NO RUPTURE: Sarkozy Insults Africa and Preserves Francafrique

July 31, 2007

A preening Mr. Nicolas Sarkozy during a press conference in Gabon said that "one cannot blame everything on colonisation... the corruption, the dictators, the genocides, that is not colonisation." Where Jacques Chirac had left off telling Africans that democracy was a luxury for them and they should worry instead about their bellies, Mr. Nicolas Sarkozy continued by declaring at the University of Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar earlier in his mini-tour of Africa that the "African peasant only knows the eternal renewal of time, rhythmed by the endless repetition of the same gestures and the same words ... in this imaginary world where everything starts over and over again, there is no place for human adventure or for the idea of progress." In not so many words, like Jacques Chirac who preceded him, Mr. Nicolas Sarkozy exposed his instrinsic and instinctive belief of Africans to be sub-humans, animals.
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The French rupture with the past Mr. Sarkozy spoke of, as we predicted, does not apply to sub-humans. Mr. Sarkozy has underscored this by pointedly meeting 2 brutal, corrupt and long-serving African dictators (who incidentally are being sued in French courts for corruption and embezzlement) at the beginning of his term: Omar Bongo Ondimba who became the president of Gabon in 1967 when Mr. Sarkozy was all of 12 years old, and Dennis Sassou Nguesso of Congo who has been president on and off for 23 years, just under half of Mr. Sarkozy's 52 years on earth.

When the French and their imperial president terminates the Cooperation Agreements linking them to their former colonies that continues to enforce colonial practices and has effected genocides in la Republique du Cameroun, Rwanda and Congo-Brazzaville and massive massacres in Algeria, Madagascar and Cote d'Ivoire, then Mr. Sarkozy will be taken seriously.

For the people of the Southern Cameroons, we once again call on the imperial French President, Mr. Nicolas Sarkozy de Nagy-Bocsa to end their colonial occupation of the Southern Cameroons by immediately removing their Operation Aramis from our territory.

The Southern Cameroons IG views Operation Aramis as being similar to the Operation Noirot that preceded and mestatasized into the nerve center of the French genocide in Rwanda in 1994.

The Southern Cameroons IG considers the declarations made during la Republique du Cameroun's recent elections by high-ranking officials of the French-sponsored Yaounde regime such as Mr. Etame Massoma and Ephraim Inoni stoking bigotry and "ethnic" hatred similar to declarations that were being made by Rwandese officials under the protection of Operation Noirot and the tutelage of France that lead up to the French genocide in Rwanda. These are practices that are being encouraged by the French advisers in Yaounde, la Republique du Cameroun.

The Post newapaper (No. 0879 of July 30, 2007) quotes Mr. Etame Massoma as saying a rival political party was "an anglophone [Southern Cameroons] party, that had nothing to do with francophones [citizens of the French la Republique du Cameroun]." Mr. Ephraim Inoni on his part campaigned in his native Southwest province against what he termed a "Northwest party" by instructing local administrators not to allow a win of a rival political party perceived to be relatively less unpopular, according to media reports. Reacting to these declarations, the head of the rival political party was quoted in The Post as saying: "We see in this trend the same type of discrimination that built up to the Rwanda genocide."

Going by the French historical record in Africa that Mr. Sarkozy is positioning himself to perpetuate, we tell him that France's current de-facto status as colonial master in francophone Africa and in the Southern Cameroons promotes corruption, dictators and genocides.

We call on the French, President Nicolas Sarkozy de Nagy-Bocsa and their colony, la Republique du Cameroun, to leave the territory of the Southern Cameroons in accordance with international laws.

FRANCE and CHARLES TAYLOR

In an interview accorded to Radio France Internationale's Christophe Boisbouvier, Amara Essy, former Ivorian foreign minister and head of the African Union Commision, reveals the role France played in the carnage that swept through West Africa, especially Liberia and Sierra Leone, for much on the nineties.

After the end of the Cold War, France instituted a policy to "expand their influence on the continent to anglophone and lusophone countries, while maintaining their special relationship with francophone Africa."

In Charles Taylor, the Cellule Africaine at the Elysee Palace under Jacques Rene Chirac found just the kind of African the French adore. France was to be the only western country to honor Charles Taylor with a state visit.

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The Ivorian daily, Le Matin d'Abidjan editorial on Mr. Amara Essy revelations follows:

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10 Reasons Africa Should Boycott the France-Africa Summit of Feb. 15/16, 2007

1) France has an undisputed record of practicing genocide in Africa, the largest being the 1994 Rwandan genocide that led to the death of 1 million Africans.

2) France is the only racist and predatory European country that remains in Africa practicing colonialism long after that crime against humanity should have ended.

3) Africans sacrificed their lives to rescue France from Nazi occupation only to end up herded into suburban ghettos and be referred to as “scum”.

4) The French invited the RPF to Paris in 1992 for negotiations to end the civil war in Rwanda and then sent their Gestapo at midnight to raid the hotel rooms of Paul Kagame and his aides, like only Nazis can do, in an attempt to intimidate them and make them submit to French will.

5) In 1944 while the Allies (Britain and the USA) were chasing Nazis and wiping them out of Europe, France was busy codifying laws in Brazzaville establishing itself as the preeminent Nazi power in Africa.

6) France plants retrograde and eccentric dictators in Africa to suck the life blood out of its citizens for France. No African should be paid to stand with them in their line of dishonor.

7) The French President, Jacques Chirac, like the old time white supremacist that he is claimed he understood the soul and mentality of the African better than Africans. No African with a head on his or her shoulder should try to reason with such a man.

8) France remains the only European country to maintain expeditionary forces in Africa long after this practice was unacceptable.

9) The French state is a psychopathic construct that is plagued with the Fashoda Syndrome and other pathologies that compel insecurities and megalomaniac tendencies urging in them the need to be heard even when they have nothing to say.

10) France is a 5th rate power that depends on others for its survival and pretenses around the world. It has nothing to offer to Africa other than a culture of death.

Paul Kagame : "Les Rwandais veulent des excuses de Paris"

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President Museveni: France is "Africa's Problem which Needs an Immediate Solution"

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Posted to the web December 12, 2006
By James Munyaneza
Kigali

The days of France's interference into the internal affairs of Rwanda are long gone, President Paul Kagame has said. Kagame, who was addressing a press conference yesterday at Village Urugwiro, said the French government has had a history of arrogance and dictating what should be done in some African countries, especially the former French colonies.

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French Soldiers Raped Us - Witnesses

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Posted to the web December 14, 2006

By Chris Mupenzi
Kigali

The Mucyo Commission on the role of French in the 1994 genocide heard yesterday that French soldiers raped Tutsi women and smuggled opium among other social ills.

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CHIRAC & BIYA: How Would Like Your Daughters Raped?

Culled the The Post
Posted on Postnewsline.com on 12/7/2006
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Gendarmes Rape 14 Yr. Old On UB Campus
By Ernest Sumelong


Two gendarmes, deployed in Buea to forestall students' strike, have allegedly raped a form two student of the Government Secondary School, GSS Bokova.

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Death Comes Again to the University of Buea, Southern Cameroons

November 30, 2006
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The Chiracs and Puppet-tyrant colonial governor Paul Biya of la République du Cameroun

As has been revealed by Pierre Messmer, a former colonial governor of French Cameroun and Prime Minister of France, the Southern Cameroons, against international law, became annexed to the colonial French territory of la République du Cameroun at a ruse of a Conference in Foumban that both the British and UN conspiratorially boycotted. With it's slave "Cooperation Agreements" and military pacts that train African death squads between France and her colony la République du Cameroun in tow, the people of the Southern Cameroons became exposed to this French dementia and have been paying a dear price as France along with her African surrogates in Yaounde continue their symphony of death in the Southern Cameroons.

Below are more images to add to the Hall of Infamy that France is erecting all over Africa, instrumentalising corruption and hate to dehumanize and program Africans, as reports coming from Rwanda of late have revealed, to kill each other. Here in the Southern Cameroons, in Buea, at the foot of the Fako Mountain, in the land where a local hero Chief Kuva Likenye braved the German expeditionary forces in defense of his humanity and that of his people, we the people of the Southern Cameroons must confront another European predator and their African vassals:

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And the French Culture of Death marches on in Africa and the Southern Cameroons:

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The Southern Cameroons: UB Students Revolt

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November 28, 2006

The Southern Cameroons Interim Government commends the intellectually honest and politically correct strike action the University of Buea students are currently engaged in in response to the programmed destruction of the higher education institutions of the peoples of the Southern Cameroons.

