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Camerounese have done and are doing everything to fuel Anglophone consciousness. In spite of numerous calls from moderate Anglophone leaders for the “two Camerouns” to sit at the table to introspect and chart the way forward, there has been the mistaken belief by some fascist Camerounese that brute violence would do the trick. Till date, some are still under the illusion that sadism and killings are the unique option. SORRY!

One should have liked to see the oneness and indivisibility of Cameroun pragmatically. But truth be told, we see the opposite on a daily basis. What is all the worse, even official rhetoric has not been any helpful.

And so do we hear about “froidement assassinés” these days. When war was declared against Boko Haram, soldiers were either “tués” or “égorgés”. In the case of a war against Anglophones, Camerounese are unanimous that soldiers killing Anglophones are assassinated on the battlefield pursuant to a war they declared.

No-one needs to teach even a first degree imbecile that war means killing; and that there are inevitably casualties on both sides in every war. Under those circumstances, the term assassination is inappropriate generally; much less can it apply to any one side. An elementary notion of warfare is that you kill or you are killed: “kill or be killed” is the military jargon.

Those irrational attitudes only do drive moderate Anglophones into radicalism. And the situation gets more and more exacerbated by the apparent tacit official approval of private unhelpful utterances; and all the worse by official echoing.

It is regrettable that God gave us a land flowing with milk and honey; but we have, through greed and linguistic divide, transformed it into a land flowing with blood and beer. Yet in the hopeless expectation of escaping God’s wrath! Where “Thou shall not kill” has been repealed by a constitutional amendment!

Details: Ayah Paul Abine; 19.Dec.2017; Hits: 2842

Soldiers embarking at Egbekaw River in Mamfe on the perilous trip to Akwaya via Agborkem German to go and kill Manyu people. It is indeed a shame that these are the kinds of boats the regime is using to send its soldiers to their death in a place they don't even know. After 56 years of failed unification, the only way to get to Akwaya by road is through Nigeria, which cannot allow foreign soldiers into its territory as this amounts to a declaration of war; so they have to travel by boat....Let them come; we are waiting...the resistance just began.

Details: Ekinneh Agbaw-Ebai; 19.Dec.2017; Hits: 2528

The Cameroon's joined the Commonwealth Association of Nations in 1995 thanks to the historical trajectory of the Southern Cameroon's once being a British Trustee territory and thus the French speaking Cameroonians benefited enormously from this connection.
Today the billion dollar question that begs for an answer is " Why has the Commonwealth of Nations not dismissed LA Republique Du Cameroun from being a member of the Association despite the fact that she has rubbished all the tenets of the Association like good governance, equity and justice, tolerance, independence of the judiciary as well as a strong rejection of torture of every form.

LA Republique Du Cameroun is today littered everywhere with mass graves of Anglophones gruesomely murdered by beast tagged BIR as well as elements of the Presidential guards.
Extra judicial killing undermines the treaty of Rome ratified in 1968 and known as the Convention Against Torture, abbreviated CAT.
The scouts of LA Republique Du Cameroun fondly tagged as Soldiers are extremely stupid and poorly trained and poorly motivated.
Since they are the regimes hunting dogs, their training in the domain of respect for the fundamental human right isn't fundamental in their short and inconsequential training.
Instead they are told or instructed to maim, torture,rape, maim, incarcerate and kill Anglophones.
Why has the Commonwealth not sanctioned LA Republique Du Cameroun for the quantum number of innocent and unarmed civilians gruesomely murdered by state thugs under the guise of maintaining the territorial integrity of the nation.
How can two separate nations with two distinct territorial boundaries and maps internationally recognized become one and indivisible nation?
The facts are glaringly true that Francophones had wrongfully assumed that they had subjugated and assimilated the Anglophones.
The Commonwealth should summarily dismiss LA Republique Du Cameroun just like it did to Nigeria when Sani Abacha ordered the killing by hanging of eight ogoni people, including Ken Sara Wewa,the famous Nigerian play writer and poet. Zimbabwe equally was suspended from the Commonwealth and only readmitted after the fall of Robert Mugabe. Why can't LA Republique Du Cameroun be summarily dismissed,despite the heinous crimes and treatment meted on the Anglosaxon culture and on the Anglophone people of the Cameroon's?

