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The February 11 Washington Declaration
WASHINGTON, DC, 11 February 2018 – Six frontline Ambazonian liberation movements on Sunday in Washington, DC, launched a collaborative platform. The Ambazonia Recognition Collaborative Council (ARCC), as the platform is called, focuses on winning worldwide support for the recognition of the Republic of Ambazonia, formerly the United Nations British Trusteeship Territory of Southern Cameroons.
Approved at the end of the three-day Reboot Workshop held (9th – 11th February 2018) at the Catholic University of America, ARCC will galvanize worldwide sympathy, support and recognition for Ambazonia (Africa’s newest nation). It will build a more inclusive, tolerant, credible and legitimate transitional authority as Ambazonians continue their unstoppable march to Buea, capital of the soon-to-be fully liberated Ambazonia.
Ahead of the Reboot Workshop, participants visited Friday with some members of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Congress of the United States of America to draw their attention to the war crimes, atrocity crimes, crimes against humanity and crimes bordering on genocide perpetrated with impunity across Ambazonia by the annexationist regime of President Paul Biya.
On Sunday, ARCC called on the United Nations to demonstrate their commitment to international law, to the protection of refugees, political dissidents and asylum seekers. The international community must force Cameroon to return to the protection of the United Nations all Ambazonian leaders abducted last January in Abuja (Nigeria) and forcibly returned to Cameroon. Failure to reverse this rendition would be the immoral equivalent of returning to Rwanda those Tutsis who fled to safety during the 1994 Rwanda Genocide. Failure to return Comrade Sisiku AyukTabe & Co. to the protection of the United Nations would be the criminal equivalent of forcibly returning to Nazi Germany Jews who had successfully fled Hitler’s gas chambers during the Holocaust.
ARCC denounces, in the strongest terms, the indiscriminate targeting of peace-loving Ambazonians by the occupation forces of Colonial Cameroon (independent on the 1st of January 1960) across Southern Cameroons/Ambazonia (independent on the 1st of October 1961). ARCC members paid homage to the resilience of Ambazonians in the Homeland for remaining remarkably non-violent despite the blind crackdown marked by extrajudicial killings, point blank executions, enforced “disappearances” and a scorched earth policy that has internally displace hundreds of thousands of Ambazonians and forced over 60,000 to flee into refugee camps in Eastern Nigeria.
ARCC Member Organizations reiterated their appeal for the immediate and unconditional release of all Ambazonian political prisoners, inviting the Republic of Cameroon to refrain from further provoking our citizens with the organization in 2018 of a series of illegal colonial elections in Ambazonia. The Reboot Workshop also adopted a legal program in defense of detained Ambazonian prisoners of conscience.
ARCC committed to bring more support and relief to Ambazonian refugees in Nigeria. Through the Cameroon-Nigeria Friendship Network, AMBAZONIA RECOGNITION COLLABORATION COUNCIL (ARCC) ARCC commits to partner with the International Organization of Migration (IOM) to accelerate the transit from Nigeria to another country of as many Ambazonian refugees as possible. Ambazonians are no longer protected in Nigeria given risks of physical elimination during cross-border genocidal raids by Cameroonian forces.
Member Organizations of ARCC reminded the International Criminal Court (ICC) of their responsibility to document evidence of war and atrocity crimes unfolding in Ambazonia. They pledged to set up, over the coming weeks, a Commission of Inquiry to investigate the abductions and rendition of Ambazonian leaders and activists and to ensure that perpetrators – a complex ring of criminals - will be brought to book. To counter the propaganda campaign of shameless lies hatched and disseminated across the globe by Cameroon, the Reboot Workshop agreed to float shares for the setting up of Ambazonia’s first independent radio and television network due to launch in May 2018.
Member Organizations of ARCC also tabled a plan of action – known as the Campaign for the Recognition of Ambazonia (CARA) – whose objectives over the next ten months include proving to the international community that an overwhelming majority of Ambazonians are for peaceful separation from the failed “union” with the Republic of Cameroon. CARA is also aimed at ensuring that every Ambazonian becomes a oneperson “Campaign Manager” for a series of grassroots campaign events. CARA envisages the possibility of organizing ballots to allow the Sovereign People of Ambazonia to elect credible, legitimate and representative governance structure for themselves. ARCC is also calling on the international community to stop living in denial and instead to convene an inclusive and meaningful dialogue to resolve the crisis. That dialogue must provide the option – preferred by a majority of Ambazonians - to peacefully separate from the Republic of Cameroon.
It is denial to admit the harm done by scrapping federalism in 1972; the denial to see the injury caused by Yaounde reverting in 1984 to the name Republic of Cameroun; the 22-year-old denial to implement decentralization; the denial to heed the warnings from Buea Declaration (AACI) in 1993; the denial to accept federalism while it was still a popular option that culminated in outright calls for independence (Zero Option), first warned by the 1994 AAC II. ARCC reminds the international community that the solution to the unprecedented political chaos in Ambazonia can only be political – not military.
ARCC, meantime, calls on all Ambazonians to boycott any events organized by the colonialists from Yaounde, including this year’s so-called local, legislative, senatorial and presidential elections. Ambazonians have rejected the status of an annexed people and/or of second-class citizens in Colonial Cameroon and will no longer live as slaves in the land of our birth.
