. Prime Minister,

Today, the bruised and tormented people of the former UN trust territory of the Southern Cameroons under UK administration hold a peaceful demonstration at Downing Street. We do so to call attention to the historical wrong that was done to the Southern Cameroons, when the UK transferred the territory to the French-controlled State of Cameroun Republic. As administering authority, the UK's legal obligation under the UN Charter was to lead the Southern Cameroons to self-government/independence, not to hand it over to another State for colonization. We legitimately expect the UK along with her friends and in concert with the concerned parties to take necessary measures, without further delay, to correct the injustice that was done to the Southern Cameroons over forty-six years ago.

Mr. Prime Minister, Sir, we wish to recall the background to this vexed question, show briefly in what ways the UK betrayed the "trust" that was conferred on her, and reiterate what we have said several times before, namely, that we have nothing to gain by remaining a colonized people and that we are fully committed and determined to be a free people, come what may, like all other people of the world.