QUESTIONS FOR TCHIROMA,
LA REPUBLIQUE DU CAMEROUN (LRC) MINISTER OF COMMUNICATION, AND LRC ITSELF
1. What makes you think that Ambazonians should not rule themselves within their own internationally defined territory?
2. If LRC claims the right to govern itself within its
own territory, why should Ambazonians not govern themselves within their
own territory?
3. Is there anyone or any people, including LRC, who can
claim a greater right to the territory and resources of the Southern
Cameroons than the people of the Southern Cameroons themselves?
4. African tribes and human beings all over the world
have often gone to war to defend their territory. Why do you think
Ambazonians should not defend their own? Are Ambazonians right to defend
their territory against the imperialism of LRC? Or is LRC right to
claim the territory of Ambazonia?
5. You allege that Ambazonia is a part of La Republique
du Cameroun. Do you have any treaty of Union or any instrument of Union
between Ambazonia and La Republique du Cameroun (LRC)? Can you show the
world that instrument?
6. Ambazonians are not contesting the territory of LRC, why is LRC contesting the territory of Ambazonia?
7. Cameroun quotes the fact that the Southern Cameroons
(Ambazonia) and LRC were formerly parts of one German Kamerun. Yes, that
is right. Who gave LRC the purported right to inherit the former
territories of German Kamerun? Under what law is LRC pretending to do
that? There are currently parts of German Kamerun in Nigeria, in Chad,
in Central African Republic. Why is LRC not claiming those parts? France
and Britain were parts of one Roman Empire. Should Britain claim the
territory of France or France claim the territory of Britain on that
account? Should Rwanda claim Burundi because they were formerly one
country? Is Cameroun’s argument not a betrayal of its imperialism? Who
said that territories that formerly belonged to one country or imperial
power cannot become separate countries? The Soviet Union has become
several countries; so has former Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Sudan, etc.
How can LRC justify its colonial ambitions?
8. Cameroun has often also quoted the UN-organised
plebiscite of 1961 as the alleged source of the purported union. Was
Cameroon a party to the Plebiscite? How could a response made to a
question posed by the UN to the people of the Southern Cameroons become
some kind of contract with LRC? Was the Plebiscite an act by which the
territory of the Southern Cameroons and its people were surrendered to
LRC or made a free gift to it? Was the Plebiscite not about Southern
Cameroons’ independence and only secondarily joining with LRC? How is it
that Cameroun is interpreting the Plebiscite as the act by which it got
possession of the Southern Cameroons or by which a free gift was made
of the people of the Southern Cameroons and their territory to Cameroun?
9. If the plebiscite was about Southern Cameroons
independence, which the UN actually followed up and voted overwhelmingly
to grant in Res. 1608(XV), where is the independence today?
10. Even, grant the Plebiscite (which we do not), should
the territory of the Southern Cameroons become that of LRC? Is Cameroun
not using the Plebiscite only as a ploy to colonise and annex the
Southern Cameroons? When did the people of the Southern Cameroons cede
their territory and life to LRC?
11. You claim the existence of a union between Ambazonia
and LRC, where are the instruments of union? What are the terms of your
alleged union? Do you admit that only the relation between a master and
slave has no terms?
12. Cameroun in one breath claims there was a union;
then in another claims that Ambazonians have no right to speak of their
own state which purportedly joined LRC; it denies the people of
Ambazonia the right to question the fate of their own state in the
pretended Union; it takes all steps to delete from the memory of the
people of Ambazonia everything about their own state and history; it
imposes its own language on the people of Ambazonia; it refuses to
accept English as the official language in Ambazonia; it jails all
Ambazonians who question the jurisdiction of LRC within Ambazonia. Do
all these evils not continually prove beyond all doubts that LRC now
treats Ambazonia and its people as a colony? That it has annexed and
subjugated Ambazonia?
13. If LRC alleges a union, why does it refuse the
people of Ambazonia from speaking as the other party to the Union you
claim to exist? Should Ambazonians not be able to speak as the other
party to the alleged union? Can you allege a union and at the same time
claim that only LRC has the right to decide everything and to own
everything in the so-called union?
14. What will you call an alleged union in which the
other party is denied the right to speak, to assemble, to withdraw, to
question anything about the union; in which there are no terms and no
treaty of union; in which one of the parties has no rights; in which one
party confiscates the territory of the other and has the right of life
and death over the other? How is such a so-called union different from
imperialism, colonisation and annexation?
15. Can you cite one single article of the AU
Constitutive Act or the UN Charter which gives LRC jurisdiction over
Ambazonian territory?
16. The principle is firmly established in international
law that the boundaries of every state are confined to the boundaries
it inherited on its day of independence (Art. 4(b) of the African Union
Constitutive Act). Should this principle apply to the boundaries of LRC?
17. There is an international boundary that separates
the territory of Ambazonia from the territory of LRC. That boundary was
established between France, whose territory LRC inherited and Britain,
whose territory the Southern Cameroons inherited. France never contested
the boundary, why should LRC contest it? Is there any other treaty that
has changed that boundary?
18. LRC has been speaking without citing a single
principle of international law which gives it jurisdiction over the
Southern Cameroons territory. Ambazonians base all their arguments on
the principles of international law, especially the AU Constitutive Act,
the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights and the UN Charter.
Why has Cameroun been unable, even once, to cite one single principle to
substantiate its claims?
19. Is Cameroun willing to accept dialogue based on
international law or under international auspices? Or is Cameroun so
terrified of the truth that it wants to continue to live through the gun
and propaganda alone? Is this not armed robbery?
20. Your former President, Ahidjo, repeatedly vowed to
the UN that Cameroun was not annexationist and would not use its size to
annex the Southern Cameroons. Why has Cameroun annexed the Southern
Cameroons? If you deny annexation, how then has a state which had its
own Prime Minister, Civil Service, state institutions, suddenly ceased
to exist?
21. Are you aware that Res. 1608(XV) of 21 April 1961
whose implementation would have led to a valid legal union between the
Southern Cameroons and LRC was never implemented?
22. Are you aware that LRC voted against union with the Southern Cameroons in Res. 1608(XV) of 21 April 1961?
23. Are you aware that according to Article 102(1) of
the UN Charter any alleged union between a member of the UN and another
territory or any alleged treaty whatsoever that is not reduced into
writing and filed at the UN Secretariat is null and void?
24. Don’t you realize that the methods LRC is using
today against Ambazonians: those of violence, killings, abductions,
terror, rape, intimidation, torture, burning of homes and mass killings
have failed very where, including even in Nazi Germany? What makes you
think that they will succeed because Cameroun is using them when they
have never succeeded anywhere?
25. We have heard so much from the Cameroun government
telling the world that only a small fraction of Ambazonians want
independence; that the majority want to stay with Cameroun. What makes
Cameroun believe that it has the right to speak for Ambazonians? Is
Cameroun willing to accept a referendum organized and supervised by the
United Nations to determine what the people of Ambazonia want? Is the
fact that Cameroun is purporting to speak for Ambazonians more proof of
its subjugation of the people of AMBAZONIA?
By Atemnkeng
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