"The only way by which the LRC dictatorship of this man, Paul Biya, can continue to wrangle and make the noise of a "one and indivisible" country over which they have imposed their rule, is to show a legal document, to the satisfaction of the United Nations and other World bodies and above all, to the people of Southern Cameroons, that binds them to his tyrannical regime. Otherwise, all their grip over the people is intrusive, illegal and unrecognized. You cannot perpetrate the reign of terror on a people over whom you illegally impose yourselves with the complicity of a good number of players in and out of Cameroon. The time of reckoning is now. Prove your legality over the people first. We do not need to belabour the point that there is no legal document showing that Cameroon was ever or is one and indivisible as you are wont to quickly yell."
The
Biya Regime: Inciting Civil War, Perpetrating Genocide, Terrorism and
Repression by
Mbiydzenyuy David WANTANGWA
“if
you keep silence in the face of aggression, then you have chosen the
side of the oppressor”. (Desmond Tutu) and “it is a sin to be
silent when it is your duty to protest” (Abraham Lincoln).
Introduction
to Reality
The
manipulative divide-and-rule strategies of the LRC government,
shepherded by its leader, the dictator, Paul Biya, spearheaded by
some of his government ministers, thugs and elites and executed by
their brutal military, and skillfully teleguided by France, their
colonial master, had no other purpose than to breed civil war, incite
hate and division between the Francophones and the citizens of
Southern Cameroons. Unfortunately, they have met with the most
intelligent, resolute, and unpredictably strategic handling of the
crisis by the leaders of Southern Cameroons in spite of their own
shortcomings. The attitude of the LRC government is reminiscent of an
evasive regime that has only one tool, called the HAMMER, (repressive
criminals in the name of military), and so they force every problem
to resemble a nail so as to fit with their sole tool, to hammer it
and force themselves on the people. “If you have to win by dividing
people, you won’t be able to govern them” said Barack Obama.
Legitimacy over a people is merited and sanctioned by constructive
democratic management of crises and not my imposing its inadequate,
archaic, barbaric, albeit, mediocre, obnoxious solutions on the
people. Again, “indigenous people have the right to
self-determination. By virtue of that right, they freely determine
their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and
cultural development”. (United Nations). This is the reality the
LRC government will have to face and the hard knot they will have to
come to terms with and swallow.
The
LRC regime’s handling of what is now popularly called “the
anglophone problem” which smacks of a very high magnitude of
incompetence, butchery, rapine, or in other words uncontrolled
military repression, has led to a lot of reflection and background
action on both sides and we publish a series of articles relating to
the true aims underlying the regime’s intentions behind this form
of archaic tyranny in the 21st
century.
Here
we are! faced with a murderous regime that will not hesitate to kill
anyone who differs with their agenda in order to have their way to
continue the systematic pillage of this fatherland.
Here
we are! with a veritably lying, manipulative and Machiavellian
leadership that possesses the evil skills of divide and rule
politics, corruption of the masses, disruption of the genuine rule of
law and whimsical administration of state affairs.
Here
we are! faced with a completely “deviant regime, that rules only
with a view to personal advantage”. In our earlier Open Letter to
the President and to the Episcopal Conference of the Bishops of
Cameroon (you can read the letter in its entirety in,
www.ambassbay.blogspot.com/...)
we exposed some details about this regime which have in the course of
these months proven to be undoubtedly true. The claim of the regime
over the people of Southern Cameroons has become clearly illegitimate
as the people have unanimously rejected the Yaoundé dictatorship
which is presently still forcing itself upon them.
Here
we are! faced with a group of selfish and uncontrollably greedy
fellows who would not hesitate to perform any kind of mean, debasing
and inhumane job before their dictator who tosses them around like
puppets.
Here
we are! with faced with a heap of mediocre administrators who impose
their mediocrity upon the masses having sent the whole country and
its resources and projects down the drain without any remorse because
they glory in keeping the masses in the dark.
Here
we are! faced with a bunch of deviant and morally debased criminals
who have committed all sorts of crimes against their people, from
controversial killings, to corruption, embezzlement, and what have
you. The sad list can go on and on.
