UN SETS OUT AN EMERGENCY RESPONSE AGENDA FOR AMBAZONIA by Mbiydzenyuy Dave WANTANGWA

UN FINALLY DECLARES AND SETS OUT A RAPID HUMANITARIAN EMERGENCY RESPONSE AGENDA FOR AMBAZONIA

by Mbiydzenyuy Dave WANTANGWA

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has finally declared an emergency on the NW and SW zones of Ambazonia. According to the Service (UNOCHA), “The crisis in the South-West and North-West Regions of Cameroon has compounded pre-existing vulnerabilities. Since 2016, political and social instability, exacerbated by sporadic violence, has had a negative impact on the civilian population of Cameroon’s South-West and North-West Regions, hosting four million inhabitants (16% of the total population). In November 2017, the socio-political crisis progressively translated into insecurity and armed violence. Since then, the escalation of tension and upsurge in hostilities between non-state armed groups and defence and security forces have triggered humanitarian needs across the two regions, linked to significant internal displacement. In recent months, the epicentre of the crisis moved from Bamenda (North-West) to Mamfe and Kumba (South-West). All divisions in the South-West region, host to more than 1.4 million inhabitants, are affected by the crisis. The number of households forced to flee their villages - or the country - in search of safer areas has rapidly and steadily increased since November 2017. Recent needs assessments report that at least 160,000 people have been internally displaced in the two affected regions and would need humanitarian and protection assistance over the next three months. In addition, more than 21,000 Cameroonians have been registered as refugees in Cross River, Benue and Akwa Ibom States in Nigeria”.

         According to the assessment report, the crisis has affected 160.000 people without counting those who found refuge in Nigeria, and the UN further places as target, these 160.000 IDPs spread across the following areas, namely:  

“135,000 are located in Meme Division and 15,000 in Manyu Division. The remaining 10,000 are displaced in the North-West Region. Simultaneously, dozens of villages in Mbongue and Konye Subdivision (Meme Division) have been emptied of their populations. The situation is similar in the North- West, especially in Boyo Division. Many villages have suffered significant material damage in Mbongue and Konye Subdivision (Meme Division), and in Eyumodjok and Akwaya Subdivision (Manyu Division). “

         Needless to mention that the intransigence of the LRC government in genuinely resolving the crisis amidst a series of elections this year, gives reason to predict that the situation will continue to escalate in the coming months. Of the 160.000 people, the various divisions have been estimated to have the following figures: Meme – 135.000, Manyu – 15.000, Boyo – 3.000, Momo – 3.000 and Ngoketunjia – 4.000.

In the absence of any dialogue or the wish to have any, the future of the crisis is foreseeably bleak. The UN again states, that  

“Clashes between non-state armed groups and defense and security forces have displaced the civilian population into the surrounding forests and villages – 80% of the displaced population have found refuge in the forest. The two regions have experienced a deterioration of living conditions - primarily affecting school-age children, women and the elderly - and a collapse of livelihoods as well as heightened abuses. The crisis and subsequent displacement have prevented people from accessing their fields and markets. For most of the affected population who relied upon agriculture or livestock as their main sources of livelihoods before the crisis, dependency on external assistance will be inevitable in the short-term”.

This rapid emergency response plan will cost the UN some 15.2 million dollars.

Source:

Emergency Response Plan: Cameroon – North West and South West, OCHA, published May 28^th, 2018.

(https://reliefweb.int/report/cameroon/emergency-response-plan-cameroon-north-west-and-south-west-may-2018)

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CAMEROON MILITARY: STOP DYING, RISE UP AND HOLD YOUR COMMANDER ACCOUNTABLE! by Mbiydzenyuy David WANTANGWA

CAMEROON MILITARY: STOP DYING, RISE UP AND HOLD YOUR COMMANDER ACCOUNTABLE! 

by Mbiydzenyuy David WANTANGWA

We have decided to take both the risk and the courage to publish another list of military and Gendarmes killed in the useless and senseless war against Ambazonia declared by the President of La Republique du Cameroun, Paul Biya. This list which had been circulated for their burial leaves us to imagine how many more will not be buried ceremoniously. It is with much grief that we have decided to make public this document to let the Cameroonians, and the whole world know, the that the atrocious decisions of the Cameroon government, and particularly of President Paul Biya, who has made himself the only person to single-handedly and highhandedly take decisions in Cameroon, are a very serious cause for concern and should be checked immediately. We expect that if the military authorities of Cameroon have any real education, they are supposed to know that the military should not be used in this 21st century, in this age as a defensive and manipulative tool to protect the egos of Dictators and power mongers who should have engaged in meaningful dialogue and solve the problems of the people through peaceful means. We should know, that this is no more the time for archaic dictatorial regimes to impose themselves upon the people over whom they have lost legitimacy. We therefore, challenge the Cameroon military experts, if any at all, to rise up from their slumber and put a definitive end to this madness. We challenge the Cameroon military to desist from dying like dogs in trying to fight a people when they know they cannot win. We challenge the military to come to a realization that it is not honour dying for a useless cause. No body gets honour by fighting against the legitimate claims of a people. No one gets honour by being a repressive tool in the hands of an insane dictator. Therefore, we challenge the Cameroon military, that presently, their fidelity is misguided and they should wake up to reality. We challenge the military to realize that they are acting according rather according to the whims and caprices of a dying dictator who has no interest in the future generations of the Cameroons. We challenge the military to realize this wanton abuse of power if they are not accomplices to it and should immediate take action to quell the calamity that is going to befall both the people and the nations of the Cameroons. We challenge the military to look at the recent examples in Burkina Faso, Zimbabwe and elsewhere, where the military have dared to distance themselves from the inordinate manipulations of politicians and free themselves and the nations of the Cameroons from continuous slavery, repression and marginalization.

