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This past ten days or more cris crossing the length and breath of the Southern Cameroon's, fighter has been raging from Kwakwa, Kombone, Mbonge, Bali,Mbengwi etc. The restoration forces of Southern Cameroon's have valiantly stood against the scouts of LA Republique Du Cameroun.
So many scouts have been slaughtered taking the regime aback, shocked and stupefied.
The regime declared war against the people of Southern Cameroon's because they thought that it was going to be as easy as good morning.
This hasn't been the case and won't ever be the case.
This morning, the attacks were raging from Mbengwi and Bali. Two security elements of LA Republique Du Cameroun were seriously wounded while thirteen BIR elements were killed in the Mbengwi attack on the BIR camp.
The attack on the Gendarmerie has led to a curfew imposed in Bali.
The entrance into Bali was cordoned off in the early hours of the morning and investigations are on going.
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The launch of the Manyu Solidarity Initiative last Saturday was heavily boycotted by the local population that is under siege by Biya's genocidal soldiers. The event was billed as a fundraiser but these elites who have been complacent with their deafening silence while their people are massacred, came with bags of rice as they usually do during CPDM campaign rallies. How would these crumbs from the Master's table bring back the dead, or rebuild the houses torched by Biya's marauding soldiers? The boycott galore was a message by Manyu people to these CPDM elites that: no man however great ever won judgment against his own people. Let them continue deceiving themselves.
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Chinese technicians are expected to start offering after sale services to beneficiaries of President Biya's controversial laptops later this month. The two state universities in Yaoundé have received 80,000 of the 500,000 laptops promised by Mr Biya in 2016.
The manager of the Chinese firm behind the fabrication is expected in Cameroon on Monday, reports have said.
The technicians will have to handle eventual problems with the computers as well as drill some students on how to be exploit them.
In the meantime several problems have been observed by some users of the laptops. Most people complain of bad chargers. Some students have sold theirs for as less as FCFA 15,000, which is far below the cost price, estimated at over FCFA 150,000.
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Cameroon's upper house of parliament is to be lodged at the premises of the Social and Economic Council in Yaoundé as early as the next ordinary session in March, Mutations newspaper has reported.
The Senate went operational in 2013. Previously the prestigious chamber of parliament was lodged at the Conference Centre. Later when renovation works began at the Conference Centre, the elitist institution was moved to the premises of the market regulation agency.
Cameroon's senate has been described by critics as a centre for old people, with the oldest member in his 90s. There are 100 senators, with 30 appointed by the head of state and the 70 others chosen by voters.
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On Friday, January 19, 2018, the Spokesman for the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), William Spindler, informed the world of Africa’s latest humanitarian tragedy, the refugee crisis in Southwest Cameroon. Speaking at a press briefing held at the UN Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Spindler told the world that more than ten thousand refugees(mostly women and children) had crossed the border from Cameroon to Nigeria and that “Thousands more are among the population of unregistered Cameroonians in neighbouring states.” The refugees are fleeing the murder, rape, abductions, torture and other atrocities of the army of Cameroon’s 84-year-old dictator, President Paul Biya, who has been in power for 35 years.
Spindler’s press conference will probably go down in history as the most ironical press conference of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, and of Switzerland. In effect, the humanitarian crisis the United Nations High Commission for Refugees was announcing to the world was masterminded and set in motion right under the nose of the UN, at the InterContinental Hotel in Geneva, Switzerland, a few blocks from the UN’s Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland.
Facts
Here are the facts: On October 1st, 2017, the oppressed and marginalized English-speaking or Anglophone region of Cameroon (population, 8 million) declared symbolic independence from the Republic of Cameroon after 56 years of marginalization, second-class citizenship and political repression. This was a desperate measure taken in response to President Paul Biya’s refusal to entertain calls for dialogue or change from striking lawyers, teachers, students and other civil society groups from the oppressed English-speaking community. Biya swiftly shut down the Internet, arrested, tortured, and jailed civilian lawyers, teacher, and students, and charged them at the Yaoundé military Tribunal, on trumped up offenses that carry the death penalty. Biya’s 35 years in power are marked by intransigence, inflexibility, and the elimination of political opponents.
Enter the Swiss Irony
It so happened that on that fateful day of the Anglophone symbolic declaration of independence in Cameroon, (October 1, 2017), President Paul Biya was staying at his favorite European resort, the InterContinental Hotel, 7-9 Chemin du Petit-Saconnex, Geneva, Switzerland. That is a stone’s throw from the United Nations Palais des Nations in Geneva. From the luxurious trappings of his Swiss presidential chalet, Biya ordered a bloody crackdown on unarmed civilian protesters in the English-speaking region of Cameroon.