After attempts in the mid 80s to completely bastardize the General Certificate of Education (GCE) and render it less valuable in the eyes of global institutions of higher learning were halted by protest action by teenagers in schools like CPC Bali, and after only brave and heroic attempts could launch the GCE Board in the 90s by the mothers and fathers of the Southern Cameroons, the French puppets in Yaounde have not given up the dream to destroy the anglosaxon-inspired educational system of the Southern Cameroons even as some of their kids flood our secondary and high schools.

Under French tutelage the criminal regime in Yaounde, with its armed forces trained and supplied by the genocidal French will soon descend on children peacefully protesting in Buea with the type of babarism that has become the trademark of the tyrants under French tutelage in Africa.

The Southern Cameroons Interim Government prays for the safety of our sons, daughters, brothers and sisters in Buea.

Media & Communication Department
Southern Cameroons Interim Government

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Genocide widows in anti-France demo

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By GASHEEGU MURAMILA
Tuesday, 28 November 2006

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PICTURED: The Vice Mayor of Kigali City Jean D’arc Gakuba listens to some of the demonstrating widows yesterday near the France-Rwanda Cultural Centre.( Photo /G. barya)


Over one hundred widows who lost their spouses during the 1994 genocide yesterday took to the streets, protesting against the French Government. The seemingly angry widows, many in their early fifties, chanted anti-France slogans as they marched through the streets of the city, protesting against France and Magistrate Jean Louise Brugueire’s claims that members of the Rwanda Patriotic Front/Army downed former president Juvenal Habyarimana’s plane that sparked off the genocide. The peaceful demonstration dubbed ‘the verification strike’ followed Rwanda’s severing of ties with France and brought together widows from different genocide widows’ associations led by the major umbrella organization Avega Agahozo.



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Post News Magazine: Southern Cameroons Thunderbolt

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VIVA WORLD CUP: Southern Cameroons vs. Monaco on Nov. 20.2006

VIVA WORLD CUP PARTICIPANTS
Monaco
Located on the Cote d'Azur
Population: 32,000

Southern Cameroons
Formerly part of the British Mandate territory of Cameroons
Population: 2.1m [Editors Note: 6.5m]

Lapland (Samiland)
Located in Northern Europe, spanning parts of Finland, Norway, Russia and Sweden
Population: estimated 85,000

Occitania
Comprises parts of Southern France, Italian Alps, Catalan region of Spain and Monaco
Population: 13m

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"The French airlifted people from Bugesera in helicopters and brought them to be killed in Nyungwe forest"

Posted to the web October 26, 2006

By Felly Kimenyi & Edwin Musoni
Kigali

The French soldiers established several communes in the former Gikongoro province, now Southern Province, on their arrival to what they called Operation Turquoise, MP Desire Nyandwi, the sixth witness in the role of France Genocide probe said yesterday. "Upon their arrival in Gikongoro, the French wielded a lot of power in that they dethroned some of the Bourgmasters whom they deemed incompetent and recruited others. An example is the one of the former Nyamagabe commune," he said in his two-hour testimony.

Nyandwi, a former local government Minister, also said that he had that the French airlifted people from Bugesera in helicopters and brought them to be killed in Nyungwe forest.
He disagreed with the view that the French were deployed there to restore peace saying; "The environment could explain this, people were fleeing and killings were persistent, what peace did they restore?"

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Witness Pins Down France On Genocide

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Witness Pins Down France On Genocide

The New Times (Kigali)
NEWS
October 25, 2006
Posted to the web October 25, 2006

By Edwin Musoni
Kigali

The first witness testifying against the alleged involvement of the French government in the genocide that left close to one million people dead has said that he witnessed France's illegal arrest and detention of the senior RPA/F officials including President Paul Kagame. The former Rwandan Ambassador to France, Ambassador Jacque Bihozagara took the number one witness stand yesterday to give a chronology of events of the French leading to, or during the genocide. "In 1992, we went to France, with Kagame (the President), Aloysia Inyumba, Patrick Mazimphaka and Colonel Emmanuel Ndahiro. Our purpose of visit was to advise the Paris government to pull out from the war that was going on in Rwanda" testified Bihozagara

He added, "In our first evening in Paris, Colonel Ndahiro disappeared. We spent the whole night looking for him and in the morning, the French police stormed our hotel and they roughly and rudely checked our rooms"

Bihozagara said that at the hotel, the police brought with them Colonel Ndahiro as a captive.

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France accused on Rwanda killings

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French Troops Escorting their Hutu Power Militia

A former senior Rwandan diplomat has told a tribunal that France played an active role in Rwanda's 1994 genocide. Former Rwandan ambassador to Paris Jacques Bihozagara said French involvement stemmed from concerns about its diminishing influence in Africa. France has denied playing any role in the 100-day frenzy of killing in which 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus died.

After the hearings, the Rwandan panel will rule on whether to file a suit at the International Court of Justice. The panel is headed by former Justice Minister Jean de Dieu Mucyo and its proceedings, which began in the Rwandan capital, Kigali, on Tuesday, are being broadcast live on local radio. It is hearing from 25 survivors of the genocide, who claim to have witnessed French involvement. "This is an important inquiry that should be witnessed by everyone interested in this important episode of our history," Mr Mucyo was quoted as saying by the AFP news agency.

'No regret'

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France: Une Histoire des Génocides en Afrique

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Dans "Histoire secrète de la Ve République", le patron du Sdece révèle comment a été décidé l'assassinat en 1960 de Félix-Roland Moumié, le leader de l'UPC. Sous la direction Roger Faligot et Jean Guisnel, l'ouvrage de 750 pages cite aussi le témoignage sur cette "guerre spéciale" au Cameroun de Max Bardot, un pilote d'hélicoptère présent dans le pays de 1962 à 1964. Le voici, terrible : "En deux ans l'armée régulière a pris le pays bamiléké du Sud jusqu'au Nord et l'a complètement ravagé. Ils ont massacré de 300 000 à 400 000 personnes. Un vrai génocide.



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Despite Troops Deployment, SCNC Activists Hoist Flags in Buea, B'da, Bui ...

The Post (Buea)
NEWS
October 3, 2006
Posted to the web October 3, 2006

By Chris Mbunwe, Peterkins Manyong & Pegue Manga

In Buea, police pulled down a flag that was hoisted at the government practising primary school Molyko flagpole. The headmaster of the school, Chief Elongo Kombe, is said to have called the police who lowered the flag, but no arrests were made as the activists reportedly went unnoticed. SCNC activists also succeeded in hoisting flags at Atuakom and Mulang Quarters in Bamenda. The flag in Mulang was mounted near the office of the fire brigade. The largest flag, The Post learnt, was hoisted at St. John's Church where John Ngu Foncha was buried. According to SCNC supporters, the flag was hosted in honour of the late statesman.

Out of Bamenda, The Post gathered, two flags were hoisted in Tubah: Bambui and Bambili, where suspects were reportedly arrested, and one in Bamendankwe. In Bamendankwe, it is said the Mezam County Chairman, Emmanuel Muma, read the SCNC National Chairman's Independence Day address after the singing of the Southern Cameroons National anthem.

Six flags were reportedly also hoisted in Bafut. In Bui, The Post was told, a flag was hoisted near the SDO's residence early in the morning. It was brought down by security forces at 2.35 pm. There, it was said, a hunt for SCNC activists was underway. In Nkambe, a demonstration followed the hoisting of flags. Before October 1, it is alleged that four people were arrested reportedly on instructions of the DO, Simon Achu.