It is evidently clear, that President Paul Biya has overstepped his bounds and is misusing his authority by ordering the army to exercise extreme madness and impunity on a portion of the people from whom he hopes to get electoral votes in the 2018 elections. It is evidently clear to any blind eye, that together with his bunch of accomplices, some of whom are military themselves, that this is unlimited abuse of power, and they must not go free.

And now, we must hold our leaders accountable for the misguided decisions they take which are putting the future of the nation into jeopardy.

Below, is a list of  about 67 corpses of military and Gendarmes, from La Republique Du Cameroun who are being prepared for burial.  And You remember that when they bring out this number, a great many too would be prepared for burial without official ceremonies. 

The Government of Cameroon is to be held accountable for the deaths of these military and Gendarmes in the useless and senseless war it declared on the citizens of Ambazonia. In an attempt to protect themselves, the President, the Ministers, Governors, SDOs and DOs and others endorsed this insanity, and the military should stand up and ask themselves, what is happening and is this a war worth fighting. Is this a crisis worth wasting lives for? The Cameroon military should cease being sheepish to quickly, unquestionably and unreasonably engage in this height of insanity. This is the moment when they should hold the president of the Republic and their commander accountable for his stupid decision which is resulting in the daily deaths both of the military and the civilians, which in complicity with his band of advisers and the specific Governors and other government officials have been putting the military in danger because of their intransigence to discuss with a hurting part of the country. No war has ever been fought and won against a people. The military should have seriously desisted from this senselessness. The military should be able to steer clear of participating in crimes against humanity, in genocide and in inhumanity and perform their honorable role of protection as demanded by the Constitution and International Law.

How many military were buried last time in a public ceremony? How many have been buried quietly? Do we take delight in attending burial ceremonies of our youthful military who have lost their future in one of the most stupid wars that they cannot win? Are we therefore going to allow ourselves to be deceived by their meaningless strategies, deception and useless actions?

THIS IS THE IMMEDIATE ACTION NEEDED:

It therefore becomes clear, and we need to appeal to all parents, communities, chiefs and families to seriously recall their children from this senseless and useless war. This is the second round of public burials of hundreds of military to which the Military spokesman attests, that this useless and senseless war has claimed more lives than the fight against Boko Haram. How long shall the Cameroon government and precisely, the manipulative decisions of Paul Biya continue to render uncountable families childless and without the youthful population we need for the future? Where are we going to? What is difficult for President Paul Biya to call for meaningful negotiations? He cannot protect himself to the detriment of the soldiers, he cannot use soldiers as human shield to protect himself, this is unaccepted in international law, he cannot put the lives of the military in danger for his selfish aims and power drunkenness. 

Anyone supporting this stupid war does not love Cameroon and has no good for the country. Anyone supporting this war is only doing so out of greed and selfishness. Cameroon, and Ambazonia and seriously dripping with blood, blood is flowing everywhere, the blood of the military who are not told the truth on the ground, the blood of the innocent civilians who fall victim to the impunity of the military. 

We call on all families, that have lost their children to this senselessness, either secretly or publicly to rise up and hold the government of Cameroon responsible for this chaos and sorrow they have caused them and condemn it with one voice. Do not weep and still hope in a hopeless government, which cannot protect the military.

The Cameroon Army, use your heads and stop this senselessness. How many military men and women do you expect to die before you come to your senses. At this present moment, the life of Paul Biya is not more important than the life of the least Cameroonian and we should wake up from our dreams and face the truth. We should not support the wrong doings of our leaders to the detriment of the country we want to call home.

The intransigence of the government and its band of accomplices, is fueling the extremism in the country. Their irresponsible handling of this situation must not go unchecked.

If Cameroonians and specifically, the Military, if they do not rise up like one man to denounce the atrocities being perpetrated by the President and his Administrators, then the eclipse of the future of this country is at hand.

FINAL WORD OF CAUTION TO THE MILITARY AND ADMINISTRATORS
Presently, numerous legal pursuits are being compiled against individual Governors, military caught in crimes, or responsible for the present genocide. But remember, that in the event of these legal pursuits, the Government of Cameroon will abandon you to face your fate alone. No excuse, of being asked to commit acts of torture, of rape, looting and arson, of genocide and crimes against humanity can or will save you. You will face your fate individually. The Government of Cameroon cannot protect you against any legal pursuits which are presently being compiled against you. Do not leave yourselves to be continuously manipulated by uncouth politicians for the selfish gains.

DR. AYABA CHO LUCAS, STILL INTRANSIGENT TO COLLABORATION by Mbiydzenyuy David WANTANGWA