Here
we are! faced with a regime for whom bloodshed is the order of the
day, in order to have their way, intimidation, murder and
controversy. A regime steeped in the blood of its own very citizens,
whom they are supposed to protect. A regime that thrives in evil and
wanton disregard for basic inalienable human rights.
Here
we are! Face to face with the LRC dictatorship, a bunch of blood
thirsty criminals who have sold out their consciences to the devil
and clinging tenaciously and desperately to power as if that were the
only thing, the only option in life left for them. Power, they say,
corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Here
we are! face to face with a regime specialized in all sorts of
hideous crimes against humanity, backed up a terrible magnitude of
lies, coercive techniques, elimination of political opponents under
cover of law. After all, they are successively specialized in
twisting and bending the law every time according to their secret
agendas and whims and caprices especially when they foresee that they
will be entrapped by the law. And therefore, this makes of their
laws, constitutions, decrees, injunctions etc., a set of Napoleonic
codes, capable of changing at any time and which become ridiculous to
follow, making a total mockery of the judicial system.
The
Language of War, Hate, Terrorism and Violence
We
begin this writeup with the following from the Parliamentarian,
Joseph Wirba, “IN
SHOCK AND IN TEARS!! MY DEAR PEOPLE OF WEST CAMEROON, they are
killing our people again! When I tell you, these people do not
believe we have blood,
some don't believe me. Look at carnage out here! These people will
eliminate us if we don't rise up like one man and stop them! They
hate us, they spite us, they will "take us out" if they
have their chance! We must stop them Now!
It
is time to take our Peaceful Resistance to a higher level. It is time
to let our oppressors know that we have had enough of killing,
jailing and maiming of our people!!
This
Commander in Bui has been known for his contemptuous treatment of our
people! He is known for saying that his orders come from the
presidency in Yaoundé, and for referring to our people as 'les
chiens Anglophone', meaning; 'Anglophone dogs'! Are we surprised he
just killed some 'dogs'?
My
people, our resolve and our preparedness must be strong!
Get
ready for the second phase of our resistance movement. We must stand
up to oppression and we must defeat oppression!!!
PLEASE
SHARE THIS TO THE WORLD!
Hon
WIRBA Joseph, signed and sealed with the blood of our fallen heroes”.
Remember,
that one ethnic group insisted and called the other “cockroaches”
in Rwanda and this led to the Rwandan Genocide – the most gruesome
in modern history, the scar from which Rwanda will never recover, no
matter the type and quality of solutions offered. I wonder if that
illiterate of a Commander in Bui, has ever availed himself the
opportunity of knowing that gruesome scenario from which a people has
never risen nor been genuinely reconciled. Genuine peace is
priceless.
The
Regime thugs, protagonists and evil apostles have deliberately
refused to represent the situation in its objective reality. And this
is how genocide and war begin. To show either their unwillingness to
tackle the real problems of the people, they have continuously and
stubbornly insisted that it is a language problem, and rather
attempting by all means to incite the Francophones against the
Southern
Cameroonians,
that it is a Francophone – Anglophone problem in order to denote
that Anglophones hate Francophones and have indoctrinated and incited
some weak minded French
Cameroonians
to react. Some
francophones, either out of ignorance, as usual, or blind obedience
of the useless system in place, have taken upon themselves to rise up
against Southern Cameroonians even without understanding why, or what
the problem of the Southern Cameroons is. What
would be the result if either the Francophones or the Anglophones
subscribe to such an evil label – of course, civil war and to whose
interest, that of these leaders who
would possessing foreign nationalities, would safely escape into
their safe havens in Europe and America and elsewhere in the world.
Here
we shall not hesitate, to identify individuals who have used
divisive, and hate language that normally brings civil war, hate,
terrorism and Violence. The LRC President Paul Biya, on the 31st
of December 2016, referred to the Anglophones as “extremist”. To
have labelled a people whose educational and legal systems, the
French speaking citizens including himself envy, is uncalled for, and
it only indicates his intensions when he nursed a genocide in his
official utterance. We often say in English give a dog a bad and hang
it. This probably should justify his tyrannical handling of the
crisis by using military action to repress peaceful protesters.