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The Barbarism of French Cameroun

In Droves, Nigerians Flee [la Republique du Cameroun], Tell Tales of Horror

Vanguard (Lagos)
ANALYSIS
September 2, 2006
Posted to the web September 2, 2006

By John Ighodaro
Calabar

We suffered so much in Cameroon. We paid smoke tax, firewood tax, boat tax, woman tax. We had no rest of mind because you didn't know what they would tell you to pay the next day. I won't go back to Cameroon. Although I was born in Cameroon , you can't claim to be their national by (circumstances of your) birth. They won't allow it

NO less than two thousand Nigerians arrived Calabar, Cross River state, Wednesday, with tales of woes like others before them. It was the third batch that sailed from Cameroon in the wake of the seeming hostility and obvious tension since Nigeria handed over the disputed Bakassi peninsula to her neighbour.

In similar fashion, two batches of Nigerians living in different parts of Cameroon had fled the latter, fearing intimidation and voicing out how they have been so badly treated and singled out for over-taxation by their host country.

What had initially perplexed millions of their compatriots at home was why these Nigerians were fleeing from Yaounde, Douala and other cities in the mainland Cameroon even when their country had since withdrawn its troops from Bakassi. This time, their plights do not have much to do with the controversies over the oil-rich Bakassi.

But as they heaved sighs of relief on arriving their fatherland, it was lamentation galore as the returnees spoke of the ill treatment and the humiliation they were made to face. And for thousands of these troubled Nigerians, it was one pill too bitter to swallow.

But what were their specific reasons for calling it a day in Cameroon? What advice do they have for the Nigerian government, especially concerning those of their other fellow countrymen and women out there? Will they go back when the feelers emerge that normalcy may have returned?

Saturday Vanguard spoke to some of these returnee Nigerians and they share their views below.

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Southern Cameroons Youth League Leader Speaks

Culled from Postnewsmagazine.com (August 2006 Issue)

"SOCADEF stands for the Southern Cameroons Defence Force. It was born in Abuja, Nigeria, on August 9, 2003 as a direct answer to the dastardly crimes perpetrated against humanity by the regime in Yaounde that is controlled by Africa's most dangerous secret society, the Essingan Mafia. SOCADEF is a reaction against a docile and treacherous diplomacy by certain Western countries who do not think that the people of the Southern Cameroons have a right to the pursuit of joy, happiness, security and freedom. It came as the answer to the policy of appeasement which the West has extended to the occultist thieving bureaucrats in Yaounde, and by so doing telling them to go ahead with the carnage against a people whose only crime is the yearning for freedom. Yes, SOCADEF was formed so that generations of future Southern Cameroonians will be able to enjoy a true legacy of a lasting Permanent Positive Peace."

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Inciting War in the Gulf of Guinea

IG Research Bureau
July 12, 2006


The United Nations Nigeria-Cameroun Mixed Commission is meeting this week in Abuja to deliberate on the implementation of the so-called Greentree Accord. On June 12, 2006 the Federal Republic of Nigeria and French Cameroun (République du Cameroun) signed an Accord in New York orchestrated by France using Kofi Annan. It required that within 90 days, the Federal Republic of Nigeria begin the handover of Bakassi to French Cameroun, a country engaging in documented acts of state-sponsored terror as a colonial occupation force; a country that does not share a maritime boundary with Nigeria and rules the territory and people of the Southern Cameroons of which Bakassi is part of, as a brutal colonial occupier on behalf of France.

This illegitimate action done under the cover of dark in a suburb of New York City, far away from the realities and aspirations, and with absolute disregard to the well being of the human beings affected, reeks of the Berlin Conference of 1884 where Europeans sought to maintain the spoils of slavery after that vile and wicked practice had been outlawed. That fellow Africans partook in this farce in 2006 is quite unfortunate. But seeing the shameful record of failure of Kofi Annan in Rwanda, Darfur and Ivory Coast, it comes as no surprise that he supervised this French-inspired scheme.

However, it can now be said with some certainty that what was accomplished on June 12, 2006 in New York has been an incitement to war in the Gulf of Guinea: Chief Etinyin Etim Okon Edet of Bakassi is said to have written his will; a group called Bakassi Movement for Self-Determination (BAMOSD) has emerged, determined to press for the legitimate right of self-determination of the inhabitants of Bakassi that was arrogantly disregarded in New York; the Camerounese consulate in Calabar has been invaded by students native to Bakassi, challenging the mortgaging of their humanity; the Southern Cameroons Peoples Organisation (SCAPO) has declared that a new independent republic of the Southern Cameroons and Bakassi is in the offing.

On June 13, 2006, the Interim Government of the Southern Cameroons in exile (IG) noted the agreement with a Press Release that pointed out that the reasons why Nigeria was reluctant to honor the ruling of the court since 2002 has not changed.

When Nigeria follows through with the agreement and hands over Bakassi to French control, the following, amongst others, will come to pass:

• Politically and administratively, the local government and administration of Bakassi will be abolished and replaced by an appointed Prefêt who only speaks the French language and commands a gang of gun carrying and trigger-happy gendarmes who speak and only understand the French language. The governor of the province the Bakassi people will belong to is appointed and takes his orders from Yaoundé, where the commissioned puppet, Paul Biya (who would have been in power for a quarter of a century in 2007), under the tutelage of France waits for his own orders from a racist dictator in Paris.

• Economically, taxes will increase and will be collected enthusiastically by gun carrying men in uniform who play cop, make instant laws, and play judge and executioner all at the same time. Paying taxes on time and with the right amount does not save one from the torture that these men will still exact to extort money on the roadsides with no option for their subjects to seek redress. Any real businesses owned and operated by the people of Bakassi, individually or collectively without the control of Yaoundé, should expect to be undermined and in time seized outright by use of force, sabotage or fraud, without any compensation whatsoever.

• Socio-culturally, social services, community development organizations, road infrastructure, health care and any other service that caters to the welfare and well-being of the Bakassi people, empowering them to live like human beings in a civilized society will be abolished, neglected or outright destroyed to render the people helpless and hopelessly looking towards Yaoundé and Paris for their survival. The people of Bakassi should expect to be made in every way possible to feel inferior to an inferior language and culture because they speak English and are of the Anglo-Saxton cultural heritage. They cannot be allowed to obey any other reason or rationale that is not French and comes from France to serve French interests.

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FRENCH TWISTED: Don't Help Paris Rape Africa

By Ralph Peters
New York Post
June 19, 2006

THIS spring, I visited French-speaking West Africa. Wherever I went, two things remained consistent: The French government was hated, and Africans looked to Washington for a square deal.

President Jacques Chirac and his racist minions know it, and they don't like it, and they're trying to do something about it: Sucker America into showing "solidarity with an ally in the War on Terror." The French want our military and diplomatic cooperation - but not our economic presence, of course. Let me translate what the parasites of Paris really mean: "Support our brutality and exploitation of West Africa, stiff-arm tens of millions of Africans yearning to be free of French neo-imperialism - and just maybe we clever Frenchmen will toss you stupid Americans a little bone now and then."

And we're in danger of falling for it.

In the half-century since France thrust a phony independence on colonies such as Ivory Coast, Senegal and Mali, the French government and French business interests have looted everything they possibly could. To Paris, African "independence" meant business as usual, except that Paris would no longer accept any responsibility for the welfare of the local populations.

It was a free ride for the Frogs, guaranteed by a French military that had failed everywhere else, but remained sufficiently competent to bully unarmed Africans. One French government after another supported pro-Paris strongmen, from the relatively benign Houphouet-Boigny of Ivory Coast, who merely bankrupted his country with nutty construction projects, to Jean Bedell-Bokassa, a literal cannibal who frequently played host to then-President Valery Giscard-D'Estaing.

But the winds of freedom have been blowing, often in unexpected places. The era of African "Big Men" is over, even if a few linger on. And Africans want real freedom this time, not French colonization in disguise.

In Ivory Coast, the French utterly mismanaged a 2002 rebellion they thought they could manipulate. Their efforts at playing the factions off against each other exploded, shattering a country that had been a source of pride and great profit to Paris. Muslim or Christian, northerner or southerner, the one commonality I found among the people of Ivory Coast was that they all now hate the French.

Even in Senegal, the country that has had the most benign relationship with France, the people are tired of French bullying and condescension. Throughout the region, animosity toward Paris - especially the ham-handed government of Jacques Chirac - has reached a tipping point past which legitimate anger threatens to turn into irrational fury.