DR. AYABA CHO LUCAS, STILL INTRANSIGENT TO COLLABORATION

When I saw the video on collaboration of Dr. Cho Ayaba Lucas, at first sight, I heaved a sigh of relief, and began telling my friends, that at last the LRC demonic dictatorship will see its end rapidly. I had not listened to the video then, but to my greatest dismay, I felt deceived, annoyed and terribly upset after listening to the usual recitations of Dr. Ayaba aimless rhetoric to please the weak minded and manipulate the short sighted to think he means good for the Ambazonia people. This video came on the same day of the gruesome murder of a group of youths in Santa, purported to have been deceived into this calamity by Atanga Nji Paul. With the sadness that once again spread over Ambazonia, I expected Ayaba to come out and finally end the long awaited resistance to collaboration with the Interim Government of Ambazonia, for that is the crux of the matter. But no, Dr. Ayaba once again demonstrated his intransigence to genuine cooperation by describing his own kind of collaboration at this critical point in time which indeed did not mention the IG, instead it demonstrated his continuous rejection of recognition of the IG. In passing, and probably he did not mean it, he mentioned the capture of the Ambazonia leaders, and later reiterated his resolve to work only with a democratically elected structure, meaning, he did not recognise the IG and would want the people of Ambazonia at this time, to go back to the drawing table to reconstruct who should constitute the collaborative platform according to his own whims and caprices. Some ambazonians were so quick overwhelmingly throw the ball over to the IG, saying it is left now for the IG to fulfil its own part to show also its willingness to cooperate with the Ayaba description of the collaborative platform. I have observed for a very long time, the criticisms levelled against Ayaba, and I have been very reticent because I am not interested in low level interventions and childish and selfish arguments and tussles over leadership. In fact, the surrogates of Ayaba have contributed to bring him to where he is today. No one dares to correct him. Permit me to draw an analogy here. It is the same scenario that Paul is facing today. His own surrogates have falsely elevated him only to led him have a huge fall. The intransigence of Dr. Ayaba is with the complicity and overwhelming support and fanatical support in fact of his surrogates of the AGC who have been so abusive of the IG leadership and who refuse to come to terms with the fact that the business of government is not identical with the business of pressure groups. Ambazonians who think anyone in the struggle is as good as the other are deceiving themselves. All of us are not the same in the various interventions that are needed to bring Diplomatic recognition around the world or legal representation or even collaboration with other movements around the world. The IG which is the government, cannot come and perform the task of the pressure movements like the AGC, SCYL, ARCC, etc. In the event of a negotiation, we should come to terms with the fact that real high level negotiators and qualified heavy weights are required to turn our situation right round and not just anyone can do it. Again, the real business of the revolution is massively taken place away from social media and we should know that. We cannot expect that the pockets of successes registered by the various pressure groups and movements in the struggle, should be identical with the performance and roles of the government. One is a pressure group and another is a government. Time is not on our side to re-start the singing of democratically elected platform by the ambazonians and it is rightly out of place to insist on this as Dr. Ayaba wants Ambazonians to go back to the drawing table. I have got confirmation, that the various groups which he mentioned in his video that were demanding collaboration were doing so in the hope that he would humbly collaborate with the IG, for that has been the specific cry of the Ambazonia people especially those of GZ who have been hoping that those out there could come to one common platform, not necessarily dissolving the respective groups anyhow but to collaborate somehow due to the common enemy we have to defeat. Listening to Dr. Ayaba's prescription of the kind of collaboration it is clear he deceived those groups he mentioned to think he will do something in common with the IG not knowing he would sit in the privacy of his residence and work out his own kind of collaborative platform and within his own terms that he wants the Ambazonians to follow. This cannot be called by any other name than intransigence, obstinacy and senseless pride in the midst of suffering and strife on Ground Zero. Does Dr. Ayaba really care about democracy which has been described as government of the people by the people and for the people? Ignoring the demands of the people and working out his own terms under which the people should at this present critical moment, abandon what they have seriously engaged in, and for which we cannot tolerate any failure, to embrace a new structure can only also be termed as arrogance. Shockingly enough, some of us have shown that we are so desperate that anything just holds for anything. We must know, that in order to succeed in these trying times, our strategists are not sleeping, both in the diplomatic and self defence perspectives and their plans are those that are well calculated to bring us only success. We cannot afford to fail. Looking at the 20th May strategy, and the response on Ground Zero and the resilience demonstrated by the people in obedience to their government, the IG, we cannot afford to be distracted by shirking off the present structures to embrace an anonymous setup without a name and purpose only because we want to bring Dr. Ayaba and his anti IG surrogates, on board and he must only come on board with his, or in his own terms. This is disastrous. It is not every Ambazonia that can sit on the negotiation table with those crooks from the LRC. We need heavy weights and not clowns just because of the kind of democracy that only us can describe. Why are we prone to manipulate our followers? Why are we prone to manipulate the people of Ambazonia? What is the gain from this kind of intransigence? This is a great shame. At a time when the international community is getting seriously involved, we are busy working our counter strategies to bring down the IG with whom any sensible person on earth can discuss. The IG is aware of the inclusive nature of participation in the event of any negotiation because, they need to possess all the JOKERS as in the game of cards and not adventurers. Let us be critical please and let us not be overtaken by the rhetoric of Dr. Ayaba which is not inclusive at all. On our own side, are the various groups able to face each other in an inclusive strategy to fight the murderous enemy we are facing? And why must it only be the IG which Dr. Ayaba has continuously referred to as the Zaria Mafia and the product of fraud. Can the AGC do that task? Our success lies on the different level and whether we like it or not, the participation and successes recorded with the UNPO now with the ANC are good and proper at the pressure group level but at the government level it is totally a different scenario. Let us be since first to ourselves and see, what is good for us at this present moment.

Distress Call of the Bishops of Cameroon

 The Bishops of the Episcopal Conference of Cameroon, have cautioned and appealed to Cameroonian authorities to do everything to avoid "a useless and senseless civil war".  Will the authorities, in fact, will President Paul Biya, keep aside this insanity and heed to the call of the Episcopal Conference?

ARCC LEADERSHIP! THIS IS NOT BUSINESS AS USUAL! STOP THE HATE AND UNDERSTAND! by Mbiydzenyuy Dave

Let us get things clear. I want to base my writeup on the following: the statement of Eric Tataw and the alert sent out by Secretary Chris Anu. I want to also challenge those who did not listen and hear well in between the lines to re-listen to the interview of the AIP with Eric Tataw.

