Southern Cameroons Interim Government

Genocide widows in anti-France demo

By GASHEEGU MURAMILA
Tuesday, 28 November 2006


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.

Post News Magazine: Southern Cameroons Thunderbolt

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

"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?"

Witness Pins Down France On Genocide

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.

France accused on Rwanda killings

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'

France: Une Histoire des Génocides en Afrique

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.

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.

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.

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."