People from the Western Province of La Republique has joined the struggle in support of the people of Southern Cameroons. Though in their demands, they stand for a 10 state federation, we of BaretaNews thinks that this is a no go area. The Southern Cameroons is a sovereign state and only a restoration of their lost state will bring this matter to rest. However, any actions that get closer to sending Biya out is welcome. Below is a translated version of the text circulating in Bafoussam which appeared in the photo as well as reported by Equinox Tv.
“We the people of Grass field area support the Anglophone crisis and we, therefore, demand the application of the 1996 constitution notably the putting in place of the Constitutional and Regional councils. We, therefore, demand the implementation of decentralization or a ten (10) state federation. We also want to ask all investigative journalists, the civil society, all civil rights activists, human rights activists, consumer opinion leaders to support a sovereign people to kick out the dictatorial regime “dans la souce” in 2018. We also demand that all those arrested and detained in Yaounde be released. GIVE BACK OUR INTERNET.
We are calling on all that, beginning Monday April 3, 2017-GENERAL STRIKE for three days from now on, every week Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday Ghost towns. No crowd or gathering in front of the market. Stay home, market closed. Places will be open Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. By sealing/Closing our shops, they have certainly declared War and this is our response. People of this region lets wakeup as one people, as dynamic traders and say No to this anarchy..”
It should be recalled that as reported by Equinox, the Ghost towns in Bafoussam started this week effectively. However, it is yet to be seen how far the people from the West Region can go.
BaretaNews will keep you posted.
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The idea of Southern Cameroons entering into a federation with East Cameroun is a complete and total non starter. It is not what Southern Cameroonians want. What we want is for our independence to be restored so that we can live on our own terms as an independent sovereign nation state with membership in the United Nations and other international organizations. We want a liberal, democratic country in which people are free to express themselves openly without fear of retribution from an over bearing state; have a system of justice where habaes corpus is the norm, and where accused individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty, and in which we have a true multi party political system in which political parties engage in vigorous and robust competition for elective offices, and ideas are debated and contested to create and sustain an informed citizenry that politicians will be accountable to, and and will serve at the pleasure of the people. This will be totally and completely different from the East Cameroun system in every respect..
as copied “Helicopters and armoured cars are on their way. Aerial and land attack to be launched simultaneously from Kumba. Weaponry just left Douala and Intel hold that our boys can not withstand the fire power. Restoration forces along Buea -Kumba must take special note now.” Mark Bareta
Now you are asking your weak fighters to retreat to the bushes, who will defend the vulnerable and those who cannot flee? God helps you nothing should happen to anyone close to me, i’ll pick it up with you personally and legally in Europe. Jail is where you belong Mark Bareta, Let’s see how long you will continue to hide in belgium
Why do you big fool ‘homeboy’ care about our Restoration forces. Go care about your criminal assassin, biya and his evil gangster.
So these so called western province people don’t have their own problems?
They only see the need to strike in support of “anglophones”?? Who do they think they are fooling?
Southern Cameroonians are not interested in any form of federation with the LA Republique Fancaise du Cameroun.
We support them with all our hearts for it’s for their better good.
But someone tell them Southern Cameroon is not one of the ten. We don’t even have Northwest and Southwest anymore.
These Bafousam Province camrounians are some of the people I will shoot first when war starts.
These are Bamileke people who have infiltrated our country encouraging their true country people to do this on their behalf.
We shall seize all the prime real estates citizens of LRC have bought in Ambazonia along the beaches of Victoria, Molyko, Bamenda, etc.
We were never the same people and the so called 1996 constitution has no merit, as international law puts it that they illegally colonized us.
Truly, we are not part of their 10 provinces. Bafoussam is one of eight and they like their fellow bassa, yaounde, bertoua, hausa and douala people will need visas to enter our country, including their children who were illegally born in BSC/Ambazonia. We hate you all!!!
Our stomachs are full of bile, ready to spew out!
If you don’t believe us, wait and see!
Our destiny is in our hands and one gun shot will change the whole ball game.
Count us OUT fools!
I don’t think you are true southern/Cameroonian with this much hate, please take time out to understand who bamilekes are, for a starter, they are very industrious, they fought this very Government and paid dearly. The Anglophone struggle is not against a people but against a system of governing, They have adopted much better in the system than the Anglophones. I will suggest you redirect your discontent towards the right source. Remember ROWANDA.
@CKFRU, well said. The problem with these people here is serious lack of education and judgement. I was amused to read simeone mocking Foncha and suggesting his wife get trie for treason.