We have been crying all around about self-defence against the LRC atrocities in GZ which are indeed abominable. You can understand that the replacement of General Melingui is linked to the untold atrocities, looting, war crimes being committed by the LRC military in their stupid war against the people of Ambazonia. He, being a lawyer and knowing that in the case of responsibility, each and every soldier will answer personally and individually, for his or her share of the atrocities and not the state of Cameroon, since it has subscribed to various international and national regulatory instruments. I have again read from Eric Tataw, who has drawn our attention to the reality of the facts on GZ. Let me ask the ARCC and the others who think that Chris Anu and Eric Tataw made xenophobic statements. Everybody yells about his or her concern for GZ but no one wants to face the reality of the situation on the ground. We sit in the comfort of our homes and say anything we want to because our heads are so full of theory and we think that in a war situation those theories would guide the evolution of things on GZ. The members of ARCC to say the least should be sick in their heads. You cannot eat your cake and have it. I have listened to the alert of Secretary Chris Anu and if I were to classify it, it will not go beyond the level of an honest and frank alert talk less of being xenophobic. ARCC has not succeeded in pointing out one xenophobic insinuation in his statements apart from the fact that their limpy criticism is either the fruit of jealousy, incompetence in handling the situation on the ground, of mediocrity in situational assessment or of complicity with the LRC bastards. The DO who first alerted people in Manyu to flee their homes did so in betrayal of the situation that was impending. Therefore, we should take time before jumping into foolish sweeping theories and all we can do is to send out meaningless statements in the hope that we can make some relevance to anybody and impress the international community or whoever likes to listen to that crap and clap for us. Some of us have first-hand experience of war situations, in various countries and I would confidently tell you that those theories have no impact in the actual implementation of the project of war. They do not go beyond the level of stale cautions while a people are perishing. Secretary Chris, has just sent out a concerned and thoughtful alert to the Francophones. Since you people whose only job of the revolution is to sit back and criticize the IG, in spite of itself, you are too short sighted to realize that the real business of government goes beyond the noise of movements and to tell you the truth, what is coming up is NOT BUSINESS AS USUAL. For once you should get this, if you did listen to the AIP’s statement, that by the end of this month it will NOT BE BUSINESS AS USUAL. LET THAT SINK INTO YOUR HEADS SINCE YOU WANT EVERY STATEMENT TO BE MADE TO YOU LIKE CHILDREN ON SOCIAL MEDIA, the space where you think you have unlimited freedom to speak and write any kind of crap probably like I am doing now, to some. But all of us should get this clear, by the end of the month it will not be business as usual. Do not deceive yourselves, by saying that the ultimatum given to the LRC demonic regime did not take place, and others. Again, to our francophone brothers, you should be surprised that some of us are trying to mislead you to stay in the SC and die. Please, take refuge in the LRC for what is coming up is not business as usual and that is the meaning of Secretary Chris Anu and Eric Tataw. We cannot and will not waste time to theorize and guarantee your security because the exercise under pursuit is a tedious and delicate one, so for your safety go to the LRC and afterwards you can come back. We will welcome you, that is what Secretary Chris Anu said. On the other hand, since such a move is never understood by everyone, SCs who are in the LRC should be on high alert in case some of their extremist as usual take upon themselves to think that we are fighting against them, and vent their anger on you. That too, we cannot guarantee, we would not cross to the LRC and waste time to rescue you back home, there is no time for that. So whether, you are on both sides and you understand this, it will be very wise to take appropriate action because you are your own first security before any other person. This is what Secretary Chris Anu meant. There is a third group of people to whom I want to address some definitive words, that is, those Francophones who have been serving the monstrous regime in Yaoundé with information and betrayal of our people and struggle coupled with those idiots, beggars and slaves of the system called the Elite. We cannot also guarantee that you will be spared the wrath of those who overtake you while you betray them. I only feel sorry for you because your greed is leading you to eat the crumbs of the occultist regime in Yaoundé and forget that a whole generation has been crippled and crumbled by this very regime while you aid it to do so. And now to ARCC and its leadership, are you therefore jealous that real and credible action begun taking place in GZ in pursuit of the real business of self-defense which you are incapable of engaging?. You deceive yourselves with what you call peaceful, legal and diplomatic whatever you want to call it having misled and brainwashed a few surrogates in the diaspora to help you pursue your selfish anxieties without any real results to showcase your genuine concern for the Ambazonian people as anyone is wont to sing out on social media. The situation on GZ does not warrant such lousy approaches anymore, and what more, such mediocre theories. You should be abreast with the history of the struggle and know that we have gone pass that stage of theory. Since your job description is only good when you criticize the IG and you deceive yourselves that in such a revolution democracy or whatever selfish methods you want to use to continue keeping the people of Ambazonia in endless hope while you run around your personal affairs in and around the diaspora try to do something better for yourselves and stop fooling anyone that you have any real concern for Ambazonia and for Self-Defence in GZ, which you are so quick to mention without knowing the full implication of what it takes to defend homeland. The IG is not made of Gods, nor of angels. It is made up of individuals and who told you they will not fail, yet in spite of themselves, they presently hold the mandate of the people of Ambazonia, so you can wile away with you empty headed words and jealous accusation of it being a “self-proclaimed” institution. That is all you have been singing. Yet, the IG, if not driven by the concern for the people through engaging action on many fronts, for that is the business of government which is not and cannot be synonymous to that of a chaotic group like yours with no sense of purpose. What are all of you doing and what agenda are you following? Will you then abandon the agendas of your individual movements and follow that of ARCC, if there is any? We find you forming one group after another, just to dissipate the energy that we need to muster to fight the LRC insanity. Hanlding a government, whether desirable to your multiple and confused agendas or not, is not the same thing as shouting from your rooms in the diaspora exactly like the toothless bull dogs we want to be to Biya and his cohorts. This is not going to be business as usual and if you have ears, hear and caution your Francophone friends to protect themeselves. The clarification of the statement is abundantly clear to anyone who still wants to doubt. If you like keep romancing the LRC dictatorship and dandling it as you want to do. However, be reminded that the IG as bad or as worse as it may be is also being driven not just by the fear to fail the people of Ambazonia, but with a kind of determination and confidence to succeed and lead the people to freedom, a thing that has never happened in the history of the struggle because a lot of you enriched yourselves from the struggle throughout the years. We thank God, that the ground plan for our liberation as laid down by the IG cannot, is not and will not happen through your bad laptops and android screens in the diaspora, it is taking place where you do not have access and you have been overtaken. By now, each and everyone of you involved in the ARCC should be ashamed each time you want to raise your voices only to damn your own. We are aware that you pray and wish the collapse of the IG, because you deceive yourselves that democratic elections or whatever you call it, can be the present preoccupation of the people just because some of your crooks had not been included who wanted to derail the ship from its present direction. By the way, next time, you guys try to format your letters to reflect some seriousness, because if you wrote that to any diplomatic office they will take you for veritable clowns who are not even able to handle basic office operations before wanting to rule a nation. SHAME!