Intercepted Military Logs from Cameroon
An intercepted and leaked military report sent to Biya in Geneva, Switzerland described how civilians were shot, and how helicopter gunships were used to fire fragmentation grenades on other unarmed civilians. The military report read in part:
[01/10 à 16:33] +237 99104845: Survol à basse altitude et largage des grenades F4 à partir des hélicos
Translation
[01/10 à 16:33] +237 99104845: Low altitude flight by helicopter gunships and dropping of F4 grenades [on unarmed civilians] from helicopters
(The telephone code: 237 is the country code for Cameroon. The rest is the military number from which the reports were sent to Biya in Switzerland).
Needless to say, hundreds of civilians were killed and buried in mass graves. That deadly helicopter and ground attack against civilians was the beginning of the refugee crisis in Cameroon that Mr. William Spindler, the Spokesman for the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) spoke about. Biya stayed in Switzerland until October 21, 2017, a period when scores of people were killed and thousands of refugees fled to Nigeria. The situation has worsened as a fledgling insurgency has killed soldiers and gendarmes in retaliation.
The question is whether the Swiss government, the European Union, and the United Nations knew about this humanitarian crisis BEFORE it began. The answer is affirmative. While the massacres were going on, a collective of English-speaking Cameroonians in the Diaspora wrote to the government of Switzerland, informing it that human rights violations were being planned and masterminded from its national territory. The European Union and the European Commissioner for Refugees was also informed, as were the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank. The InterContinental Hotel and the major Swiss newspapers were copied on these correspondences. All efforts to warn the media and the international community about this unfolding humanitarian tragedy fell mostly on deaf ears. To their credit, Reuters, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and Le Monde (France) published stories about the tragedy.
Swiss Government Response
When the Swiss government was alerted to the fact that President Biya was masterminding human rights violations and crimes against humanity from the InterContinental Hotel in Geneva, Switzerland (he stayed there roughly from September 25-October 21), a Swiss government official, Ambassador Anne Lugon-Moulin, Head of the Sub-Saharan Africa and Francophone Division of the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, acknowledged in a letter to Cameroon Anglophones that President Biya did indeed have lengthy stays in Geneva, Switzerland on private and official business. She did not deny that he and his entourage were in Geneva during the period of the massacres. There are reports that Biya is heading back to Switzerland for another long stay, as refugees from his country head to Nigeria. The question is whether the Swiss government, which is a self-described champion of human rights, will continue to allow the dictator, who undoubtedly represents lucrative business for InterContinental Hotel and Swiss banks, to spend long periods of time in Switzerland, while he orders his soldiers and henchmen to transform Cameroon into a hellhole.
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Marafa Ahmidou Yaya in a French speaking tabloid called for an alternation as the way forward in resolving this present sociopolitical impasse in Cameroon. Marafa Ahmidou Yaya, the one time second in command to Paul Biya, openly calls for alternating format of governance, so that the nation can appreciate an immense electoral year.
The former Minister of State for Territorial Administration and Decentralization called upon his compatriots to seize this golden opportunity offered by this year's Presidential elections. " I am inviting you on the contrary to have this opportunity and chance. The chance to make 2018, an important year for Cameroon.
An important year after many decades of wasted immobility and denouncements. It shouldn't be a year for the settlement of scores with the present regime. On the contrary, let us systematically put aside all democratic alternatives. It shall be a new era and a remarkable occasion for our Country" as written by Marafa Ahmidou Yaya on a French tabloid published on Thursday. Marafa Ahmidou Yaya the architect of the ugly system as the former Secretary General at the Presidency of the Republic of Cameroon.
The architect of the system condemns in very unequivocal terms the present sociopolitical climate in the North West and South West Regions of Cameroon since a year ago. Marafa Ahmidou Yaya equally regrets the trend of corruption that presently is so common in Cameroon.
It's regrettable that Cameroon now has an poverty rate that affects close to eight million Cameroonians.Of equal worry is the 50% unemployment rate in a country so abundantly blessed with human capital and natural resources. For recalculation, Marafa Ahmidou Yaya, a former dignitary of the present regime, was arrested in April 2012 and subsequently judged in September of the same year. He was slammed a twenty years imprisonment term at the Secretariat of State Defence, the headquarters of the Gendarmerie.
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