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Rêver la fin du Pacte colonial

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Mamadou Koulibaly, President of Cote d'Ivoire's National Assembly

Contribution - «Je vois bien que certains pays d’Afrique avec lesquels la France avait depuis toujours entretenu des rapports d’amitié paraissent aujourd’hui la rejeter. Ceux qui s’en prennent à la France et l’accusent de tous les maux, sont eux-mêmes dans le passé et ils semblent avoir besoin d’un bouc émissaire pour cacher leur propre incurie et s’inventent par ce nouveau mythe une légitimité de façade. Qu’ils trouvent eux-mêmes leur chemin. Peut-être nous retrouverons-nous plus tard.» Nicolas Sarkozy : Discours de politique africaine prononcé le 19 mai à Cotonou.

La vision et les pratiques

Dans un an environ, l’Afrique aura une réelle opportunité historique de redéfinir ses relations tumultueuses avec la France. Saura-t-elle profiter de cette aubaine ? Il faut l’espérer.
Malgré une fin de règne désastreuse, comme c’est le cas pour tous les chefs d’Etat français depuis 1958, Charles de Gaulle demeure pour les Français un homme exceptionnel. Il a su, au nom de la survie de la France, s’allier aux britanniques et aux américains quand c’était nécessaire, pour combattre le nazisme. De la même manière, au nom de l’intérêt de la France, il n’a pas hésité à renvoyer les Américains chez eux le moment venu, en leur demandant de fermer leurs bases militaires situées sur le sol français. Au delà du caractère historique qui découle de faits de guerre, de Gaulle a offert à la France la Vème République et l’a dotée de deux instruments majeurs qui apportent à la France, d’une part, sa grandeur et sa qualité de pays des droits de l’Homme à l’intérieur de ses frontières, et d’autre part, son reniement de soi et sa négation des valeurs universelles à l’extérieur de ses frontières, notamment dans les anciennes colonies.

Ces instruments ont deux composantes : une vision et une pratique. Mieux, une vision pour la France, et une pratique mafieuse pour l’Afrique. Un côté noble et une face sombre. Ces deux faces de la même pièce sont incarnées par deux hommes. De Gaulle s’est fait porteur de vision. Celle qui peut être fièrement brandie à la face du monde et consignée dans les manuels d’histoire destinés aux petits français. Cette vision s’est traduite dans les faits par, la volonté d’indépendance à l’égard de l’Américain libérateur, indépendance concrétisée par exemple par la sortie de la France de l’Otan, la dotation de la France de l’arme nucléaire, certes avec l’aide des Américains, et un certain rayonnement de la France dans le monde notamment en s’appuyant sur les anciennes colonies dans une relation fortement déséquilibrée à l’avantage notable de la France. La face moins glorieuse de la Vème République, celle des pratiques barbouzes que l’on s’évertue à taire est incarnée par le ténébreux Jacques Foccart. Les Africains se souviendront longtemps de lui. Au plus fort des coups d’Etat en Afrique, on disait que chaque coup de force était précédé d’un voyage de Foccart dans le pays concerné ou un pays voisin, avec son titre de secrétaire général à l’Elysée chargé de la Communauté. Pour le compte de la France et directement sous les ordres de de Gaulle, Foccart travaillait à la déstabilisation des pays africains, dans une période où ces pays étaient supposés avoir eu l’indépendance.

Aujourd’hui la France parle du rôle positif de la colonisation. Une loi a été même votée dans ce sens, avant d’être retirée sous le tollé général. Demain, elle parlera aussi sans doute du rôle positif de Licorne, en ce sens que cette force distribuait des boîtes de chocolats et kits scolaires aux petits ivoiriens. Occultant les atrocités qu’elle commet. Oubliant que cette force a assassiné des dizaines de jeunes ivoiriens et blessé plusieurs milliers, lors de l’exécution du coup d’Etat que Licorne voulait opérer en novembre 2004 contre le président Gbagbo que le peuple avait démocratiquement élu. Les Africains savent que la colonisation présente un bilan désastreux pour le continent. Et la néocolonisation en perpétue les effets néfastes par le biais de l’instrument honteux laissé en héritage par le colonisateur ; les accords de défense et de coopération. Les Français aussi savent que leurs gouvernements se sont salis en Afrique pour le nom de la France.

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FRANCE & GENOCIDE IN AFRICA (II)

Des vétérans de l’Upc demandent réparation pour les massacres attribués à l’armée française.

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Denis Nkwebo
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Trente cinq ans après la fin du maquis camerounais, marqué par l’arrestation puis l’exécution de son dernier chef, Ernest Ouandié, les anciens combattants de l’Armée de libération nationale du Kamerun (Alnk), tiennent toujours à faire entendre leur voix. C’est du moins ce qui a motivé leur sortie médiatique lundi 29 mai, à Douala. Autour de Mathieu Njassep, secrétaire particulier de Ernest Ouandié, condamné à mort en 1971 avec ce dernier et quelques autres de ses camarades, ils étaient plus de cinquante à dire tout le mal qu’ils pensent de la France, "parce que c’est elle qui nous a massacrés et elle doit en répondre".

Prenant la parole au nom de ses frères et sœurs d’armes, dont près d’un millier serait toujours en vie, Mathieu Njassep qui préside l’Association des vétérans du Cameroun (Asvecam), qui regroupe actuellement 200 anciens commandants de maquis, a indiqué qu’ils n’étaient ni des nostalgiques vulgaires, ni des revanchards, mais des gens qui se sont battus pour leur pays. "Il est important de rappeler à l’opinion que le Cameroun a perdu plus d’un million de ses fils et filles dans cette lutte. Les zones de guerre telles que le pays Bassa, Bamiléké, le Moungo, le Sud-Ouest, le Sud, regorgent des charniers dont les victimes n’ont jamais été réhabilitées", explique-t-il. C’est pourquoi, dit-il, l’Asvecam place au cœur de ses revendications "le devoir de mémoire et de reconnaissance, suivi d’une demande de réparations pour panser les plaies d’un lourd contentieux historique, qui fait du Cameroun, avec l’Algérie, les seuls pays d’Afrique coloniale française à avoir mené une lutte de libération violemment réprimée par la France".

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FRANCE & GENOCIDE IN AFRICA (I)

Angry Lekota blames UN, France for genocide

Kigali - South African defence minister Mosiuoa Lekota on Tuesday chastised the United Nations and the French government for not taking responsibility for their role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide which left an estimated 800 000 people dead.

Shaking his head incredulously, Lekota stared at a bed of partially mummified remains lying in their final throes of death, when he visited the Murambi Genocide Memorial in Southern Rwanda.

"We Africans must never again let others lead missions to protect or secure our people," he stated angrily.

The Rwandan government has blamed the French for turning a blind eye to the genocide:
"The French sent a force to allegedly protect those who were being slaughtered but instead it offered help to perpetrators," said the provincial prefect, Nsanzurwanda Epimaque.

While accompanying Lekota and his Rwandan counterpart, general Marcel Gatsinzi, on a tour of the area where an estimated 45 000 Tutsis were slaughtered in Gikorpgoro.

Lekota said that nations who continued to deny their involvement and who continued to harbour those responsible for the Rwandan genocide, must be confronted by the world and asked to explain their actions.

"They need to be accountable not only to the world but to the people of Rwanda," he said.

He also blamed the United Nations (UN) for its failure to intervene in the crises and said that as an organisation it needed to be overhauled.

Many of the mummies were frozen in their final act of self-defence
"It's only once the problem of racism is conquered that we will be able to address such atrocities as these," he said.

He said that an urgent review of the decision-making process within the UN was required to limit the time it took to make decisions in times of crises.

He was referring to Chapter Six of the UN constitution which allows for peace-keeping measures and Chapter Seven that caters for peace enforcement in which UN soldiers are permitted to enter into battle.

Lekota also called on African communities to surrender fugitives who were responsible for the massacre in Rwanda.

Persecutors fled to neighbouring Burundi, Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Uganda following the killing spree.

Many returned to face the war times tribunal set in place by the Arusha Peace Accord in Tanzania.

An estimated 120 000 perpetrators were arrested and are facing trial.

Lekota was visibly shocked and often stopped to stare silently at a pile of bleached bones.

Many of the mummies were frozen in their final act of self-defence - their jaws stretched in a silent scream and their arms held over their heads.

