The government cannot win with war and
massacre and soon, I will be changing my song from dialogue to
referendum, you wanna know why,
Read this inspiring piece reflecting on Tchiroma interview yesterday, must read
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I still believe that the referendum must happen because there is no other way the UN will resolve the issue.
With the growing refugee crisis and
continuous attacks , destruction of homes and lives , a severe
humanitarian crisis is in the making and self interest of nations will
crystallize soon when their investments are obviously at risk now.
Political instability is the worst nightmare of foreign investors no
matter who. So, they are already becoming uncomfortable because they
thought Biya would resolve or contain the crisis.
That means they will soon have to succumb to
the people and not to the regime. That is why I suggested that the
people should not be silent over the burning down of their homes and the
carnage.
Biya cannot survive this thing in the long
term and the same international bodies are only interested in their long
term interests in that region with geopolitical implications
They want stability and right now there is no
stability ,which means this war can drag on for a while since neither
Biya nor the ambazonian fighters are giving up. Someone has to stop
attacking the other but the Biya's regime are to blame for killing,
arresting and locking up anglophones since December 2016 simply because
of a peotest against marginalization.
There is no guarantee that both sides might
be armed by the international bodies but based on the power of
negotiation, diplomacy and perhaps fate, I think anglophones will
prevail. Truth is key to all these. I cannot understand a regime can
hate a people whom you want to have a continuous union with ?
They will fail because of the historical
context of referendum which Biya's minister of miscommunication alluded
to and misspoke to begin with during an interview yesterday.
He said that the UN conducted a referendum in
1961 which resulted into the present attachement/ union. As
shortsighted as he is, he failed to state that there was another
referendum in 1972 that was not sanctioned by the UN. That is the one
,which i am contesting because why did LRC conduct another referendum in
1972 undermining the authority and jurisdiction of the UN under
international law?
So, if they see him and his government as a
problem and not a solution, they will abandon him. The basis of this is
the unity of anglophones and respect for due process . That is why I
stand for referendum because the situation requires three possible
solutions .
1. Either UN simply declares that the 20th
May 1972 referendum orchestrated by LRC was illegal and then reinstate
the former two states federation neccessitated by UN resolution 1608(5)
of April 21st 1961 or
2. The UN simply bows to our request for
another referendum to give everyone the opportunity to vote on YES or
NO. That means all anglophones no matter where you stand will vote and
afterwards we will comply with the outcome. To me referendum is the
platform of dialogue moving forward because it is an international
recognized instrument for peaceful resolution of such political crisis .
Besides , we are not foreign to the idea based on history.
3. The next question is how will the referendum be conducted or how will that happen and who will authorize it ?
To be continued
Jonathan Awasom
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