HAHAHAH DREAMER
I appreciate their effort to put La Republique military under stress. When we will start blockbyblock neighbourhoodbyneighbourhood, La republique military will not have enough human resources to contain us. We are a people recognized under international law. We are Southern Cameroonians/Ambazonians therefore, we are NOT interested in a form federation with La Republique du Cameroun period.
Their efforts is a good movr. But it’s for them not us #SC they shkd right right their own survival. But r far gone pass federation. This is Biya bending but it’s too late. #GameOver, how ever anything that pushes I ro promise land is good. We r in for #BlockByBlock #NeighborhoodByNeighborhood. This #SC MP’s need to stepdown & let politiking don’t drowned #SC agenda 4 complete restoration 2 federation. God Forbid! Cos wit #BlockByBlock probs shall arise & demonic,crookkeeet monster LRC govt in desperation to force amends will use this as a pretext example to instigate terror which we r already prepared for. Let’s diversify strategies focusing all our MP’s to pull bad by all cost. Cos Ewono FruNdi leak is at work though a good move but tactically ttricky&problematic 4 us months ahead. #LETSI
When we asked for federation the brutally suppressed us. They kidnapped our leaders to their country. Now they want to make a trial with their froncophone laws against Agbor Balla, Fontem Neba, Mancho Bibixi and our students. La Republique the time is over. We are going to restore our statehood.
All of our so called MPs shall be warned. Retreat from La Republique’s parliament immediately! Otherwise you will be seen and treated as traitors to the Southern Cameroonians struggle.
i think their opinion count,all is that we are not fighting against a set of people but against a system of governance,remember the history of the grasslanders also,we are one people
Dear Brothers and sisters. One thing I have learned with time and lecture is that your enemy’s enemy is your friend. Embracing and supporting their move gives us more weight to dismantle the system in place without changing or shifting our positions. So please let’s welcome it and use it rightly. One down seven to go.
We are not part of the LRC system and you can kiss the so called Grasslander thing a big goodbye. We are not anglophones. We are BSC aka Ambazonia. Anglophones are people who originated from LRC, settled in BSC/Ambazonia and speak English which is a foreign language (such as people from douala, bassa, yaounde, bamelike [including Dschang], bertoua and hausa. we Ambazonians some speak the following first languages: Bafut, Mankon, Mantung, Mukuru, Nso, Banyangi, Babanki, Bafaw, Bakweri, Bakossi, Balong, etc. Biya can keep doing his mother! I tell you what! LRC citizens enjoy living in a french colony, having one leader rule them for close to 40 years, having no laws, corruption everywhere. We are not the same people and it is against international law to subject us to a foreign dictator for 36 years an leaving in a french colony against our will, even though that is not our system of government. In Ambazonia, the government is not against or above the people, and military men or presidential guards assaulting civilians on the street or anywhere shall be rightfully arrested by police offices, read their miranda rights and sent to jail and face our fair legal system. The ungrateful citizens of LRC who are resident in Ambazonia have used their connections to their village/ethnic strong men in LRC government like Marcel Niat Njifenji to use and take advantage of Ambazonia and Ambazonian and we shall roll back the clock. Like it or not, we rightfully have a lot of scores to settle. As simple as that.
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
I am Bamileke aged 46.My parents born in the Southwest. My grandparents and my father buried in the Southwest. Because of my support of the Struggle and Rejection of 10 State Federation I have had messages threatening my life here in the UK just yesterday. I have clearly said that in the event of a War between la Republique my loyalties lie with the Southern Cameroons. Thats where I call home. I have been to the village of my grandparents ONCE IN 2010 to bury an uncle. I consider myself a South westerner having grown up in Kumba and Muyuka. In the event of a War between LRC and SC there is no question where my loyalty lies…with the SC.I will sell all my stuff here and enter Southern Cameroons via Nigeria and join my brothers in Fighting. I am a Certified Physician and I can take care of the wounded. Just yesterday at work I made a Captain of the Bristish Army mad showing him videos of the BIR…torturing SC citizen only because we are british Southern Cameroonians. The guy was shocked asked why is the world not talking about this. I have just placed an order for twenty copies of Dr Anyangwe’s book and John Percival book on the 1961 Referandum to distribute to 20 UK Mps beginning with my local MP in Essex. Now am I a true Southern Cameroonian or not ?
Dear people someone from LRC by origin who was born in BSC and believes in the same values as Southern Cameroonians and above all supports the struggle is one of ours!!!!!
Dr katte don’t be hurt by that! I expect you to understand that people have different conceptions on this issue. It will be the duty of the enlightened ones like you to make them know the truth. God bless your efforts, keep it up. God bless southern Cameroons.