Mbiydzenyuy Dave WANTANGWA

History Is About To Repeat Itself by Ambe Emmanuel

Here we are again at a crossroads, in yet another rendez-vous with history. I wonder why history has such an ugly and uncanny way of repeating itself.

What we are about to witness between the Anglophones and the francophones is actually a remake, a perfect replica of history. For those who were there in the 1960 or who read the stories, they will surely agree with me.
When UPC independents that were tagged as terrorists by the French backed Ahidjo regime were pursued for extermination, many indigenes from the BAMBOUTOS plateau of the Grand West; DSCHANG, BANGOU, MBOUDA, BAFOUSSAM and other interior villages sought refuge in Ambazonia.
The same argument held for the Anti-colonialists who hailed from the SANAGA-MARITIME and BASSA areas in principal villages like EDEA, MWANKO, MARIEMBERG, EKITE, DIZANGE, POUMA, BOUMNYEBEL right up to OTELE at the out skirts of Yaoundé.
Entire such villages were razed to the ground by incendiary bombs that were airlifted by the LRC military in the same way as it is happening in Ambazonia now. Scores of people were exterminated and disposed of in mass graves with a gruesome 2 million citizens losing their lives and many people went unaccounted for. Families were separated in different directions as people fled for their lives, with many people never having an account of their loved ones, if they were alive or dead.
Those who survived or who were smart enough to escape the Ahidjo killer squads sought refuge in Ambazonia that was far removed from the conflict.
Such havens included KUPE MUANENGUBA, LIMBE and the BAKASSI Peninsular. Kupe Muanenguba was favourable because of its hilly nature and its dense forests which were seemingly impenetrable by LRC forces. These hills, caves and dense forests served as a perfect hideout for those who fled the war. For the Coastal areas, the Sea, the Creeks and the Islands served as an escape route and a hide out from oppressive post colonial forces.
Those who fled LRC and sought refuge in Ambazonia are the ones we now call the MBO Anglophones, the BASSA Anglophones and the BAMILEKE Anglophones. Let it be known that many of these people had their names changed by adopted local names for fear of identification and imminent victimization.
While many of the Bamilekes who fled the oppression genuinely sought refuge Kupe Muanenguba, some Bamilekes actually came there to act as spies for LRC. This double game was part of what triggered the Bakassi-Bamileke war. The Bakossis desperately wanted the Bamilekes to leave their land, having felt betrayed by the actions of the latter. Xenophobia rose to the high heavens to a point where Ahidjo asked all Bamilekes to leave Bakossi lands so that he could send planes to bomb the entire area and kill all the Bakossis. By some twist of faith the bombing never occurred. Till date, there has been an uneasy relationship between both entities.
Yet again, in Foumban 1961, Anglophones felt betrayed by the grand OUEST (The Bamilekes are not the only tribe in the OUEST region). What was supposed to be a serious Constitutional arrangement that will determine the destiny and the future of a people ended up being a socio-cultural jamboree and a SEX ORGY. Once again, our brothers from the OUEST were sent to do the dirty job against the Anglophones. Ahidjo instructed the Paramount Ruler of the Bamoun (NJOYA) to TAKE CARE of the Anglophone Delegates that came from the Anglophone region.
I have a problem with the expression to take care of someone. Not only is the expression ambiguous but it is highly bipolar.
For example, in Military terms, to take care of someone means to KILL HIM. In this context, the expression is actually a code.
In ordinary context, to take care of someone means to ensure that the person is kept as comfortable as possible at the expense of the host.
So when Ahidjo instructed the Sultan of the Bamoun to take care of our Anglophone brothers, what was the insinuation?
Two fridges will all sorts of assorted wines was kept in every room of the Principal Delegates like FONCHA, MUNA, JUA and ENDELEY, while two of the very BEST of the Bamoun women each had to take care of them. The Ordinary Delegates had one fridge and one hostess to take care of them as well.
The choice of the women was not left to chance. I mean the VERY BEST, for those who know Bamoun women, the huge, gorgeous, sleek, voluptuous and light-skinned from the Royal Palace had to ensure that our Delegates had the BEST SEX ever of their lifetimes. The Bamoun women; as smooth as honey down your throat and very crafty and cunning, very dangerous women who can go to any length to get what they want. They even took pictures together to ensure that it remained a memorable event of a lifetime.
That is how the Anglophones who were so over-drunk with choicest wines and sex didnt meet their objective of working on an inclusive constitution that will safeguard Anglophone interests.
60 years later, Anglophones still blame Foumban for the sell out.
Indeed it was a job well done, reason why the NJOYAs have remained an integral part of all Ahidjo and Biya Post Colonial Governments, in recompense for a job well done. IBRAHIM MBOMBO NJOYA has occupied all kinds of Ministerial portfolios over the years and he is now Senator. Adamou NDAM NJOYA also occupied a number of portfolios including minister of Education where he extended his anti Anglophone sentiments by wanting to abolish the London GCE that was written across the Mungo in those days.
When Irene Biya died, the OUEST even proposed RABIATOU NJOYA for a wife to further cement their union. Even though that didnt work, Chantal Biyas solved the equation as her mom hails from the OUEST Region. That show these things work.
What is the symbol of the Bamoun Empire? A snake with two heads. They are neither this way nor that way. They eat from both sides of the plate, playing the role of the bat; when the animals are winning they take sides with them, presenting their teeth, when the birds are winning they take sides with them, brandishing their wings.
I had friends from that area who could neither speak good French or good English because they want to identify with both the francophones and the Anglophones at the same time.
The anti OUEST or anti Bamileke syndrome is understandable. In the past and even now, many Bamilekes who posed as Anglophones were given scholarships to study abroad in lieu of bonafide Anglophones.
To crown it all, a Bamileke man has now been assigned to head military operations in Ambazonia, colonel DJOTSA.
Bad as all these may be, much water has flowed down the bridge over time and attacking the francophones or asking them to leave our land will have negative consequences on our struggle. Regardless of the fact that emotions are running high in the wake of hate speech and xenophobic and belligerent rhetoric we must not let emotion to take the best of us. Our focus should be retained on the struggle and not on distraction or emotion.
I read a concise paper from a certain DON WANOBI about QUEBEC. There is no way anyone can tell me that there are no English speaking Canadians living in Quebec. There is no country that doesnt have Diplomatic Relations.
LRC may be our worst enemy today but if we get independence, we will still establish Diplomatic and Trade Relations with them. With the Structural Integration of World Systems (Globalization), no country is an island. Travel, Technology and Trade has pushed even the Cold War countries to pull down their selfish barriers. Im not sure there are no Iranians living in the US and there are no Americans doing some kind of business in Iran.
As most of us are abroad, we must remember that those in Ground Zero are already paying a HEAVY PRICE and we must not make life more unbearable for them than it already is. As it stands, our brothers in ground zero are already going through the worst. The essence of keeping the struggle alive is to retain the sympathy and the confidence of our brothers on Ground Zero. If Ground Zero loses our confidence then rest assured that things will back fire on the struggle.
Before anyone asks the Francophones to leave Ambazonia, let that person ensure that about TWO MILLION Anglophones who have built houses and established business in LRC return home.