"We South Africans are so lucky that we never experienced anything of this nature," he said. - Sapa

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Combattez-vous toute la France ?

Théophile Kouamouo
Le Courrier d'Abidjan
Parution N° 731 du Mardi 6 Juin 2006

La question m’est souvent posée lors des conférences que je donne en Côte d’Ivoire et ailleurs. Elle vient souvent de jeunes sincèrement universalistes ou de Français se percevant progressistes, effrayés de l’amalgame qui pourrait être fait entre eux et le gouvernement de leur pays. Elle sort aussi de la bouche d’adversaires sournois, qui aimeraient bien que je leur donne un prétexte pour me traiter d’infâme raciste pathologiquement anti-français. «Combattez-vous toute la France ?».

Bien entendu, la réponse est non. Mais elle revient, d’une certaine manière, à n’accuser, au fond, qu’une minorité absolue de politiciens ou de militaires, là où toute une élite administrative, médiatique, culturelle, économique, est complice par son silence du «plus grand scandale de la République.» Répondre non, tout simplement, revient à réinstaller, à peu de frais, le peuple français dans son ensemble dans un confort moral dans lequel il ne peut pas se complaire pendant qu’on commet des crimes en son nom.

Il y a près de cinquante ans, Frantz Fanon disait déjà, dans Peau noire, masques blancs : «oui, la civilisation européenne et ses représentants les plus qualifiés sont responsables du racisme colonial.» Dans le cadre de sa démonstration, il faisait appel à Francis Jeanson, qui avait écrit, dans la revue Esprit de janvier 1950, un article frappant sur la barbarie coloniale en Algérie et sur l’indifférence bien opportuniste du peuple français. Selon Jeanson, tout ressortissant d’une nation est responsable des agissements perpétrés au nom de cette nation. Ses écrits nous rappellent la lâcheté avec laquelle tout le corpus intellectuel hexagonal détourne les yeux quand la Licorne tue devant l’Hôtel Ivoire, sur le pont Charles-de-Gaulle ou au corridor de Duékoué. «Jour après jour, ce système développe autour de vous ses conséquences pernicieuses, jour après jour ses promoteurs vous trahissent, poursuivant au nom de la France une politique aussi étrangère que possible, non seulement à vos véritables intérêts, mais aussi à vos exigences les plus profondes. Vous vous faites gloire de vous maintenir à distance d’un certain ordre de réalités : ainsi laissez-vous les mains libres à ceux que les atmosphères malsaines ne sauraient point rebuter, puisqu’ils les créent eux-mêmes par leur propre comportement. Et si vous parvenez, apparemment, à ne pas vous salir, c’est que d’autres se salissent à votre place. Vous avez des hommes de main, et tout compte fait, c’est vous les vrais coupables : car sans vous, sans votre négligente cécité, de tels hommes ne pourraient pas suivre une action qui vous condamne autant qu’elle vous déshonore.»

Je ne combats pas toute la France, mais assurément je combats celle du silence.

WHEN PIGS WILL FLY: "France-Africa ties 'must change'"

In a recent report on the BBC website captioned “France-Africa ties ‘must change”, it is reported that French presidential hopeful, Nicolas Sarkozy, declared that “France and Africa must change the "old ways" and move past the colonial era.” This is another false dawn in the metropole where the French concoct their poisonous portions against defenseless Africans. No one African soul should be impressed by this perfunctory word play, even if one must note that Mr. Sarkozy is honest enough to realize that the “colonial era” is still wholly in play regarding France-Africa ties in 2006.


One remembers the hope that a leftist François Mitterand generated in the hearts of progressive Africans when he stepped into the Elysée Palace in 1981. He did not sound differently from this Mr. Sarkozy. He put in the young Jean-Pierre Cot as the Minister of Cooperation (you know, The Cooperation Agreements), and no sooner had Mr. Cot began dismantling the nefarious networks at the Cellule Africaine did the françafrique lobby led by people like Bongo and the French business interests that loot Africa protested successfully to have Mr. Cot removed. Mitterrand’s legacy in Africa is his thieving son, Jean-Christophe "Papa m'a dit" Mitterand and his unwavering support of the Hutu fascist genocidaires in Rwanda. François Mitterand's quote regarding the genocide in Rwanda that "in places like that genocide is not important" tells us all we need to know about the entrenched French view of Africans and the consideration they deserve.

More recently, according to F.X. Verschave, Alain Juppé, French Prime Minister (1995-1997), after reading a study that was later to be published under the title of “The Criminalisation of the State in Africa" by Bayart et al, became so distraught that he advised Jacques Chirac that French policy in Africa could not continue as we know it. His reward was that a few weeks after his discussion with Mr. Chirac, it was leaked in the French press that he was involved in a shady deal on an apartment in Paris. He knew then not to mess with the French loot in Africa; not to mess with that France's special relationship with their Negroes down there in the bush of Africa. Mr. Juppé, like Mitterand before him, got the message.

As for Mr. Sarkozy, if elected as president, he may use the monarchial power of the Imperial French presidency to do as he says, but we can not hold our breadth. The nefarious lobbies will fight him to the death, just like the lobbies in Algeria fought DeGaulle, making several attempts on his life when he realized that "L'Algérie [n'était pas] française" after all. He may want to revisit Mitterrand’s and Juppé’s attempts to end this France-Africa colonial era ties.

The end of French colonial rule in Africa, as Mr. Sarkozy seems to acknowledge in 2006, will only come from Africans understanding fully the background of 500 years of slavery and the enormous benefits it gave to Europeans (and continues to give to France in the current context); understanding that colonialism was instituted to replace slavery; and that Cooperation Agreements between France and her African colonies are still in place to maintain the benefits of slavery and colonialism in the guise of "independent" states in Africa. These agreements remain a negation of the humanity of Africans and a return to the doctrine and attitudes of slavery in the modern world. An understanding also of the reality that this paradigm is allowed by the rest of "civilized" world: the nebulous "international community"; for they all know and understand clearly the type of relationships that exists between France and her colonies in 2006. They accept it and legitimize it within a frame work of age-old racist instincts and the reflexive hatred of black Africa.

We in the Southern Cameroons Liberation Movement and especially the IG have made it a point, to at all times articulate this truth, and from this understanding and articulation, our freedom is sure to emerge. The French, the Southern Cameroons successor colonizer, after being handed to them by their British cousins in the furtherance of their Entente Cordiale must be confronted squarely with the evil of their ways. We may even end up freeing the people of LRC from the French before Mr. Sarkozy has a chance to.

In the final analysis, Sarkozy is blowing hot hair, and only a complete digestion of historical perspectives as hinted above and a violent and relentless campaign against the French in Africa will bring the type of changes that Sarkozy is yapping about, for as Frantz Fanon noted, "colonialism is not a thinking machine, nor a body endowed with reasoning faculties. It is violence in its natural state, and it will only yield when confronted with greater violence."

Research Bureau
MedCom, IG

Arrested SCNC Activists Transferred to B'da Central Prison

Arrested SCNC Activists Transferred to B'da Central Prison

The Post (Buea)
NEWS
May 15, 2006
Posted to the web May 15, 2006

By Peterkins Manyong

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Some SCNC activists, who were arrested on May 7 and detained at the Central Police Station, have been transferred to Bamenda Central Prison. The activists were conveyed there the day following the arrests. The Post learnt from Central Police insiders that before the transfer, the older activists, deemed too old to cope with conditions in detention, were released.

Among the detainees was an 85-year-old man. As he was leaving the police cell, the octogenarian mocked the police asking them whether they could drain the Southern Cameroons blood from his veins.

Genevieve Ndagah, an activist, who, not long ago, was a "guest" of the police for her commitment to the Southern Cameroons struggle, told The Post that she too gave a warder a dressing down when she went to visit the detainees, taking along some mattresses and blankets.

At the Bamenda Central Prison, she said she met a policeman who was unwilling to convey the mattresses and bedclothes to the detainees. She said she first berated the policeman for his inability to communicate in the English language, before proceeding to castigate him as an inhuman turnkey. "If you don't understand English, then what are you doing on Southern Cameroons territory?" she reportedly asked the policeman. The beddings were finally taken to the detainees.

