The flag-burners elicit a sigh, or at worst a word of disapproval but no rancor from me. Despite everything, the Cameroonian flag-burners are misdirecting their feelings of frustration, anger or disappointment with a government, a system or political establishment that is bleeding Cameroon, sapping it of its creative and dynamic energy and dragging it into an abyss that I don't even want to imagine.
It is natural that those with an unflinching love for Cameroon would be horrified by the flag-burning, but those with a heart and a head for Cameroon are expected to get over their shock and direct their horror instead at the factors that triggered the flag-burning, which is the French-imposed system, an evil political establishment led by those who inherited power or are the successors of those who inherited power from France in 1960, people who played no role whatsoever---whether as moderates or radicals---in the great, patriotic and nationalist cause, in the century-old Cameroonian struggle to found the "New Cameroon", a heroic endeavor that culminated in the reunification of British Southern Cameroons and the former French Cameroun, a historic feat realized by the patriotic votes of the people West of the River Mungo and the blood and sweat of die-hard Cameroonian patriots of the East of the River Mungo who died in their hundreds of thousands for the independence and reunification cause.
The flag-burning is unacceptable all right, but whether we like it or not, it is an expression of the feelings of people who reject the police state that France and the usurpers it put in power in Cameroon created in order to impose their rule, a police state that more than 95% of Cameroonians reject, a police state that decimated the leadership of Cameroon's patriotic forces, created a culture of fear and double-talk, triggered a brain-brain, suppressed our creativity and dynamism, sowed the seeds of indifference, and bred a culture of corruption, distrust, division, ignorance and incomprehension.
Today, this police state, this political establishment of the ruling CPDM party and Cameroon's so-called opposition---Fru Ndi's SDF, Bello Bouba's UNDP, Ndam Njoya's CDU etc (two faces of the same coin in a masquerade to sustain the French-imposed system) has been sustaining a kleptocracy, a mafia political establishment that is the worst affront to any patriotic Cameroonian, as it pushes the Cameroonian people into acts that many consider irrational.
Do I distrust the flag-burners less than the establishment, the kleptocrats and the puppets that are not only sucking Cameroon dry but have equally rendered it into the arms of forces that have nothing good in mind for Cameroon?
Yes, I do.
The system can be dismantled before the end of the decade. All Cameroonians need are cooperation between the anti-system forces, an embracement and spread of the national idea, a relentless instillment of discipline within the ranks of the vanguards/advocates of change etc. etc...
We should have been able to identify the Enemies of the Cameroonian people by now. They are not (a) particular tribe(s), ethic-group(s), religion(s), region(s) etc… They are minorities from our midst (family, friends, ethnic groups, regions, provinces, religions). And unless we reject and mentally prepare ourselves to confront them, we would never free our land (village, town, province, region, country etc)
Who precisely are these enemies of the Cameroonian people. The 1994/1995 works “WHO THE ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE ARE AND HOW THEY ARE FIGHTING AGAINST CHANGE:”
and “HOW COMMITTED ARE CAMEROONIANS IN THE STRUGGLE TO CHANGE THE FRENCH-IMPOSED SYSTEM AND THE BIYA DICTATORSHIP”
provide an insight
All the best,
Janvier Tchouteu
Cameroon: France’s Dysfunctional Puppet System in Africa
by Janvier Tchouteu
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