Monday, October 4, 2010

THE DAWN OF AN UNAVOIDABLE TASK:

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When a government, regime or system loses the confidence of the people but  lacks the honor to bow out of the political scene even for a while, when  such an establishment discards all manifestations of honesty, respect of the  nation, accountability and patriotism and pursues a heartless, detached and  repressive path in order to maintain power that it cannot utilize for the  interest of the people; and more especially, when such a political clique  uses theft, fraud, terror, blackmail, fomentation of ethnic division and treason; then we all have to accept that the government, regime or system  has lost the human touch and is posing as a plague to the patriotic struggling masses. Such a rule is an affront to humanity. It has nothing progressive to offer.

The Biya regime, which is the custodian of the French-imposed system, is the worst affront to Cameroonians after more than four decades of bondage in a system Cameroonians never opted for and that is a follow up of more than a century of colonialism. Cameroonians paid a heavy price of about a million deaths to get rid of this system (the pre-1910 resistance, the unsuccessful Martin Paul Samba led liberation movement of 1910-1914, and the Ahidjo-French genocide against the struggling masses who supported the UPC in the 1956-1970 war of liberation against the French and puppet Ahidjo regime). Repression, suppression, despondence, brain drain, economic deprivation, underdevelopment and social degeneration are some of the heavy prices that
Cameroonians have been forced to pay for failing to liberate themselves. The French-imposed system has forced Cameroonians along a chaotic socio-economic and political path whose endemic corruption, nonchalance and unaccountability contradicts the inner values and dynamism of the Cameroonian people and poorly reflects the great potentials that our nation possesses. We have to get out of the years of incomprehension and self-deception by accepting that the absence of a program for the nation has left us decades behind the rest of the world, far below our expected level of development. Cameroon is failing to grow up because of the system in place.

That the machinery of the French-imposed system clogged years ago; that it is anachronistic and a hindrance to the nation’s progress and development; that the system is incapable of self-rejuvenation and authentic reform; that it has no alternative plan to prepare Cameroonians for the demands of the next century; that it is rotten to the core and lacks the basic sense of patriotism to prevent the complete decay of the nation along with it; and that it has shown to those who were predisposed to see and those who were not of its commitment to use fraud, theft, ethnic antagonism, terror, blackmail, sabotage, extortion and crimes against humanity draws open the most decisive stage in the third phase of the Cameroonian struggle.

Confronting us is the facade of a monstrous but rotten system that is posing as the obstacle to the ultimate revelation and realization of the great Cameroonian dream of freedom, liberty, unity, harmony, progress and integration with other progressive forces and nations of Africa and the world. This French-imposed system has kept us three decades behind our expected level of development. It would even take us ten years of a magical economic growth rate of 10% to enable us attain the 1984 standard of living.

The realization of such a fit is possible only through a fundamental overhaul of the system, build up of economic, political and social confidence, massive inflow of foreign capital and modern technology, all prerequisites for revival that can not be provided by the Biya regime which has caused a sixty percent drop in the people’s standard of living and the French-imposed system that is indirectly responsible.

To accept the continuation of the anachronistic system’s usurpation and the Biya regime’s retention of power is the acceptance of Cameroon’s suicide and a denial of a future for the second post independence generation of Cameroonians (our children). Such an option is unacceptable to the most victimized Cameroonians---The post independence generation. The weight of Cameroon’s liberation, the cure of its incomprehension, the formulation of its path to the future and the advancement of its citizens rest on the shoulders of this generation. It is a hard and merciless task, but the only salvation for Cameroon.

Yes, Cameroonians in their majority who constitute the struggling and patriotic masses have proven their maturity and manifested their love for a peaceful change by saying no to the system in the past five elections. Their pleas, implorations, protests and resistance against the fraud of the electoral system organized by a system that prevents the registration of seventy percent of the population and prevents half of the thirty percent of registered voters from casting their ballots have been met with state terrorism from the Biya regime.

It has been observed with clarity that the patriotic struggling masses are being denied the right to realize their dreams, which embodies the noble Cameroonian Dream of  Progress, economic development, social harmony, humanitarian socialism and advancement. Such a denial of their basic human rights is unacceptable after close to forty years of delay. We need a fundamental change that can enable us to catch up or even minimize the lost time in the race to progress. Any further retention of power by the usurper Biya regime and the anachronistic system it is upholding is acceptance of the transformation of our chronically sick nation into a terminal case. Faced by selfish resistance to the redemption of our potentially great nation, it has become our unavoidable task to get rid of the Biya regime and eradicate the system in order to prevent the demise of Cameroon. We have tried other options and failed. Nevertheless, we are still left with one path.

Now is the moment for Cameroonians to brandish the banner of our union nationalism and its extended fraternity of Pan-Africanism and with the loud cry of “Forward Match to the Future”, we should lead the struggling masses to realize their noble dreams, recover their stolen victories and reestablish their ties to the destiny of our nation. What we have in Cameroon are a multitude of political parties. We do not have democracy. Only a revolutionary vision can rebuild Cameroon and set it on the right path to the future. The union nationalists are the revolutionaries who honor the Cameroonian dream even in their different political parties, but who all share the unifying and patriotic vision for Cameroon. Now is the moment to rally behind the unifying banner of Cameroon’s union nationalism whose revolutionary cause calls for a total and fundamental change of the anachronistic French-imposed.


May 29, 1997                                                                              Janvier Tchouteu


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