Southern Cameroons Interim Government

African Union Border Programme Statement

The International Community, and the People of the Southern Cameroons in particular, are informed that the Southern Cameroons Restoration Government (in exile) has served Notice to the African Union Border Programme, its Director, Partners, Academics, Facilitators and all stakeholders.

The Notice calls the AU Border Programme’s attention to the fact that there is an international boundary between the former UN trust territory of French Cameroon that attained independence on 1 January, 1960 as la République du Cameroun, and the former UN trust territory of Southern Cameroons, presently under colonial occupation by la République du Cameroun.

The Notice in question was served on 12 February 2009 (reference African Union Registry: No. 533 of 12 February 2009), and copies sent to the United Nations, the Peace and Security Council of the AU, the Conflict Management Department of the AU, as well as to Embassies of African countries accredited to the AU in Addis Ababa.

Southern Cameroons Gov't Announcement

Fellow Compatriots,

The African Union (AU) just concluded its 12th Ordinary Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on 4 February 2009. Although most of our people were unaware of what was going on behind the scenes, this was no ordinary Summit for the people of the Southern Cameroons.

La République du Cameroun, in yet another futile political manoeuvre against the inexorable restoration of the sovereign statehood of the Southern Cameroons, had proposed a calculated agenda item on what it falsely called the “Peaceful settlement of the Bakassi conflict” to be discussed by the organs of the Union. In the proposal, la République du Cameroun invited African leaders to do a number of things, which if done, would have seriously undermined the work of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (an organ of the AU) before which is a complaint from the people of the Southern Cameroons on the violation of their eastern frontier by la République du Cameroun.

La République du Cameroun’s proposals were also framed in such a way as to make it appear as though the African Union was endorsing that country’s annexation and continuing armed colonial occupation of the Southern Cameroons.

What la République du Cameroun was asking the AU to do in effect was for the AU to undercut the work of its own organ.

Thanks to the vigilance of the Southern Cameroons Restoration Government (RG), the Southern Cameroons People’s Organization (SCAPO) and the Southern Cameroons National Council (SCNC), and thanks to the guidance of Divine Providence, and the wisdom of African leaders, this misconceived and duplicitous agenda item never managed to get into the final agenda for the Summit.

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African Union Rejects La Republique du Cameroun's Bakassi Charade

Southern Cameroons National Council (SCNC) Press Statement

The futile efforts of expansionist la Republique du Cameroun to use a neo-imperial mask and conceal the truth on the ground boomeranged in the face of the Yaounde dictatorship in Addis Ababa as the African Union Summit opened yesterday February 1, 2009.

Its sponsored Agenda Item, "Peaceful Conflict Resolution in Africa: Model of the Bakassi Crisis." (EX CL/495 (XIV) Add6) was rejected and deleted from the Agenda for the AU Summit. Without doubt, this came to the junta as a shocking defeat. We salute the courage and vision of the New Age of the AU.

As stated in the SCNC Press Release of August 16, 2006, Yaounde in dancing lame before the main dance, is using its so called "victory" over Nigeria on the Bakassi conflict to divert both national and international attention from the real problem on the ground, namely, her annexation and colonial occupation of British Southern Cameroons. The Bakassi conflict created and magnified by Yaounde was a mere diversion to garner support against its so-called external enemy, namely, Nigeria.

Amnesty International Exposes the Camerounese Junta

Amnesty International today released a report on the alarming human rights situation in Cameroon , accusing the government of gross violations spanning more than ten years - including killings and torture.

Full report: http://www.amnesty.org.uk/uploads/documents/doc_19130.pdf

Many of the violations detailed in today’s report include heavy-handed tactics to clamp down on any political opposition of the Cameroonian government.

Amnesty International’ s Africa Deputy Programme Director, Tawanda Hondora, said:

‘Political opposition is not tolerated in Cameroon.

Unfair trials, intimidation and harassment, including death threats, are routinely used by the authorities to quash criticism from politicians, human rights defenders and journalists.’

Amnesty International said that Cameroonian security forces habitually use excessive and unnecessary force - and the perpetrators regularly go unpunished.

In late February 2008, security forces killed as many as 100 people during demonstrations against the escalating cost of living. Amnesty International has seen photographs and received testimonies suggesting that some of the victims were shot at point blank range, with no effort made to arrest them instead.

Journalists covering these protests were assaulted by members of the security forces. The victims included a cameraman from Canal 2 International television, who was beaten and arrested and had his camera destroyed. He was only freed after soldiers forced him to pay them.

