My dear friend,
I understand what it means to suffer persecution. I have suffered several times. Still, when you are persecuted, you should clearly identify who the enemies really are, and the reason or purpose of their persecution. In the case of Cameroon (Kamerun), it is not for the advancement of the country, it is for the defense of their theft or rape of Cameroon, so the persecutors should be treated as enemies of the people.
- Now, who are your enemies?
- Is it Francophones or the government in power---the Biya regime/establishment otherwise called the French-imposed system?
If you think it is Francophones, then you are a Francophobe and you are not being objective. You are not focusing your disappointment on the French neocolonialists who created the repressive system in Cameroon and their Cameroonian puppets managing it, Cameroonian politicians who played absolutely no role in the civic-nationalist struggle in the 1950s for French Cameroun's reunification and independence. These puppets of France soiled their hands with the blood of mostly Francophone Cameroonians in creating the police state that is Cameroon today. The majority of Francophones resent this police state and the system as a whole.
So you can understand why the majority of Francophones supported Fru Ndi (an Anglophone) to become president in 1992, but the Biya regime with many Anglophones in it (Achidi Achu as prime minister, for one), prevented John Fru Ndi from becoming president. Read carefully No: 3 of the article "HOW COMMITTED ARE WE IN THE STRUGGLE TO CHANGE THE PRESENT SYSTEM". Then you will understand why many Francophones who were staunchly behind the SDF of Fru Ndi believed they have been betrayed by those in the SDF who are now fighting for the Anglophone cause and consider them (Francophone SDF militants) as Francophone enemies. If you were ever in the SDF, then your group ruptured the broad consensus that once made the party great. It is the greatness of the struggle, the unifying purpose of our minds that I believe should be harnessed. And the ideal to harness is Kamerunian union-nationalism, a civic-nationalism that our Francophone forefathers fought for and lost close to a million lives for, and which our Anglophone forefathers stood for in the plebiscite that brought about the reunification of the former French Cameroun and British Southern Cameroons. It is the dream of reunification that I am working for. It was a noble and advanced dream and a model for an economically unified and politically integrated Africa.
So you can understand why the majority of Francophones supported Fru Ndi (an Anglophone) to become president in 1992, but the Biya regime with many Anglophones in it (Achidi Achu as prime minister, for one), prevented John Fru Ndi from becoming president. Read carefully No: 3 of the article "HOW COMMITTED ARE WE IN THE STRUGGLE TO CHANGE THE PRESENT SYSTEM". Then you will understand why many Francophones who were staunchly behind the SDF of Fru Ndi believed they have been betrayed by those in the SDF who are now fighting for the Anglophone cause and consider them (Francophone SDF militants) as Francophone enemies. If you were ever in the SDF, then your group ruptured the broad consensus that once made the party great. It is the greatness of the struggle, the unifying purpose of our minds that I believe should be harnessed. And the ideal to harness is Kamerunian union-nationalism, a civic-nationalism that our Francophone forefathers fought for and lost close to a million lives for, and which our Anglophone forefathers stood for in the plebiscite that brought about the reunification of the former French Cameroun and British Southern Cameroons. It is the dream of reunification that I am working for. It was a noble and advanced dream and a model for an economically unified and politically integrated Africa.
Have a nice day
Janvier Tchouteu
October 2004
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