A Southern Cameroonian whose parents gave birth to them in LRC is a Southnern Cameroon. If you don’t like your country, that is your problem. Don’t let the UK or American laws fool you. You can order a thousand bibles and you will be very lucky if we give you a green card. Why don’t you go tell the Igbos who were born in LRC that they are camerounians? Your mother! You cannot join our struggle because you will surely stab us in the back, naturally. Transfer.
@Atem this is type of mentality that has shifted the focus of this struggle to an arm conflict. That also explain why this country ambazonia shall only exist on social media. Boko haram has more experience than the so called ambazonia fighters, it took years but they have been wiped out, the same applies to the amba boys.
Dear Kenneth and others,as I said before I don’t believe in that tribalism thing. Its made to divide us. We do not invert injustice by doing injustice. And we shall not follow the devils way like in Rwanda. We Southern Cameroonians believe in peace and to solve problems in a peaceful manner. I encourage everybody in the struggle not to value a man or woman on her tribal background. What we want is a change of the system. And we are convinced in achieving that by separation from East Cameroun.
ALL OF OUR PARLIAMENTARIANS SHALL RETREAT FROM THE PARLIAMENT OF LRC IMMEDIATELY
Atem Bakia,
My God Mr Atem Bakia you don vex Oh! I do not know you personally but re-direct your anger at our oppressors. Do you know how many times I have been persecuted for being an “Anglofou” ? I have been rolled over in mud in 1991 by soldiers of La Republique when they saw an Anglophone firstname ” Kenneth” on my student ID. That is why I am as mad as hell seeing that these idiots WILL NEVER CHANGE when I saw the videos from Unibu.Your anger will not stop me from highlighting Injustice and human Rights violation in Southern Cameroons and to keep up doing my little bit in this struggle. We can win this without taking up arms…but if we have to, than I can only take up arms to protect those I consider my kinsmen and who accepted my grandparents as one of them…Muyuka people and by extension SOUTHERN CAMEROONIANS. Your anger will not change who I am. Until them remain blessed and God bless your mother.
Well,I have been reading,listening,following ,and still on the way.
All I will want us to note in this so call western province ghost time is:
1_La Republic’s another route to trick ,so lets be watchful.They have not yet opened the basket, linking the so call WProv.ghost town.
Besides we are not for any federatio ,I guess
These dumb asses called the people from the western region, DO THEY REALLY THINK THAT THE MUCH BLOOD SPILLED BY THE AMBAZONIA PEOPLE IS BEING WASTED FOR THEIR FUCKING 10 STATE FEDERATION SO THAT THEIR FRANCOPHONE PEOPLE CAN CONTINUE TO MAINTAIN THEIR PRIVILEGE STATUS OVER THE PEOPLE OF AMBAZONIA. YOU ALL MOTHERFUCKERS MUST BE OUT OF YOUR DUMB SENSES. AMBAZONIA PEOPLE DO NOT EVEN TRUST YOU THE BAMELEKE PEOPLE ANYWAY.
HI MY COUNTRY ALL CAMEROONIANS IN THIS LATFORM ;
THE NEWS THIS MORNING IS NOT GOOD BECAUSE IN CASE FIGHTERS KILL THIS MILITARY KINAPPED ANGLOPHONES IN BAMOUN WILL SUFFER TOO MUCH.WARNING WARNING; MY CONTACT CONFIRMED RIGHT NOW 6000 OURS BROTHERS STAY AND WORD THERE CLLING ‘BAMENDA ;MABILA …
PLEASE MY DEARS BROTHERS ; I BECK ALL WOUNA TO RELEASE HIM AND COME HOME TOGETHER WE WAIT DETAILS PROPOSED BY GOVERNMENT FOR FEDERALISM/REGIONALISM.
I AM FROM SW AND CAMEROONIAN
I am always balffle by the immaturity of some people who come here to wedge war behing the keyboard
saying who deserve to be loved and who deserve to be killed / chased away at the same time going around in europe seeking the white man’s help while dismissing your our black brother as being LRC of whatever
Nganang almost lost his life to come see for himself what was really happening in nw/sw , i ask myself what he thinks when he read this rubish you say here about people of his region .
what about the other thousand and millions of others who are supporting your fight ?.
You Know what , Good luck with your war .
Amba people do not need the support of (bami) sellouts. Were have they been all this time?
If they are doing this for Federalism, let them shove their assistance into their fucking dirty asses. Ambazonia people do not need either their support nor their sympathy.