"Give Us Death by Firing Squad"*

SCNC Leaders Rearrested

The Post (Buea)
NEWS
May 8, 2006
Posted to the web May 12, 2006

Copyright © 2006 The Post. All rights reserved. Distributed by AllAfrica Global Media (allAfrica.com)

By Peterkins Manyong


Leaders of the Southern Cameroons National Council, SCNC, who were last week arrested and detained in Oku, Bui Division and later released, have been rearrested and detained in Bamenda.

Hitler Mbinglo, Northern Zone Chairman, Fidelis Chinkwo, National Vice Organising Secretary, Martin Ngok, acting Secretary General and Henry Nyah, another official were picked up at a press conference in Rendez-Vous Quarters, Bamenda on Sunday, May 7, by elements of the central police station.

The police said they wanted to record statements from them. But dozens of activists who attended the press conference did not believe the statement and insisted to be arrested too. The Police were however, interested only in the leaders and pushed away the activists who were about to mount the police van.
The activists were later arrested when they sat on the road near the Police Station singing freedom songs and blocking traffic between Old Town and the Bamenda Commercial Avenue. This was after the arrival of Mezam Senior Divisional Officer, SDO, Jules Marcelin Ejaga.

During the press conference that preceded the arrest, the SCNC leaders were briefed supporters on their recent detention in Oku. Mbinglo said 65 of them were arrested. But because there wasn't sufficient space for all of them, those who were indigenes of Oku were released. They wondered why the government announced only their release and not their arrests.

The activists, who said they would be appearing in court in Bui on Monday, May 8, challenged the authorities to charge them under Section 111 of the Penal Code, which prescribes death by firing squad for secessionist activities.

By press time, the activists were still in detention.

*Caption by Web Editors

SCNC Warns Potential Buyers of CDC

The Post (Buea)
NEWS
April 20, 2006

By Chris Mbunwe

Copyright © 2006 The Post. All rights reserved.
Distributed by AllAfrica Global Media (allAfrica.com).


The Southern Cameroons National Council, SCNC, has issued a stern warning that nobody or group of persons, moral or physical, should enter into any transaction whatsoever with Cameroon government on the Cameroon Development Corporation, CDC, or any of its estates located within the Southern Cameroons territory.

"Be warned and stay off CDC lands and estates. We cannot bargain away our patrimony," says Nfor Nfor. In a communiqué dated April 17, copied the UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan, US President George Bush, Jacques Chirac of France, Tony Blair of Britain and a host of others, the SCNC National Vice Chair, Nfor Nfor reiterated that CDC is not for sale. To him la République du Cameroun has no locus standi whatsoever to privatise, sell or transfer all or parts thereof to any person or organisation. "La République Du Cameroun cannot give away what she does not legally own (nomo dat nomo quod).

Any person or organisation wishing to establish the veracity and legality of our firm stand, should challenge or insist on President Paul Biya to present any internationally recognised instruments by which la République du Cameroun came to gain title over the State of Southern Cameroons," goes the communiqué.

Nfor Nfor says from historical facts, la République du Cameroun remains the successor state of French Cameroun, which attained its independence on January 1, 1960.

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SCYL Members Arrested for 'Recruiting' Fighters

The Post (Buea)
NEWS
April 3, 2006
Posted to the web April 3, 2006

By Chris Mbunwe & Francis Tim Mbom

Some 29 or so people said to be members of a supposed Southern Cameroons Youth League, SCYL, Defense Force, are reported to have been arrested in the towns of Mutengene, Mile 16 and Muea in the Southwest Province by gendarmes and detained.

The Post gathered that the said members were picked following a tip-off that volunteers were being recruited into the so-called Southern Cameroons Defense Force code named "SOCADEF." Those arrested are said to have been initially detained at the Mutengene Gendarmerie Brigade and were later transferred to the SONARA Gendarmerie Brigade on or about Monday, March 27.

When The Post approached Adjutant Chef Samuel Mengue of the SONARA Brigade, on Friday, March 31, he said he could not comment on the matter. However, one of his colleagues said the matter was still under investigation.

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British PM Urged To Correct Mistakes in Cameroon

© 2006 Ohmynews
By Yemti Harry Ndienla (mcyemtih)


British PM Urged To Correct Mistakes in Cameroon
People reiterate their inalienable right to exist as a free people

A group of demonstrators from the former U.N. Trust Territory in Southern Cameroons living abroad have issued a strongly worded letter to British Prime Minster Tony Blair. They have called his attention to the historical wrong that was done to Southern Cameroons when the U.K. transferred the territory to the French-controlled state of the Cameroun Republic.

The group -- who last Feb. 11 held a massively attended demonstration at Downing Street, London -- are also expecting the government to take necessary measures without further delay, to correct the injustice that was done over 46 years ago.

As administering authority, the petition argues, the U.K.'s legal obligation under the U.N. Charter was to lead Southern Cameroons to self-government/independence and not hand it over to another state for colonization.

Among other things, the petition signed by Cho Lucas, Secretary General of the Southern Cameroons Youth League (SCYL), reminded the U.K. of having manipulated the U.N. (as evidenced by the sustained wheeling and dealing at the U.N. by Sir Andrew Cohen, the U.K. representative) into imposing on the people of Southern Cameroons a snap and unwanted plebiscite with two dead-end alternatives: whether to join Nigeria (an alternative already rejected by the people) or to join the Cameroun Republic (a country steep in corruption, and massive and reliably attested human rights abuses).

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Response to Paul Biya's 2006 New Year's Address

I read Paul Biya’s New Year speech and since then have been resisting a response my guts wanted to spill out. I have worked out a compromise to reach a restrained version that I can share with you. It would have been better for me not to have read the speech but then I could not resist to read what someone planted by the French enemy to take care of enemy business among his own people will tell the people at the end of the year when good people and organizations are taking time out to reflect on the past year and refocus to do better in the new year starting. I must tell you that I was not surprised.

Paul Biya in his New Year speech told the people of la République du Cameroun (LRC) that he and his gang of French hired agents representing French colonial interests in that colonial state did well in 2005:
a) They paid salaries and pensions on time. What an accomplishment.
b) They also paid outstanding domestic debts and contained price hikes. Incredible! Does this mean they actually redeemed and stopped paying rents/salaries to people whose houses/labor they have taken for years with fiscal stamps, bonds etc. etc., or does it simply mean they just passed out more pieces of papers, without the consent of the receivers, and with no recourse if they do not like it or ever get paid?
c) They said, “while our growth rate has somewhat dwindled and business has been rather sluggish … our future is secured." Only in Françafrique.
Jacques Chirac once said the only things Africans need to worry about is food and medicine. Well, Dr. Paul Biya must have scored an A+ to him for his performance in the year 2005 and may actually qualify for a bye year in 2006 where he’ll do nothing.
After 24 years, sitting on his high horse, on high ground, watching his own people toil in muddy disease infested fields for the Frenchman, Mr. Biya, a whip in hand and a gun in his holster, declares at the end of 2005 that “we pursued the consolidation of the rule of law.” His field hands must be asking whose law he’s talking about. But the answer is not hard to find. It is the law that allows him to promise “decentralization” for 10 years at the end of which he declares it to be “entering its implementation phase.” Great progress.
“Our domestic system is improving from day to day,” the man boldly declares” Mr. President, the system of colonialism cannot be improved. Paying peoples their earned salaries and pensions is not improvement. Well, except in Françafrique. That is why “security” will “remain a cause for concern” in yours and any other French colonial states for a while. The security concerns of LRC are like the security concerns faced by apartheid South Africa not too long ago and Nazi-occupied France. They will not end until you and your kind are gone for good, forever.

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Compelled Repatriation of Nigerians: An Unfolding Drama in the Gulf of Guinea

Southern Cameroonians all over the world have been reading with great distress reports about our Nigerians neighbors, Nigerian friends, Nigerian family members and Southern Cameroonians of Nigerian descent resident in the Southern Cameroons being brutalized, uprooted and shipped to Nigeria under very difficult circumstances without due process. Some of these people have resided in our country for up to fifty years. If that does not make them Southern Cameroonians, what would? This is not surprising to us as the stories they take along with them to Nigeria are similar to those we have faced, reported and repeated to the world for over 40 years now.