Let’s be reminded that the entire BONABERI in Douala is an Anglophone zone. In Yaounde, there are huge Anglophone settlements in ETOUG EBE, BIYAM ASSI, MENDONG, SIMBOCK MVOG ADA, MELEN, OBILI to name a few.
In the MUNGO division our brothers are fishing and farming in SOUZA, PENJA, NKONGSAMBA, LOUM and other villages.
In KYE OSSI in the South Region there are Anglophones there at the border with Equatorial Guinea and Gabon who are doing cross-border trade.
In the East region in YOKADUMA there are Anglophones there who are doing business.
In NGAOUNDERE and GAROUA there are many Anglophone businessmen there as well. So let us ensure that all of our return before we start pursuing the Francophones.
No one should believe that we have a monopoly of violence or of witchcraft. As we plan to attack the Francophones, lets be reminded that they will also attack us in these and in other Regions.
Among the first persons who went out of the way challenged the declaration of war against the Anglophones and he has remained consistent in his write ups in challenging LRC against this war is DIEUDONNE ESSOMBA. This man has mentioned severally that its a SENSELESS WAR that doesnt have the backing of the people and LRC will be DEFEATED. Essomba went further to question the use of the word terrorists by LRC when its leader is talking about one and indivisibility. He has openly challenged the manner in which LRC has handled the crisis so far, calling for dialogue as the only way out. ESSOMBA is a francophone.
PATRICE NGANANG, another francophone spent two good weeks visiting Ambazonia villages and he could not hide his indignation against the Biya Regime. Nganang got so furious that in an emotional outburst, he challenged Biya to a Texas style duel of the yesteryears where he would not hesitate to bury a bullet between Biyas eyes when he saw the carnage that LRC forces had meted out on the same people Biya claims are citizens of the infamous one and indivisible Cameroon. H couldnt understand how a government could be so wicked against its citizens. Nganang spent jail time for supporting the Ambazonians as he called himself an Ambazonian. Upon his release and banishment from LRC, Nganang returned to the USA where he published a book on the Anglophone/Ambazonia crisis, citing all the military atrocities and he even received a recognition from Ambazonians in New England USA for his support of the Ambazonia struggle. NGANANG is a francophone.
MANCHO BBC and over 100 of our brothers including AGBORBALL, FONTEM, TSI CONRARD who have been standing trial for over a year now have had many francophone lawyers in their Defense Counsel. I cite Pr ASSIRA CLAUDE and Barrister HAPPI (one time SDF mayor of Bafoussam). These francophones have challenged the legitimacy of trying civilians in a Military Court, as well as challenging the use of the word “terrorist” on unarmed demonstrators who asked for nothing but the respect of their rights. These people are francophones who have no interest in Ambazonia independence, yet they have stuck out their heads to support our struggle at their expense, knowing how vindictive and villainous the regime in power is.
While our very own English-owned STV (The Mukete’s) preferred to either go mute or to toe the LRC editorial line against the Ambazonians, EQUINOXE TV is the only Station that has made the Anglophone /Ambazonia struggle their personal matter. While many other private TV stations have either been bribed not to report on the struggle or bullied to submission, EQNUINOXE has stood its ground for two years now, championing the Anglophone cause. EQUINOXE has been the only channel that has gone across the border to Nigeria with the AYAH foundation to cover the plight of our refugees who are stranded out there. This station is owned by a Francophone, a Bamileke man, SEVERIN TCHOUNEKU.
The AYAH Foundation, our only hope and perhaps the Anglophone RED CROSS has broken bounds on the humanitarian front, going across the borders severally to help the destitute, the sick and the hospitalized. We have seen our youth taking the initiative, while our parents and grandparents have sat back, wining and dining with their godfathers in Yaoundé. People calling themselves political leaders and political elite, when the same people who voted them are being killed, their homes are burned down, they are are stranded on hills and residing in make shift homes in the jungle while others are stranded in a foreign country. We saw reports of how some families were separated, with members residing in different local councils in Nigeria as they ran for their lives. We saw pregnant women who had to foot it across the bushes for several days without food or water. We saw women with two week old babies on the run.
Of cause this doesnt concern our Political Leaders because they are more concerned about retaining their relationship with LRC so as to protect their Duty Posts or to seek re-election to office in the next elections. Our children have written their names on the sands of time; LENA FABRICE, TEM MARTIN and AYAH AYAH, the one who founded the initiative. These youth have rallied a lot of financial support from home and from abroad as many benevolent have contributed money to ensure that their humanitarian objectives are met. I am sure that many Francophones who sympathize with the carnage in the Anglophone zones have equally contributed to this foundation that takes care of our sick and injured brothers.
I read some comments online and I see many francophones sympathizing with us even though others dont.
Shall we throw away those who are on our side because of those who are against us?
We also have the Anglophones who by no fault of theirs are half breeds, Anglophones who have a parent from across the MUNGO due to intermarriages. Even though they fully identify with us and they support the Struggle, it doesnt negate the fact that they have parental links across the Mungo. Im wondering how the killing of Francophones in Ambazonia will play on their morale, as well as the effect it will have on the Struggle. Those who are calling on Francophones to leave their land should provide a solution for the half breeds
Many francophones support and sympathize with us, even though they do not support our independence. I follow a lot of Debates on satellite TV here and I can even cite names of people and of Francophone Political Parties who have openly accused LRC for causing the escalation of the crisis by arresting those who asked for a Federation. The MRC for example though one of such through its lawyer, Mr. KACK KACK.
There is also the leader of another party JEAN MARC NGOSSE, then there is the PURS, then we have independent minds like BORIS BERTOLT, PATRICE NOUMA, PAUL CHOUTA and others who have been publishing the Military atrocities LRC has inflicted on us. For example, I got the live video of the Burning in LEBIALEM by LRC on BORIS BERTOLTs page, long before our very own MARK BARETA published it.
I was very surprised why there was a popular outrage against BORIS BERTOLT giving a view of the Ambazonia struggle from a francophone view point yet we dont get offended when he publishes Ambazonia stuff on his wall.
We saw the AYAH foundation using francophones on a live coverage to raise awareness over the plight of our refugees and we heard all they said in our favour. Many francophones sympathize with us even if they dont make open declarations for fear of victimization. We need to be careful how we exercise our emotion.
The people we should be angry with are our own brothers who are supporting the same Regime that is killing us.
Who are the ones heading Military operations in Ambazonia? Are ELOKOBI and AGHA not Anglophones?
How many Anglophone Politicians both CPDM and Opposition have denounced the killings and the Military atrocities in Ambazonia?
ACHIDI ACHU did, reason why he was deposed from Senate. Fru Ndi speaks only when it’s in his interest. Was Fru Ndi not asked not to participate in the Senatorials? What was his response?
The SDF is not an Anglophone party, yet who voted him? What about our MPs and Senators?
How can political parties be talking about Elections when 4 out of 6 Divisions in the SW are carnaged and deserted, with bullets flying in all directions while 4 out of 7 Divisions in the NW are at war?
Who is the true enemy here, the Francophones or our very own?
AMBE EMMANUEL.

