Media Release: Anglophone Consortium Condemns State Sponsored Terrorism, Extortion from Anglophones

The Cameroon Anglophone Civil Society Consortium is calling on both National and International opinion to witness an ongoing practice in the North West and South West regions whereby scores of people are arrested daily for no just cause and then forced to pay sums ranging between 500,000 and 1000,000  F CFA in order not to be carted to Yaounde for detention at the Kondengui Prison.
The situation has gotten so bad to the point that militants of the ruling CPDM Party are exploiting the open terror to settle scores with people who do not share their ideologies. These militants under the guise of working for government call the police and denounce innocent people for arrest.
As if that were not enough, some regime barons of French expression are now sending out provocative messages to the two regions saying
 "You people can cry and shout to the top of your voices, the UN, the British who offered you to us through France and the United States that has interests we are protecting will never come to your aid; but France will fight for us".
In the face of this escalating reign of terror, marked by a suspicious kind of silence from the International Community, the desperate people may soon be pushed by government's excessive terror, extortion and all other forms of provocation to defend themselves.
Right from its inception, the Consortium has preached and promoted non violent approaches to civil disobedience, believing strongly that peace has no price.

Our position has not changed, but circumstances on the ground may soon make our persistent calls for restraint hollow. We also hold this truth to be self evident, that the international community will not be in a position to claim ignorance on the ongoing genocide being perpetrated by Yaounde on anglophones in the Southern Cameroons.