The people of the Southern Cameroons and its Interim Government (IG) in particular, strongly denounce and condemn the French planted government of La Republique du Camerouns' actions in our land. This harassing, uprooting and tearing people apart from their natural homes, families, jobs, livelihood and communities in the Southern Cameroons is against our laws, must be against international law and falls short of any civilized behavior in this day and age. This barbaric policy of driving a part of our population out of our land is in pursuit of an "ethnic" cleansing and tribalization policy that the colonizer has been applying in our country for sometime now. This is illegal, it is unacceptable and is evocative of Hitler's policies upon captive peoples and their territories. We can assure the colonizer that this policy of depopulating our country of its natural people will not stand and will not result in maintaining a brutal colonization in our land. We want to assure Nigerians and all foreign nationals in our country that when we take our country back from the forces of occupation they would be treated as Africans should be treated in Africa and as we expect to be treated in their own countries.

It must be noted that as enterprising "Nigerians" are forced out, a primitive and uneducated French speaking population from La Republique du Camerooun is being shipped into The Southern Cameroons. They are enticed with higher salaries for the same jobs Southern Cameroonians do to settle our land, take the last remaining low paying jobs that were reserved for our people and crowd our schools with their breed. All of this is done in order to maintain a brutal colonial occupation in our country in the 21st century. We have rejected it and will continue to reject and resist it vehemently until the last of them is gone.

This social engineering and dehumanization in the Southern Cameroons has been our fate since 1961 when the UN and Britain imposed the brutality of an alien, uneducated and forsaken people on us. Since then we have lost thousands of our people to gendarmes and police brutality, millions have escaped to foreign countries and those who have not been able to escape the nightmare have continued to endure extortions and robbery on our poorly maintained highways, extra judicial killings, and continuous pressure to change from an English speaking population to a French speaking people in their own country.

The situation in the Southern Cameroons amounts to genocide, as defined by the United Nations' Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. It demands international involvement to end it. The Federal Republic of Nigeria has been ordered to table at the UN General Assembly, according to a judgment of The Abuja High Court (FHC/ABJ/CS/30/2002), the issue of the illegal occupation of the Southern Cameroons by La Republique du Cameroun). This must happen now before more serious catastrophes are visited on our peoples by colonizers who have shown that they have the will and way to wipe out entire populations without remorse.

The Nigerian Governments' attempts to work with the French planted government of La Republique du Cameroun, rather than obey the ruling of her Federal High Court, is futile. La Republique du Cameroun cannot be a trusted partner in providing any type of solution to the problems in our country and region. The Africans manning that government, even if they wanted to, cannot contribute to bring lasting peace and prosperity to our part of the world. The French, from whom they owe their right to govern and from whom they take their instructions to act, will not let them do any more than they are instructed to do. Even if they were left alone to act, they still will fall short of what it takes to be a contributing partner for what is needed to bring liberty and justice to our peoples. They lack the heritage: educational, cultural and otherwise to contribute in any meaningful way to our peace and stability.

As the Nigerian government and the Nigerian press have been seeking after the truth and taking the time to consider and deal with all the complexities of legitimate claims that need to be addressed in our region, the government of La Republique du Cameroun and her terrified "press" are totally absent minded about the realities on the ground, preferring instead to distract everyone with claims of "fertile imaginations," and "doubtful motives." These are the games they are specialized in, as their allegiance is to an enemy who thrives in chaos and illegitimate institutions. What is happening to Southern Cameroonians, their friends, relatives, neighbors and guests is real. It is this hash reality that has forced an honest man like Mr. Emmanuel Tataw, who writes for the Camerounese governments' daily mouthpiece, Cameroun Tribune, to lower his own personal misery index by working for an enterprise that peddles lies and cruelty as its commodity to our world.

Mr. Emmanuel Tataw, in the obscurity of the dark world of those he serves, finds it necessary to lay blame for the atrocities of the Camerounese government on the Nigerian press. The crimes of the Nigerian press being the reporting of the truth through documented stories of the victims. "The government refutes allegations of expulsion of Nigerian residents in Cameroon," Mr. Tataw reports, editorializing that the reports were "vehicled by some media outfits in Nigeria recently, it is evident that the stories are unfounded and based on extracts of the fertile imagination of rumour peddlers with doubtful motives."

Mr. Tataw displays his command of the English language, a la Pravda, but the views are conceived in French, a foreign language debased by the thought process and actions of those who speak it. To them the facts of the story do not matter, even if they are the same as reported by the press in Nigeria, as long as their imagination does not sit well with it and the last word does not come from them. Mr. Tataw reports that, "In the [Camerounese] government Press Release, it is observed that the departure of Nigerian citizens has to do with decisions of Consular authorities of Nigeria in Cameroon." This fact is not different from Mr. George Onah's report, in The Vanguard newspaper (November 19, 2005), written from Calabar, Nigeria, where some of the victims from Cameroun arrived. Mr. Onah quotes one of the victims, Mr. Dere Anthony, as saying, "our maltreatment had been reaching our Consul-General (CG) there in Cameroon. The current Consul General there is Harry Briscoe. He is from River State. One is in Duala and another Buea. For some of us, we were lucky because they did not come into our homes to push us as it happened in other places. But action speaks louder than words. Their harassment, beating, intimidation and cheating had become very unbearable. So, we told the CG who organized our leaving. The torture was too much." This report shows no "fertile imagination" at work anywhere except in the minds of French agents ruling Cameroun and following orders to prepare Southern Cameroons for what is coming next. No body is being fooled here by what is going on, which explains why the Camerounese establishment is already guilty and defensive of crimes committed even before they are accused. As This Day (Lagos), writes in its editorial page of November 29, 2005. “In this 21st century, it must be a rare place indeed where death is what illegal immigrants get as was the case of Gokana Friday from River State who was shot dead for non-possession of a resident permit.”

There is a drama that is unfolding between La Republique du Cameroun on our eastern border and The Federal Republic of Nigeria on our western and northern borders. In this drama the Southern Cameroons remains the focal point. The Nigeria government, distant from the mindset and upbringing of those she is forced to deal with in the colonial state of La Republique du Cameroun, must seek a better understanding of their negotiating "partners" from Southern Cameroonians. We are uniquely qualified to inform on these “Frenchmen,” having seen both sides of them and understand their "soul." They are not from the same mold as Nigerians and Southern Cameroonians and must not be fed with the same spoon. They are a people who have been handicapped by their French cultural heritage and education, leaving them with inabilities that must be carefully understood and managed before engaging them in any endeavors where worthwhile outcomes are expected. If this advice is not heeded, this drama is going to end in a tragedy for everyone involved. This will be the case because we, in the Southern Cameroons, are not going to continue under this brutal colonial bondage. We are going to free ourselves one way or another and would rather all die doing it than fail ourselves and our God who very evidently intended a better life for us.

We, as Africans, looking at our standing in the world and the deprivations that our populations are forced to continue to endure in the midst of plenty and in the 21st century, must all agree that we have not reached the final status yet in our continent, our different countries and across our different borders to then go to our different corners and expect the best. Just as we all fought against apartheid and defeated it in South Africa, we must all fight against other evil subsystems that are eating into the fabric of our continent and sapping away the substance of our wealth, our people and our humanity. We in the Southern Cameroons cannot take it anymore. The Nigerian government knows the way forward and must now gather the courage to pursue it, not only as a matter of law but also as a regional leader who must do what is right for herself, the peoples of our region and serve the cause of liberty and justice which are the true guarantors of peace and stability for all. Without the courage to take on the enemies of our liberty we will unjustly remain at the tail end of human achievement on earth, doing disservice to our selves and the God who intended a better life for us all.

Augustine Ambe,
Secretary for Media and Communication,
Southern Cameroons Interim Government.

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Françafrique: A Summit of Jokers in Bamako

December 2, 2005.

This weekend in Bamako, Mali, Jacques Rene Chirac, the man who in the French city of Orleans in 1991 complained loudly about the "stench" and "noise" of Africans in the French suburbs, the man who will later on in Abidjan postulate that Africans are not mature enough for democracy and should only worry about feeding themselves and getting access to medication, the genius who last year in Dakar spoke proudly of his perfect understanding of the soul and mentality of West Africans, will be presiding over the so called France-Africa summit far away from the hostilty of African descendants in his backyard.

