Most right-thinking Cameroonians know that the
comprador Biya regime dominated by ethno-fascists who are using the playbook of
the evil six-decade French-imposed system, which is directly responsible for
the deaths of close to a million Cameroonians is a cancer haunting Cameroon
and Cameroonians.
Pundits among these right-thinking Cameroonians know
that the Ambazonian Group that hijacked
— from the civic-nationalists (union-nationalists) and federalists in Anglophone Cameroon — the
cause to right the wrongs against, or redress the grievances of the people of
the former British Southern Cameroonians (former West Cameroon), began
their armed confrontation with the evil system in a thuggish manner.
By Ambazonian Group, I mean those who want to undo the
1961 reunification of the former British Southern Cameroons and the former
French Cameroun (the 1960-1961 La Republique du Cameroun) following the
February 11, 1961, plebiscite where 70% of voters in British Southern Cameroons
opted for the reunification path; by the Ambazonia Group, I mean the secessionists
or separatists who are mostly those and the heirs of those who were against
reunification in the 1961 plebiscite that brought about the geopolitical remerging of most of the lands of the former German Kamerun.
The critical analysts among these pundits that have been outspoken about the regime’s bloody methods, and that are concerned about the rapid metamorphosis of the hooliganism of Ambazonian forces into something deadlier and more anti-people — TERRORISM — were afraid that the growing blood-thirstiness and sense of impunity among some in the Ambazonian forces; the Ambazonian leadership’s lack of maturity in denouncing its claimed ROGUE ELEMENTS, in disciplining them and in being apologetic to the civilian population affected by their deadly actions, could make the Ambazonian project another cancer in the noble and deeply traumatized Cameroonian soul.
It is about time:
·
the AMBAZONIAN LEADERSHIP comes out, condemns and put
a stop to its supposedly “ROGUE
ELEMENTS” that commit/committed atrocities against civilians
·
the AMBAZONIAN LEADERSHIP states CATEGORICALLY,
UNEQUIVOCALLY and EMPHATICALLY that its forces would never target “CIVILIANS”
again, especially CHILDREN and
SCHOOL STAFF, and most especially SCHOOL CHILDREN.
As a matter of fact, a
growing number of critical analysts are beginning to consider or are already considering Ambazonian forces
as another CANCER haunting Cameroon and Cameroonians, and a curse blighting our
society west of the River Mungo in what are the Northwest and Southwest regions
of Cameroon.
My principal concern is for the overwhelming majority
of Cameroonians on both sides of the River Mungo, the people of the reunited
former German Kamerun that is today Cameroon, who are being haunted by the
national cancer that is the Biya regime and the French-imposed system that has
held Cameroon and Cameroonians hostage for the past six decades; my main
concern is more especially for the people of the Northwest and Southwest regions
that are doubly afflicted by the Biya regime/system, and the malignancy of Ambazonian forces who in their
ANTI-PEOPLE actions are exhibiting abnormalities that are characteristic of
cancer on society.
And what has also been observed is that while the
Biya regime appears to be making an effort to coat if not mitigate its state
terrorism, especially in its utterances, the different Ambazonian Forces have
increased their brazenness, to the point where one faction that accuses the
other of carrying out the October 20, 2020, Kumba School Attack that left more than half a dozen
schoolchildren dead, has the chutzpah to threaten the lives of Anglophone Pan-Cameroonian
politicians who besides condemning the attack, chided the collective Ambazonian
organization for the errors of their ways. Such threats tell us that the impulse to commit acts of terrorism spreads across the different Ambazonia factions,
and that there are some in the Ambazonia leadership who do not find the prospect
of a conflict between “Ambazonians” and the of rest Anglophone Cameroonians or the
population in the Northwest and Southwest regions as something scary if not horrifying.
The focus of Cameroonians, especially its genuine
patriots, is to set off a process that would found “THE NEW CAMEROON” by dismantling
the anachronistic French-imposed system, redressing the grievances of
Cameroon’s different stakeholders and putting in place an efficient framework
within which the interests, security, development, prosperity, and dignity of
Cameroonians would be guaranteed and safeguarded.
By genuine patriots, I mean those and the heirs of
those who participated in the struggle
or campaign for the reunification and independence of the territories of
the former German Kamerun, those who cherish the ideals of Cameroon's true heroes; I mean those who abhor the fact that the country is being held hostage
by those and the heirs of those who did not participate or support the cause
for the country’s reunification and independence (the minority-rule Ahidjo/Biya
regimes that was/were given power by usurper France, and the anti-
reunificationists who voted to join Nigeria in the 1961 plebiscite in British
Southern Cameroons).