The
Governor of the South West Region, Okalia Bilai has on various
occasions used the following words, he first referred to Anglophones
as “boko haram” and later on as “dogs”. The same hate
language like his master. Mr. Issa Tchiroma Bakary, the LRC Minister
of Communication, has on several occasions referred to Anglophones
using the following terms, “secessionists”, “extremists”,
“terrorists” and more than enough public evidence exists with
videos of their various utterances. Among a myriad of press
conferences, he has offered to explain the government position, is
worth mentioning, the heart-rending lies, he publicly and shamelessly
rambled and mumbled in a confusive language he calls English and full
of extreme lies and conscious distortion of reality purposefully
geared at misleading international and national opinion. This was
after the butchery and mayhem of the 22nd
of September 2017 and especially, the 1st
of October 2017. He dared to praise the brutality of the bestial army
of repression they sent into Southern Cameroons. Be they reminded,
that such language is against international law, and that as Southern
Cameroonians have insisted and continue to insist, they are a
peace-loving people. This same LRC government spokesperson, has been
insistently talking of some imaginary group of “secessionists”
“armed with machetes and bombs” and in an open press conference
declared that LRC had killed some of the secessionist fighters. For
Minister Issa Tchiroma, to openly prefer and quote the complacent
letter of the President of the Episcopal Conference as against the
factual and frank declaration of the Bishops of Southern Cameroons
whom he shamelessly accused of taking sides with “terrorists”, is
to publicly attempt to sow division in the church, which makes of him
a veritable advocate of the devil and a dishonest “divide and rule”
strategies of the LRC government. Abundant evidence abounds, that
lots of lives lost in Southern Cameroons were those of harmless and
unarmed civilians who carried peace plants matching and shouting, “no
violence” to which the blood-thirsty military did not heed. The
profile of those killed does not in any way resemble fighters but of
peaceful protesters. It has been characteristic of LRC government to
frame up the anglophones, accusing them of arson, but it is clear
that the military of LRC is responsible for organizing and carrying
out these acts of arson, burning of Sacred Heart College Mankon and
the frame-up of arms being discovered in Mbengwi. Only the LRC
government can prove these allegations which accordingly are geared
towards justifying their repressive acts on the people of Southern
Cameroons. The language of terrorism, and others has only initiated
from their lips.
The
Military as their Instrument of Inciting Civil War and Genocide
To
further justify their actions, they have continued to deploy military
to perpetrate acts of arson, killings, genocide, rape, torture and
kidnaps. The social media is rife with videos of police and military
acts of atrocities, torture, killings and maltreatment of the people
of Southern Cameroons. The military has always been used by the
regime to perpetrate and crack down on the people as its torture and
repressive mechanism to suppress the people when they want to express
their rights to disagree with the regime. They have manipulated the
media, repressed the media and issued orders limiting media
reporting. They have continuously interrupted the internet in order
that the world should not see the terrible atrocities and genocide
being carried out by the police and the military.
The
Responsibility of Britain and France
During
the recent European Union meeting, the accusation by the German
minister upon France and Britain for being responsible for this mess
is well justified. Unfortunately, France cannot come in to fight
civilians and that is the reason why they keep a conspicuous silence.
They are to be held responsible for this mess happening in Southern
Cameroons and they keep silence as if that is none of their concerns.
Therefore, they have that moral and socio-political responsibility to
return in all honesty to restore what they left undone. Their
sadistic silence has been very preoccupying.
Other
Voices Worth Mentioning
The
United nations has cautioned the LRC government over its atrocities
over its own people. The insane dictator of Cameroon as usual has not
said a word, let alone respond to the many voices calling him to
order. The African Union has spoken. The Francophonie probably out of
shame, has spoken and other internationally reliable organisations.
REDAC (spelling) has written. The Bishops of the Bamenda
Ecclesiastical Province have written and now we are writing. The
intransigence of the LRC government is very disturbing both in the
national and international scenes given the fact that they are
signatories to very important and law-abiding treaties and
conventions that they have just ruptured in their endless repression
over the people of Southern Cameroons. The insane dictator, Paul
Biya, carefully teleguided by France, remains unperturbed in
Switzerland ruling his country at a delicate time like this, from a
distance as usual. The people as well as other well – intentioned
opinions cannot keep quiet and watch this genocide over a peaceful,
unarmed people and this massive bias and repression which the
government is unduly exercising over them.