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The purported National Day celebration in Bamenda, the capital of the North West Region, Today the 11 th of February ,2018. Recapitulating the historical trajectories Of the event is so sickening and heart breaking because it has no bearing with the new name tag.
The 11 th of February, 1961 was a well sponsored and organized UN event that Was earmarked to grant independence To the defunct British Southern Cameroon's and British Northern Cameroon's. Unfortunately these plebiscites were a Contravention of the United Nations Resolution 1608 that had granted independence to the Southern Cameroon's Moving away from the trajectories Today's event was draped with fraud, deceit and manipulation which has Become the new identity of LA Republique Du Cameroun in The international scene and diplomacy The unelected Governors of the two Defaced State turned regions of LA Republique Du Cameroun had to ferry In kids at gun point to March at gun point Even the two state Universities marched At gun point ferried in buses by gun throttling scouts of LA Republique Du Cameroun.
The march pass in both the Northern and Southern Zones lasted barely for less than twenty minutes because there were Characterized by fear and uncertainty Recapitulating the youth day celebrations of the Yesteryears when the falsehood of A one and common destiny for Cameroon was still peddled and gulped down as truth until the false mask of brotherhood Fell off for the people of Southern Cameroon's to see the devil incarnate they had erroneously joined, fear got killed and the monster faced with all Furiousness and conviction that they People had but had to failed to use .
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Do we still want to say that there is no ANGLOPHONE problem and that only a few extremists who are manipulated by the diaspora are the ones disturbing the peace?
Do we still want to say that a few extremists have hijacked two regions for over 15 months now with no end in sight?
Do we want to say that things are stabilising now in the Anglophone regions because we want to please the international community so that elections will hold in Ambazonia?
What began on October 14th 2016 with the Anglophone lawyers and teachers strike has snowballed into a tsunami that will change the course of history forever.
For the second year on the situation has not changed nor will it change anytime soon.
The civil disobedience movements lead by Rosa Parks in the US, Nelson Mandela in SA changed the course of their history forever.
The so called youth day 2018 has again recorded massive boycott in many parts of Ambazonia territory with unabashed, unashamed disapproval. In some town's like Mundemba, there wasn't a single student on the field, only the TTC marched, in Bamenda, in spite of the ambulant students that were ferried from the Ouest like last year, the attendance figure was simply disturbing.
The same scenario was recorded in Njinikom, Widikum, Manyu where ghost did the marching in lieu of students in spite of reassurances and the bribe schemes that were put In place by the authorities.
In Buea we can estimate a 40-50% attendance despite all the efforts with a tense atmosphere and generalised fear. Few taxis plied the Buea roads today.
We don't seem to get tired of improvising. When then going gets really tough, even prisoners and hoodlums from the ghettos are used to replace students in a show of shame. The notion of ambulant mechsnisms isn't new as we usually employ ambulant voters during elections to vote in favour of the ruling party.
After all said and done, after all the killing, maiming, looting, arson, vandalism and military bravado, the problem persists.
For how long shall we continue to deny the truth?
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Six Cameroonian soldiers met their untimely death in a place called Hitawa, in the locality of Mayo Tsanaga, where close to 1200 displaced persons were recently resettled. The Boko Haram insurgency began in 2014 like a joke and gradually metamorphosed into a huge hurricane that has caused untold damage to Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon.
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Despite the odds and despite the unhealthy political terrain characterized by massive resignations from the CPDM, Cavaye Djibril reassures Paul Biya that all shall be fine. These reassurances are coming on the heels of the imminent announcement of a new political outfit called the Northern Coalition of Young Northerners. This new outfit Cavaye Djibril believes is made up of political amateurs with nothing to offer and therefore of no threat to the CPDM. Of equal importance is the threat of the MRC Party of Maurice Kamto, that is equally making some in roots into the North. Cavaye Djibril believes that MRC isn't any threat too to the party of the flame.
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There's one truth that, some Francophones don't want to admit: they are not patriotic. Since the decapitation of the historic party of East Cameroon, UPC by the French, Francophone Cameroonians can't think on their own.
All they do is seldom driven by endogenous forces but exogenous. Hear their current music: un et indivisible. Borrowed from France's 5th Republic constitution put in place by dictator, General Charles De Gaulle. Decentralization, stolen or copied from France again.
The lies that the UNC/CPDM regimes have marketed to Cameroonians has been that, Ahmadou Ahidjo and John Ngu Foncha were architects of unification. The truth is that, the man who sheepishly fought for unification was John Ngu Foncha. Ahidjo only came to Foumban, when he got assurances from Paris that, Southern Cameroonians have been sold out by Britain.
Finally, how many political parties in East Cameroon had the names of German Kamerun that they now so love? Non. By contrast, in West Cameroon you had a bewildering array of parties with reference to German Kamerun: KNC, KNDP and OK, to name just these few. Next time, when an ignorant, pretentious and most often naive Francophone refers to you an an Anglophone as a secessionist, ask the naive man or woman that he/she owes you an apology.
Finally, without the Anglophones, the recent constitutional court, for which their President has populated it with Francophones won't have been a reality. We fight and die,but they reap the benefits.
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