I am using the words genuine patriots because the beneficiaries of the Biya regime and the
anti-Cameroonian French-imposed system who are parasitic on Cameroon, the
compradors who are in power against the wishes of the overwhelming majority of
Cameroonians, and who were put and are being maintained in power by the imperialistic French political
establishment (responsible for crushing
Cameroonian patriots that it cornered into picking up arms to defend the cause for Cameroon’s
reunification and independence in the 1950s and 1960s) are now usurping the
adjective “CAMEROONIAN PATRIOTS”. They
have wrapped themselves with the Cameroonian flag and are presenting
themselves as the force trying to keep Cameroon together, when in reality they baited and cornered “AMBAZONIANS” (the Anglophone Cameroonians who voted or are
the heirs of those who voted for reunification with Nigeria and against reunification
with the former French Cameroun in the 1961 plebiscite in British Southern
Cameroons) into picking up arms after failing to redress the grievances of the
English-speaking part of Cameroon.
We find today that Cameroon is a country possessed by these
so-called patriots of the system, PSEUDO-PATRIOTS or ZOMBIE-PATRIOTS whose
ethno-fascism is coated in a twisted form of HATE-DRIVEN-NATIONALISM that sustains
its strength by tapping the collaboration of individuals in other groups in Cameroon based on
individual interests, and not on the COLLECTIVE CAMEROONIAN INTERESTS, the national interest that every country with a sense of direction cannot do without. The Pseudo-Patriots are parasitic on Cameroon and are prepared to pay any price to cling to power to the point of making Cameroon a failed state.
There is no humanly acceptable rationale for the continued existence of the Biya regime, the
“Ambazonia Project”, the support of the foreign powers that backed the anachronistic
system for the sake of “FIGHTING COMMUNISM” during the COLD WAR. These great
democracies must not continue to be part of Cameroon’s problems, but should
rather transform themselves into part of Cameroon’s solution by not only acknowledging
the fact that their favorites in Cameroon are leading Cameroonians down the
road of dehumanization, but by also heeding the fact that their puppets in power in Cameroon are leading the Cameroonian people and Cameroon into the abyss.
Even as Cameroonians call on the foreign powers to
place their loyalty to the Cameroonian people, the vast majority of whom reject
the Biya regime and the system put in
place by France in 1956, they are also repulsed by the atrocities and barbarity of the armed groups in Cameroon,
and are dismayed by Cameroon’s “Establishment
Politicians” and “so-called Opposition” who after having convinced themselves that they don't have what it takes to confront the entrenched interests that do not want the
“NEW CAMEROON” to be born, now make
politicking a business, thereby contributing to the moribund system in the country that many fondly call "Africa in Miniature" and/or the "Microcosm of Africa".
It is true that Cameroon is a
messed-up country, messed up by internal factors, but more especially by the
legacy of colonialism, partition, the cold-war, fascism, imperialism,
neocolonialism, geopolitics and perhaps even more. That is why the “GREAT
DEMOCRACIES “ of the West who cannot absolve themselves of their fair share of blame in the Cameroon quagmire,
have the moral responsibility to work
with the progressive forces of the land to set up a time table that would “DISMANTLE THE ANACHRONISTIC ETHNO-FASCIST
SYSTEM” before the end of 2021 and establish “THE NEW CAMEROON” that would be
the perfect reflection of the 28 Fundamental Principles of the
United States of America’s Founding Fathers, especially the principle which
states that “All mankind were created
equal.”, by which those great minds meant that all mankind are
theoretically treated as:
·
Equal before God.
·
Equal before the law.
·
Equal in their rights.
Cameroon and Cameroonians do not deserve their current
plight. The land that embodied the best of the African spirit in the first half
of the twentieth century, that has exhibited African serenity for a century
now, must not continue to suffer the double
whammy of imperialism — the loss of more than half a million lives in the cause
for reunification and independence of the territories from the partitioned German
Kamerun at the hands of France in collaboration
with the puppets it handed power over to in 1960, and today the loss of thousands of
Cameroonian lives from an avoidable conflict triggered by the system France has
been maintaining in the country since then, and by the heirs of the minority in Anglophone
Cameroon that were and are against the reunification of the territories of the
former German Kamerun.
I hope Cameroon and Cameroonians are not being punished for
reuniting by foreign interests using
those Cameroonians who did not and never really cherished its
reunification --- the Ambazonian forces and the system that has been running the country for over six decades (France and its puppets)?
Janvier Tchouteu
October 30, 2020
Janvier
Tchouteu is the author of Triple
Agent, Double Cross