Tagging along will probably be the "leaders" of some of the most hopeless, impoverished and repressed people of the world. The African leaders of Françafrique: Gabon's Omar Bongo Ondimba, 38 years in power and recently elected to 7 more; La Republique du Cameroun's Dr. Paul Biya, 23 years in power and counting; Burkina Faso's Blaise Campoare, 18 years in power and counting: Chad's Idriss Deby, 13 years in power and counting; Congo-Brazaville's Sassou Nguesso, on and off power for over 15 years, and counting.

Boy, will it be fun times in Bamako. The ultimate chief, Jacques Rene Chirac and his negroid petainiste sub-chiefs flown in from their jungle palaces surrounded by poverty, misery, disease and death; rambling in the language of death - French - while sipping the finest French champagnes and cheeses flown in from the metropolitan centre of the French universe, Paris. One thing we are sure they won't discuss will be the UNDP Development Indices that shows their countries at the bottom in virtually all categories: infant mortality rates, life-expectancy, access to clean water, political freedoms etc. etc. Indices that in one such summit (The Francophonie summit) of Gaullist emanate, the then simply named Omar Bongo had proposed that they scrap and replace it with one of a francophonic slant.

It will be fun times in Bamako this weekend, and a little anti-summit, as reported below by LIBERATION will certainly go unnoticed by Son Excellence, Monsieur Chirac and his boys.Image_t6_51615

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Brutality of Camerounian Gendarmes

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This Day (Lagos)
EDITORIAL


Once more, the Camerounian authorities are dehumanising Nigerians in the name of deportation. Though every country has the right to implement its immigration laws, the brutalisation of immigrants to be deported is certainly not part of that right.

What makes the latest Camerounian outrage all the more worrisome, apart from the dispute over the Bakassi peninsular, is the socio-linguistic colouration it has assumed. The fight for emancipation by Southern Camerounians who are largely English-speaking, like Nigerians, has pitched them against the more formidable French-speaking part. The former have raised alarm at various fora over purported cases of torture and other forms of barbarism unleashed on them by their ruling French compatriots. Now that Nigerians who live in Cameroun have been caught in this hostile internal clash, apathy on the part of the Nigerian government to their plight would mean an invitation to the continued harassment and humiliation of our countrymen.

The Camerounian gendarmes and police who carry out these despicable acts often claim that the victims are those who do not possess the permits required for residence in Nigeria's eastern neighbour. However, the tales of most of the returnees point to a contrary position. Their narrations paint the picture of an offensive akin to a full-blown war, a situation in which Nigerians are severely beaten and treated like slaves. It is said that when demand is made for their immigration documents and they are produced, money would be extorted from the helpless Nigerians all the same. Failure to pay ends in the sort of brutalisation that is often fatal.

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"15th Century African Slaves Bound for the West Indies"

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The Franco-Camerounese armed forces and their Southern Cameroonian captives.

Photo source: Post Watch Magazine

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SCNC Youth League Creates Radio Station

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NEWS
October 30, 2005
Posted to the web October 31, 2005

By Peterkins Manyong


An announcement that a radio station has been created to broadcast Pro-Southern Cameroons information has created panic within the Administration of the Northwest.A press release issued by Peter Tieh Ndeh, Secretary General in the Northwest Governor's office over the weekend, warns the population of the Province and calls for vigilance in the event of a broadcast promised in a press release issued by the Southern Cameroons National Council Youth League that has allegedly set up the clandestine radio.

The release, a copy of which The Post procured, states: "There comes a time in the history of an oppressed people, when they have to stand up and speak out. For close to half a century that right has been denied us. We can no longer afford to remain silent".

It proceeds to announce that on Sunday, October 30, from 7pm to 8 pm, Southern Cameroonians and the rest of the world, are invited to tune in to "Radio Free Southern Cameroons, RFSC", broadcasting from the Southern Cameroons capital of Buea, on the 25 meter band short wave.

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Despite Tight Security, Flags Hoisted

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By Chris Mbunwe, Peterkins Manyong & Jeff Ngawe Yufenyu


Despite the deployment of security forces in major towns of the Northwest and Southwest Provinces, Southern Cameroons National Council, SCNC, activists succeeded in hoisting Southern Cameroons' flags in Bamenda and Kumba on Saturday, October 1.

In Bamenda, activists outsmarted gun-toting policemen, held a rally and hoisted the Southern Cameroons flag.

The first flag is reported to have been hoisted at Mile 8, Mankon, at midnight, September 30 breaking October 1. The others were hoisted at Musang CBC neighbourhood, and Alakuma, Chomba, Nchubo quarters. Then, at 3:30 pm on October 1, another flag was hoisted at the Bamenda Food Market, watched by an impressive crowd.

The hoisting of a SCNC flag at the New Food Market attracted a large crowd. Security forces pulled down the flag 15 minutes later.

In Kumba, electricity supply was interrupted when police tried to pull down a flag hoisted by unidentified persons on a high-tension cable near TEXACO, in Fiango.

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In Response to The Yang Gang

by the US-Southern Cameroons Foundation
(Culled from The Post Online)

Having completed its Kontchou-like mission of lies, spin, distortion, intimidation and disinformation to the Southern Cameroons, the Yang Gang has returned to its puppeteer in Yaounde. The mission was a complete failure for the Franco-Camerounese occupier because it only succeeded in raising the anger and national consciousness of the Southern Cameroonian population. The entire performance was classical Camerounese: a complete disregard for established historical facts and truths, that could easily be verified by any secondary school student. In characteristic fashion they disrespected the intelligence of the Southern Cameroonian population by regurgitating the same stale, meaningless propaganda soup cooked by Amadou Ahidjo over four decades ago. They failed to address the legitimate issues of occupation, colonization, assimilation and ruthless exploitation of the Southern Cameroons and instead issued naked threats of genocide, telegraphed from their masters in Yaounde and Paris. We rise to address the inventions and myths the Gang raised and to remind Southern Cameroons people of the facts the Yang Gang are attempting to distort:

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Desperation in the Southern Cameroons

RESEARCH BUREAU

It comes as no surprise in normal and natural societies that the people are governed by those they’ve elected. The elected governors at all levels of the society are men and women who more or less have lived amongst those they’ve been elevated by local suffrage to guide their collective destiny as a community or people; and are naturally accountable and answerable to them. They speak in similar manner, speak the same language, and share the same values, hopes and anxieties. In the elected governor, the sanctity of the person and home of the governed is safeguarded. They are a people, one people; just as in the rallying cry of the University of Buea students, “One for all, all for one.”

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Bakassi Arising

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling on Bakassi has presented a window of opportunity for the people of the Southern Cameroons in particular, and the region in general, to address in the interest of justice, the decolonization question of the Former United Nations Trust Territory of the Southern Cameroons under United Kingdom Administration. The aborted decolonization of this former UN Trust Territory in 1961 and its subsequent annexation by France masquerading as La République du Cameroun is a threat to peace and security in the region.

We use events in Bakassi in the last weeks of June 2005 (the alleged killing of a Camerounese soldier by Nigerian forces in the Bakassi Peninsula) to address the larger issues surrounding any long term prospects of a just peace in this area of the Gulf of Guinea.

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The Champion newspaper of Nigeria

The Champion newspaper of Nigeria interview with Stephen Joseph, Moderator of the IG’s Southern Cameroons People Forum. The interview was published in February of 2005.

Question 1:
Who are the Southern Cameroons people? What do they stand for exactly, what do they want from the Cameroonian government?


Stephen Joseph:
The people of Southern Cameroons are the people who the British carved out of the lost German colonial possession of Kamerun in Central Africa after the First World War. They became incorporated into Nigeria as an expansion of that British colony from 1915 to 1919. In 1919 they were placed under the League of Nations Mandate System after Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States, insisted that all ex German territories be placed under a mandate system of the League of Nations. Britain returned the territory to the League of Nations but remained the Administering authority and continued to administer the territory from Nigeria as if it were a part of Nigeria.

The continued administration of Southern Cameroons from Nigeria by the British was unfortunate because the territory and its people neither benefited from colonial investments as a British colony nor benefited as a League of Nations Mandate, with rights.

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