THE ARCC COULD DO ITS JOB WITHOUT UNNECESSARILY NAILING OTHERS by Chris Bongam

THE ARCC COULD DO ITS JOB WITHOUT UNNECESSARILY NAILING OTHERS. REMEMBER, THERE IS NO ONE WITH A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO PROSECUTE THIS REVOLUTION.

What is wrong with our people? who cursed us? 

Must we look for faults and any simple opportuinity to attack each other in order to have something to write on?

It is time to be consistent and focused. Still fresh in our memories is the fact that we can not successfully establish an independent Ambazonian state(considering the vultures we are dealing with) through "Peaceful Diplomacy". Surprising that just at a time when defence has been given preference and it begins to flourish, we again confuse our people by talking of;

(1) "PEACEFUL, LEGAL, NON-VIOLENT AND DIPLOMATIC MEANS as the approach for us to be recognized and at the same time, we talk of

(2) "RENEW SUPPORT FOR RIGHT OF OUR PEOPLE TO SELF DEFENCE".

In my personal opinion, both MUST work together and l belief that we can make our points without unnecessary picking on others or trying to rubbish one another just to gain popular support.
Besides, if we can neutralize our own just because they refuse to heed to our calls to either defect as soldiers or to resign as administrators as well as blacklegs, then the talks about Francophones leaving our land and Anglophones returning is not completely wrong. After all, our people will soon need a visa to go to LRC and vise versa.
Let me remind us that one of the easierst ways to end this Revolution would have been for our people to be on our Land and Francophones to cross back East of the Mongo. If all our links were completely cut off from LRC, the story would have been different. It is needless for me to add here that 99% of Francophones in our land are spies and give out details about all our activities and that eases the job of our oppressors. If not can anyone justify the selective arson perpetrated in our land while properties of Francophones remain unaffected?

We can do better than this and stop confusing the vulnerable population on ground zero. If we are for SELF DEFENCE, we should be for it, back it, enforce all moves towards that direction and encourage our people to defend themselves at all cost. Support all moves geared towards moving our campaign further, but add or subtract without throwing stones at each other.

Chris Bongam

OPEN LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE MILITARY TRIBUNAL, AHEAD OF THE JUDGEMENT ON THE MANCHO BIBIXY CASE by Mbiydzenyuy David WANTANGWA

            AN OPEN LETTER TO MADAME THE PRESIDENT OF THE MILITARY TRIBUNAL, AHEAD OF THE JUDGEMENT ON THE MANCHO BIBIXY CASE.

by Mbiydzenyuy David WANTANGWA, Bamenda.

            Madam President,

Peace and Good! For a few weeks now, the court over which you preside has begun handing down sentences to those considered by the state to have been guilty of some accusations. Needless, to tell you that those sentences as well as the procedures that led to those sentences have simply been classified in international community as farcical and ridiculous, a thing which has proven beyond measure that the Cameroon justice system is one of the most manipulated, most politicized, most inconsistent and most laughable systems in Africa. Some critics have seen that it is principally being held hostage by the president of the republic and the justice minister who are high-handedly meddling in the fair justice process in Cameroon. Presumably, you are found in a precarious situation where you are just simply a manipulative tool in the hands of a whimsical and insane dictatorship that seeks at all cost to render itself immune to the responsibility they bear in the maneuvers of true justice, the rule of law and respect of human rights. You are supposed to be aware that the series of trials over which you have presided, have seriously debased the dignity of the justice system in Cameroon and further rendered the country extremely notorious for eroding the rule of law. In fact, the African Bar Association, described it as using “fascist and gestapo” methods in handling the situation.

