Prof Fanso, Cameroons Top Historian has reacted To Mark Bareta Editorial published earlier today Titled: Of Southern Cameroons Struggle and Conditional Release.
He writes:
When Nelson Mandela was told in the 1980s that he would be released if he accepted to go on exile after he had been more than a quarter of a century in jail, he rejected the offer outright. He said it was better to die in jail than to run away or shut his mouth from talking about the struggle to free his people that had sent him to jail. When he was finally released with others unconditionally, it was victory for Black South Africans and all people struggling justly against all forms of relegation. He was immediately ranked with Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr as greatest champion of non-violent freedom fighter. That is what those arrested and detained over this crisis are. Yes Mark, if they accept conditional release, even with others detained for the same reason, it will be nothing but defeat. They know and the people behind them know that all of them in detention committed no crime in this struggle and should not be there. They should hold their heads high.
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Mark Bareta thanks Prof Fanso for coming in powerfully in this on going debate. The Southern Cameroons Must Be Free.
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I agree.
I thrust our people, I thrust our leaders.
There is the physical jail and nonphysical jails
( mental, psychological, spiritual and many many other categories of jails)
When it comes to our situation as Southern Cameroonians, the only difference between our people and leaders in the physical jails in LRC and the rest of us Southern Cameroonians is that we the rest, are one step behind them in the jailing process.
In other words we the rest are all in a jail but only of an non physical nature and I can tell you brothers and sister, we do not want to see the next level of this nonphysical jail. Thrust me it’s worse that any thing we can imagine.
Their conditional release automatically and forever puts all of us Southern Cameroonians including them our leaders and our UNBORN CHILDREN into perpetual bondage, into a nonphysical and psychological jail worse the the current one we are in. Remember, these LRC people call us Biafra, Boka Haram, Terrorist, Extremist and so on. This is not fun, we are dealing with a daemon.
Their conditional releases dose not taking them (our leaders) out for the physical jail back into the nonphysical jail the rest of us are in, instead it now take them (our leaders), us the rest and our not yet born children into a new and more worse nonphysical, mental and psychological jail that automatically will come in to being the moment they accept that demonic offer. It is a death trap masked as a peace offer.
We must be able to clearly differentiate between the physical and psychological dimensions and also the realities taking place in these dimensions. At this point, simply coming our of the physical jail is not the issue, how they come out is paramount and fundamental. This Struggle is way beyond the physical.
Brother and sisters, the devil operates only through tricks, lies, emotional manipulation, fear, … for that is all it can. Not 100 steps but 100 exactly right step in the right order, one right step in the false order and we are fried chickens.
Nelson Mandela and his people knew one thing, if he accepted that seemingly harmless offer they tried to tricked him with, he would have betrayed himself and condemned his people for ever. With courage and determination he rejected it, the rest we all know, thus knows exactly what is to be done.
Fully agreed!
Even the international community is for their unconditional release, therefore how could they dear to fail us and the international community. We are behind them, our proof is our effective ghost towns and our children not schooling. Our leaders have courage!
Greetings Mark… such freedom for our detained crusaders of our sovereignty is but a deliberate and united action of the centralised biya judiciary to read in between law textbooks in order to further restrain our freedom fighters from moving ahead. It is only going to fuel the flames of disgust and exacerbate our agony because such actors would act no more…