Tawanda Hondora continued:

‘The silencing of the media is particularly worrying. If a journalist is deemed too critical of the government they are silenced — and radio and TV stations are shut down.’

Journalist Michel Mombio was arrested in September 2008 and spent 10 days in custody. He was then transferred to the central prison in the capital, Yaoundé, and charged with fraud and blackmail. He was still in custody without trial in January 2009.

The report also details dreadful prison conditions, which are characterised by inadequate food and medical care as well as overcrowding. All too often minors are held together with adults and there is inadequate separation of males from females, which has led to sexual and other forms of violence and exploitation.

Prisons are reportedly infested with rats and cockroaches and some inmates have resorted to sleeping in the toilets for lack of another place to rest.

HoG State of the Struggle Address

 January 8, 2009

My fellow Citizens of the Southern Cameroons:

As we speak to you the colonizer is tightening his asphyxiating grip around our neck. He wants to choke the life out of our collective existence as a people. Today, therefore, more than ever before the time has come for more action than words. Nevertheless, as a responsible government we propose to give an account of our one-year stewardship and our perspective on the enormous challenge of national liberation in the course of this year.

In all great endeavors the breakthrough that produces success always inevitably comes from the least expected source. This is true in the field of scientific achievements, political milestones, and military conquests. It is true with the unexpected circumstances that forced European colonizers to relinquish their hold on Africa in the 1960s. It is true with the unexpected circumstances that led to the election of Barack Obama as President of the USA.

It is under similar unexpected circumstances that the Restoration Government came into being. It came from the least expected source. And it drew uninformed and inflamed attacks from some quarters, in some cases by those unable to move from the personal to the principled. The task of conducting the affairs of the Government in the wider context of the national liberation struggle was thrust upon us. Despite the unusual circumstances under which the Government was created, we hit the ground running. We dared to hope that by today we would be speaking to you in completely different circumstance. The realization of that dream has regrettably been deferred to the day after.

Communique: Release Our Kidnapped Nationals in Tiko

Several British Southern Cameroonian citizens, members of the Southern Cameroons National Council (SCNC), were arrested in the Tiko on October 6th, 2008 by the colonial occupation forces of the French Cameroun Republic. Their crime? Meeting as free men and women in a private residence.

The British Southern Cameroons government considers this arrest and detention as a criminal kidnapping, and one more in a historical pattern of state-sponsored acts of terror by the occupying French Cameroun Republic in a desperate need to hold on to their increasingly tenuous presence in the Southern Cameroons territory.

We have received reports that these detainees have been beaten and tortured by the criminal and brutal French-trained gendarmes of the Camerounese occupation forces. Those arrested (ages are in brackets) are:

SCAPO Press Release on the ACHPR 41st Session

"While calling on the people of Southern Cameroons to remain focused and confident, SCAPO, reminds everyone in the Southern Cameroons that thier right to self-determination was fully recognized in the United Nations Charter; that the international boundaries of the Southern Cameroons' territory are guaranteed and secured by international law; that the African Union recognizes no other boundaries to African states than the boundaries they had on their attainment of independence; that there is no treaty by which the territory of the Southern Cameroons has been ceded to la Republique du Cameroun and therefore that territory remains fully vested in the people of Southern Cameroons who shall triumph in the restoration of their statehood and sovereignty."

Southern Cameroons Interim Government Salutes Rwanda

November 27, 2006

No people on earth, other than maybe the current Rwandese government are better qualified than the people of the Southern Cameroons to comment on the evil nature of the French government in Africa. The people of the Southern Cameroons, like those in the current Rwandese government are not historically products and part of the French Cartesian thought process that drives France and its many African surrogates.

The current Rwandese regime, made up of men and women not cultivated in the morbid salons of the françafrique's culture of shameless political corruption and tyranny share with the people of the Southern Cameroons the misfortune of having an Anglo-Saxon worldview, heritage and sensibilities and are hence an existential menace to France and its culture.

These anglosaxon sensibilities and its perceived menace to the French culture inspired the French to destroy the government and people of the Southern Cameroons and continues to maintain it under her brutal colonial occupation masquerading as the Vichy-esque junta in la République du Cameroun ("The Foumban Conference, safe for appearances, was a sham that was basically the annexation of the Southern Cameroons." Former French Prime Minister Pierre Mesmer in his Memoirs, Les Blanc S'en Vont).