Manipulating
the Press to Propagate this Violence and Hate Culture
The
government of LRC is using outmoded, ancient, and tyrannical methods
in this 21st
century to repress a people who are assuming their
self-determination. They are not just oppressing the people of
southern Cameroons, but repressing other media organs not to expose
the truth. They have been exposed beyond measure because in spite of
the internet shut-down with the complicity of the telecommunications
operators, gruesome images have been published and so they cannot
cover their crimes enough and so that is why the government
spokesperson, Issa Tchiroma can shamelessly lie and praise the
hideous crimes committed by the LRC regime on the very citizens they
are meant to protect. Needless, to mention that they have lost
legitimacy over the people of Southern Cameroons and instead of
looking for a solution to genuinely discuss the form of the state
that the people want, they still continue to manipulate the press,
and impress themselves upon the people who have rejected them.
Where
are the Corpses of the Dead LRC?
It
is reliably documented, that the LRC military killed and evacuated
the dead bodies of those whom they killed, some through helicopter
gun fire. Since 2016, when allegations of mass graves were rife in
Cameroon, the LRC government kept a conspicuous silence. Some of
those released from the prison in Kondengui reliably informed us of
recorded deaths amongst those ferried by them to Yaoundé prison. The
LRC government has still kept silent, not releasing everyone they
captured probably to give false hope to the remaining families that
their sons could be alive. The only aim they evacuated the dead
bodies of those killed was to cover, alter and wipe out the evidence
that they killed. It is clear, and we stand to be contradicted, that
the LRC government cannot give a complete and genuine account of
those missing due to their military atrocities and murder committed
on unarmed people of Southern Cameroons. The blood of human beings is
not the blood of animals and so the LRC government is presently being
charged for killing and hiding the corpses of those they killed and
they will be haunted by the dead. Again, a local Newspaper, published
an article, “Midnight burial uncovered in Mile 16 Buea. Allegations
are rife, of people having been arrested from Southern Cameroons and
carried in helicopters and dropped in foreign territories and regions
of the North of Cameroon, so that their dead bodies will never be
discovered. The basic question to the LRC government still remains,
where are the dead bodies of all those who were arrested, tortured
and killed by your military bandits? Can the LRC government ever give
a full account of such hideous crimes against its own citizens or can
they ever hope to repair the damage and the rupture they have caused
to the Cameroonian nation especially the territory of the Southern
Cameroons? If the findings of the UNHCR and other international
bodies and media organs proves these stories and allegations, right
what will the lying miserable slave of the LRC government, the
communication minister and spokesperson of the government say? Again,
if the allegations of Cameroon having used mercenaries from the
Chadian Army proves right, what will they say? Then they are in for a
good deal with the people of Southern Cameroons who will never again
have anything to do with this evil regime. Did we say that the former
government spokesperson lied (the famous “zero mort”), the
present spokesperson to say the least, seems to have been mandated by
Lucifer himself to consciously derail public and international
opinion about the ugly realities of the rubbish they call country?
Stop the Frame-Ups of Arms and Terrorism
It should be clear to any blind eye, that the killings of the Gendarmes, and other military people, the false allegations of having arrested some terrorists as separatists, the allegations of having retrieved arms, den guns, lances, in fact household articles in the names of having seized arms, like they did in Mbengwi are a continuous frame-up from the LRC government. It is ridiculous when you see both the profile of those they claim are terrorists, those arms they claim to have seized. All of these are clearly leading to what they know best, military force and we have gone passed that stage. We have to show our temerity in our decision and non-involvement in arms yet this does not mean that we have lost our right to self-defence. Therefore, the AGC and the ADF claims should have a total rethink since the evidence on the ground is rather showing LRC frame-ups.
God
is God, and God will still be God. “No Shaking” as our common
folks will say. Our target is BUEA and no one will distract us from it.
Mbiydzenyuy
David WANTANGWA