Details: Rita Akana; 17.Dec.2017; Hits: 3074

I was born in the French-speaking part of this country[Cameroon] with terrible hate for English(a mere second language like Spanish, German). There were also these guys from Muyuka and Kumba who dressed strangely. Then came life at university with the “make quick, the restaurant is open”. That era when Ngoa-Ekelle[Unversity of YaoundeI] was a real thorn in the flesh of our brothers from the North West and South West. But for us [Francophones], everything was okay. There was absolutely no need to speak English. Summarily, even programmes in English on Radio Cameroun were boring. There wasn’t any TV channel in Cameroon by then. In fact, “I do so swear” during the swearing in of the head of state was a luxury. I was born on the good side of the Mungo[French Cameroon].

Details: Rita Akana; 24.Sep.2017; Hits: 3753

oday George Ewane the crooked CRTV correspondent who analyzed the empty speech that Biya read or presented to an empty Hall during the 72nd General Assembly, added and spiced that empty speech with lies telling and falsehood.
Everyone listened to that empty speech and it does not need any analysis as such.
Biya talked on Climate change and terrorism especially BoKo Haram.
For Ewane to have qualified the Anglophone crisis or better still the Southern Cameroon's case as Boko Haram is madness and sheer dishonesty on his part and lack of professional ethics.
The speech was void of the usual lie of Cameroon being one and indivisible. This lie can't hold water and can't survive the scan of truth but sheepishly George Ewane who has sacrificed truth for gastrointestinal journalism can't draw a clear line between falsehood and truth.
His like are plentiful in CRTV who have lied until the people now shun them.
George Ewane lied that President Paul Biya of LA Republique Du Cameroun attended the launch that President Donald Trump of the United States of America offered to African dignitaries and Head of states.
Today he addressed an empty Hall and hopefully CRTV will announce that it was a full Hall.

Details: Rita Akana; 23.Sep.2017; Hits: 4826

Upon taking over from Amadou Ahidjo in 1982, hopes of Cameroonians for a new era of social justice, fight against corruption, tribalism and the plethora of ills that beset 25 years of Ahidjo's reign of terror with Jean Forchive as commander were raised. Paul Biya then was believed for two reasons basically. He had climbed through the rungs of government to the premiership so he knew what needed fixing. His mantra of rigor and moralization sounded therefore believable. Talk is cheap. Little did Cameroonians know the apocalypse which was ahead today crystalized with the carnage reported from various towns and villages across Southern Cameroons.

The unique thing about African political systems is that presidents wield the power of life and death over their citizens. This enormous presidential power can be used as a force for good. Regrettably the likes of Biya have become roaring lions against their own people. Tell me how he isn't liable for the atrocious clampdown on unarmed, peaceful protesters. Isn't protests a culture of democracy Paul Biya himself boasted was advanced in the country? Don't anglophones have the right to question why in a union they freely joined they should be treated like pigs? And how did Biya respond? Massive arrest and illegal detentions under dubious pretexts and in sub human conditions. Today he shamelessly lectures the world on human rights abuses when his own backyard stinks.

Anglophones shall overcome. Oh deep in my hear I do believe anglophones shall overcome. To paraphrase US President Reagan, you can shoot and kill people but you can never kill a people's thirst for freedom. You cannot smash with tanks hunger for freedom.

Today the people who lost their lives for only saying discrimination against anglophones must end though dead will live forever. May their souls rest in peace.
Meanwhile since Mr Biya is commander in-chief of the armed forces, if he does not hold those trigger-happy thugs on killing spree today and in the past accountable, he is directly responsible. No one should have to die for protesting against institutional injustice. No one.