The anglosaxon menace allows the French state to mastermind, train and is still protecting their Rwandese allies who murdered one million French or potential French-speakers in Rwanda. This, more than anything shows the deep-seated level of a pathological French mental illness in Africa. The Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) with its sympathizers in English-speaking African countries like Uganda and Tanzania was such a danger to the French culture that a million people who may have otherwise become identified with the French culture were slaughtered ... to protect presumably the French culture! This evil and irrational mad rage of France has continued unabated against the current Rwandese government whose elements put a stop to the French-orchestrated genocide. The French are still smarting from that act of African humanity.

We of the Southern Cameroons Interim Government (SCIG) are well aware that France's racist war against Black and African progress is all encompassing as the current legal authorities in Côte d'Ivoire will testify as they struggle against a French-sponsored rebellion. Any African people who dare question France's and their African surrogates continuous implementation of the culture of predation and death that Europe unleashed on the continent about 500 years ago, and that France insists on perpetuating in various guises including the instrumentalisation of tribalism and genocide, becomes a target of La Grande Nation - France. France's surrogates and allies in Chad and the Central African Republic will therefore be assured of France's total support against their won rebellions just as French-sponsored rebels on the Côte d'Ivoire.

The Southern Cameroons Interim Government heartily congratulates the actions of President Paul Kagame of Rwanda and his government for kicking out the unrepentant trainers, advisers and purveyors of military hardware and diplomatic protectors of the Rwandese genocidaires - La Grande France.

The Southern Cameroons Interim Government hopes this is the beginning of an unending revolt and punishment that Africa should collectively mete out to this arrogant, sick and unrepentant bully until they seek penance for their various Crimes Against Humanity in Africa over the centuries.

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Media & Communication Department
Southern Cameroons Interim Government

IG PRESS RELEASE: On the Accord between La République du Cameroun and Nigeria ending Bakassi Border Dispute

The agreement concluded in New York yesterday June 12, 2006 under the auspices of Kofi Annan is just another of a series of agreements reached by the democratically elected government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and a French planted junta in the French colony of La République du Cameroun. The reasons why the previous agreements between these odd couples have failed have not changed. We are confident that the government of Nigeria will continue to allow the rights of the people of Bakassi and the Southern Cameroons to guide her actions.

We understand the pressure, which France, using regional and international organizations, has been putting on the government of Nigeria to hand over Bakassi to her colonial control. But we will like to remind Nigeria that she will be acting contrary to her interest, the interest of the people of Bakassi, the interest of the people of the Southern Cameroons and the interest of the people of Africa if she chooses to obey foreign laws imposed by French imperialism over the laws of her own courts.

The peoples of the Southern Cameroons and their representatives, using the instruments of international law obtained a Judgment in Suit No.: FHC/ABJ/CS/30/2002 in the Federal High Court of Nigeria, Holden in Abuja in 2002.

The demand of the people of the Southern Cameroons, of which Bakassi is part and parcel of, was to have the Nigerian High Court rule on the following:

1. A DECLARATION that under Articles 1 and 20 (1) (2) and (3) of the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (Ratification and Enforcement) Act, Cap 10, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 1990 the Federal Republic of Nigeria has a legal duty to place before the International Court of Justice and the United Nations General Assembly and ensure diligent prosecution to conclusion the claim of the peoples of Southern Cameroons to self-determination and their declaration of independence.

2. AN ORDER compelling the Government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to place before the International Court of Justice and the United Nations General Assembly, and ensure diligent prosecution to conclusion the claim of the peoples of Southern Cameroons to self-determination and their declaration of independence.

3. A PERPETUAL INJUNCTION restraining the Government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria whether by herself, her servants, agents and or representatives or otherwise howsoever from treating or continuing to treat or regard the Southern Cameroons [including Bakassi] and the peoples of the territory as an integral part of la Republique du Cameroun (Republic of Cameroun).

DEMONSTRATION AT No. 10 DOWNING STREET: 11 February, 2006

The Southern Cameroons Youth League (SCYL) and the Southern Cameroons National Council (SCNC) in partnership with the Southern Cameroons Interim Government-In-Exile, invites all Southern Cameroonians and friends of the Southern Cameroons to a demonstration on the 11th of February at No. 10 Downing Street in London.

This demonstration is to highlight the role of Britain in the continuous brutal colonization of the Southern Cameroons by France, masquerading as la République du Cameroun.

Contact:
SCYL International Secretariat:
Tel: 00492344140660 / 00491756759322