In a few days, you are expected to hand down another sentence in an extremely sensitive and internationally preoccupying case, concerning an activist (Mancho Bibixy) whose genuine concern for the welfare of the people and the amelioration of living conditions in his hometown has been publicly demonstrated and proven. Already, the underlying tenets of that judgement have proven themselves to be in complete contradiction to the logic of justice and therefore insanely to the enterprise or business of the common respect for human rights, right reason and the rule of law. Therefore, another laughable law on terrorism which pretends to have rendered him guilty of terrorism is what is indeed preoccupying in your assessment of the matter, which is regarded not only as totally foolish on the international scene as the assumptions and conclusions of your court massively lack the essential ingredients of terrorism – a veritable mockery of the very international and national instruments to which Cameroon has subscribed and which are supposed to be the guiding principles of justice and the rule of law. It is not possible to comprehend how one can be cleared of any violence and other necessary ingredients that breed terrorism and instead of leading to a logical conclusion that he is THEREFORE NOT GUILTY, your court dares to go ahead to dangerously declare that he is guilty of terrorism. It is only an insane mind that can blackmail an honorable man who stood for the common good of his people as a terrorist. What a shock! It should have dawned unto you by now, that the terrorism laws in Cameroon were skillfully manipulated and formulated to protect the powerful and give them the leeway to trample on the defenseless. This is what makes the military tribunal over which you preside more of a ridiculous instrument in the administration of justice, having overstepped its bounds to insist on abandoning its real responsibilities and point of focus, to waste precious time resources of the fatherland on vain, staged trials, politicized and twisted procedures on civilians, to deliver the most outrageous judgements, unmerited sentences, on people on whom unjustified labels have been falsely placed.

As a slave of a dictatorial and murderous system, and as a hostage of a whimsical dictator, we are aware that you have no option than to obey those who dictate the sentences to you in the hope that they prevail on the people. Therefore, your conscience and your personal impressions and awareness of the innocence of those civilians brought before you do not count before the powers that be. However, be aware, that the particular sentence you will hand out on the 8^th of May 2018 on a particular individual, Mancho Bibixy, a man who is far from being a terrorist, a label unknown to anyone until your military tribunal embarrassingly placed it on him, will make or mar the struggle for any genuine peace in Cameroon and we are not too sure if you are going to enjoy the escalation of the situation that will be caused by what we suspect is the sentence for terrorism in Cameroon. Since the government of Cameroon and its ministers have demonstrated not only their incompetence to handle any project of peace and genuine dialogue but prefer to go ahead to adopt “fascist and gestapo” methods of causing unnecessary stir in the Central African sub region, we want to challenge you. Could you be the only person in that scheme who could stand up for outright justice and sanity in Cameroon? Is it possible that you can break away from your masters and deliver what the people whose mandate they are supposed to have, desire? Is it possible that you could make history in an attempt to restore true justice and respect for human rights in the midst of selfish and greedy politicians whose influence is overbearing on you? It is absolutely dangerous for you personally and the credibility of the courts over which you preside, needless to talk of its effects if you are not an accomplice to it.

The ball, as they say, is in your court but we know that the sentence is being carefully worked out in a politically manipulated system that does not respect human rights and has no regard for human life. We are aware that, if it were within your personal capacities you would not do what you are about to do, because you, as a mother, will not be such a wicked devil as to falsely impute on a son what he has not done in order to kill him and please a greedy insane dictator who has no real interest for peace. Maybe you were able to caution the system and use your high office to the best of your abilities to respect justice and human rights. However, there is an account to be rendered to history which is more precious that the account you may be keen to render to a dying, murderous, insane dictator.

The world is keenly watching out for you on the 8^th of May 2018. Will you make history strangely or continue to mar it in the usual slanted manner in which these procedures have gone for the past months? That would be a rare occasion indeed. The fate and twist of events in the coming days largely depend on this case and on you; the future peace process, if you seek any, depends on this case. So, we would implore you, judge wisely and again, take the courage to judge wisely.

We are not expecting you to become an anglophone, neither are we expecting from you to see them as enemies, but we expect you to see that the reason for which a country is emptying thousands of its citizens into prison before looking for accusations to levy on them is a clear pointer to the failed justice system in Cameroon. We expect you to be a rare champion of human rights, we expect you to respect God your Creator and then human life. We expect you to admit sincerely that those who have seen the systematic marginalization of the citizens who are being charged with fake crimes is a crime against humanity being committed by the Government of the Republic of Cameroon. We expect in a rare hope, that you could afford to be a solution to the failed justice system of Cameroon, if at all you are not an accomplice to the misery that is being raked to the thousands of families that are presently being devastated by your decisions for a few weeks now and causing directly and indirectly more suffering to them. You bear direct responsibility for the sentences you hand out to them; you bear direct responsibility for the misery being caused to their families and communities because of those sentences; you take direct responsibility for the effects caused to the peace and future of the Cameroons; you bear direct responsibility and will be held accountable for the deteriorating situation of the Cameroons.

Madam President, if you love the people of the Cameroons; if you love the future of the Cameroons; if you love the youth of those countries; if the love of peace, justice, human dignity and the inalienable rights and freedoms are anything admirable to you; if you love credibility and if you yearn for the restoration of the justice system; could you dare to take the rare courage, discard the raging and overbearing demands of uncouth and greedy politicians that have ruined and frustrated the future of the youth of that country, AND MAKE A DIFFERENCE! All we ask of you is to MAKE A DIFFERENCE!

Sincerely yours,

Mbiydzenyuy David WANTANGWA