...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
