For the first time in history since our parents voted in good faith on 11th February 1961 to join an independent country called La Republique du Cameroun based on some terms which were never materialized as BaretaNews writes, the people of former British Southern Cameroons have succeeded today February 11th 2017, 56 years after in completely puncturing the 11th February plebiscite day. History will record this generation as those who sever the links with 11th February. It is important to feel good that our parents gone before us marked with the sign of faith shall be happy with us.
Reports from Southern Cameroons say from the Northern to the Southern zones in Southern Cameroons, all communities and cities were dead. No activity were taking place. Our people stayed indoors. There was no celebration of whatsoever.
However, La Republique Du Cameroun still managed to stage-manage a show in Bamenda and Buea though very timidly with very few minutes of action. We are told that we could only see floods of military parading the empty streets of Southern Cameroons as no one could be seen. Colonial administrators and some southern Cameroons slaves elites are said to have hired some francophones who march past in few areas such as Bamenda and Buea so as to sabotage the peoples struggle. BaretaNews can confirmed all Southern Cameroonians stayed home.
The civil resistance is real. Meanwhile, in Pamol Plantation in Lobe, our correspondence says three vehicles stationed in front of the mill to transport workers stayed there empty. All workers were home and none went ahead.
Reports from Akwaya says the Akwaya grandstand was been burnt down because the Divisional Officer (DO) paid some illiterates who attempted to march but it failed. While BaretaNews condemns the actions of the DO for provoking the people, we also call on our people everywhere to not destroy our institutions and infrastructures. We need these buildings. Our people should please show maximum restraint.
Also, it should be noted that Buea did not betray the struggle as some reports claimed. They are with us 200 percent. Whatever images came out from Buea grandstand were all hired francophones from Douala and Police Mutengene college who were paid to march. Most could be seen with bare head (korobo in pidgin English) marching as University of Buea Students. Buea stood tall and they have been observing the ghost towns. The same scenario was true in any other areas images might have been displaced over crooked crtv. In Bamenda, the governor brought in hired pupils from his village and in neighbouring Baffousam to march. Southern Cameroonians boycotted and destroyed 11th February once and for all.
It should be recalled that this call to boycott the 11th February was made by the Cameroon Anglophone Civil Society Consortium whose leaders most of which are presently under detention since January 17th in La Republique jails. The interim leaders Mark Bareta and Tapang Ivo galvanised and rally the entire people of Southern Cameroons in achieving this objective.
In other related news, BaretaNews correspondence in Bali writes “.There is a complete failure in Bali. 21 persons were on the grandstand: We had no Fon, no Deputy Mayor, no Priest, no sound system. The D.O left the grandstand 15 minutes after the shabby ceremony.It becomes interesting as over 1000 youths invaded the ceremonial ground singing liberation songs.THEY SUCCEEDED TO HOIST the Southern Cameroons flag on the grandstand. As we write there is a total confrontation between gendarmes and the youths. There are gunshots and tear gas. No injury reported yet. Few have been arrested…”
Our correspondence also added some updates to the Ndop scenario which has led to two dead and scores of Ndop denizens being arrested. He wrote “..Some unknown persons have abducted children and wives of military personnel and have taken them to unknown destinations. They have been sending messages to thé authorities saying; give our people and we give yours. Also, our correspondence says the Fon whereabout is still not known. Meanwhile, he has been given 48 hours to make a statement or be dethroned…”
We of BaretaNews would want to categorically condemn such acts. Though we understand the anger of the people; children, wives, and relatives of persons should never be abducted or made to suffer. We think there are ways to go about asking for the release of our people without doing what we accused our oppressors of doing. We hope the Ndop people acts swiftly in releasing these vulnerable children and wives. We also call on the government to release the people of Ndop to de-escalate the tensions
We know that the people of Southern Cameroons after observing a complete boycott of 11th February 2017 are expecting a complete change of strategy towards the ultimate goal of statehood restoration.
Stay tuned for updates.
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You guys are gradually turning into terrorists. Be careful. Don’t let the gorvenment de declare this council a terrorists group
Please, you are over-simplifying the term terrorism.
First, it is not a crime to want freedom
Second, who has committed acts of terrorism? La Republique or Southern Cameroons?
How would you classify the shutting down of internet services in all of Southern Cameroons?
How would explain the arrest, rape, false imprisonment of peaceful demonstrators?
How would you call the trial of a civil case by a military court?
How do you classify the present of military forces on the streets of Southern Cameroons, erection police blockades/barricades, the firing of deadly weapons at peaceful demonstrators?
Who is the terrorist here? Mr. Biya and Regime or Southern Cameroonians asking for what rightly belongs to them?
@Neba: The government already did. You remember Popo’s speech on 9th February evening. But what is the definition of being a terrorist? It is a person who is promoting or doing terror to reach solutions, not so? The consortium always denounced violence and it shall be. There will be only lasting solutions if there is a possebility of an fair dialogue. Yes we have to negotiate peaceful even with our worst enemy. Let humanity prevail and not surpression. The struggle continues.
Well done so far but I repeat, there is need to step up the game and change strategies as resources are dwindling. The biggest weakness of the strategy we have used so far is the lack of steam to hold on. Humans always break at some point. New strategies and new goals are in dire need.
Burn the midnight candle dear leaders of The Consortium. Remember with our limited resources compared to what the oppressor has we have to planned, double plan and think ahead of the oppressor.
Latest news just coming in: The Cameroon Cyber Force (CCF) has just brought down two websites run by the oppressor in protest against the internet blackout imposed on the people of Southern Cameroon. Screenshots of the hacked websites are posted on the CCF official twitter account as I write. From the screenshots, the two websites belong to MINEPAT and MINREX. The Cyber fighters further warn that Camtel and MTN are on their waiting list to be brought down should the internet not be reinstated in the territory of Southern Cameroon.
The CCF has sworn repeatedly to gradually cripple internet services because the government has chosen turn the internet into a luxury only available for the privileged citizens of French speaking Cameroon like all other social amenities.
Personally I think, these actions by the CCF show that if the current resistance and endurance of the oppressor’s weight doesn’t help, the people of Southern Cameroon will have no option but to fight back and let the oppressor have a taste of their own medicine.
Let the fight continue!
@Neba – no one with the name ‘Neba’ will be against our struggle. First of all, go brush up on your Englsh (“gorvenment de”), ok? And next, go read your history. We’re not making this stuff up. La Republique du Cameroun annexed Southern Cameroons – Southern Cameroons never signed a document agreeing to this, compris? Ahidjo used the gun to force us into submission. How did Ahidjo end up? Heh? How? Tell Biya we will NOT GIVE UP! We want our freedom and we will resist until we get it!!!
when you call people extremist it means they have to pull you to the extreme so the struggle just stared. we will resist till the end and if they care they can continue to send their brutal gendarms ok but Biya should not forget that this is the plans of his enermies for him to decentralized the millitary before they act on the Nation Capital insider source. His detroner are very close to him less he forget
The Southern Cameroons issue needs to be ascertained among all Southern Cameroonians. Whether it be federation through the restoration of 1961 constitution or outright independence.
Either way, La Republique under the leadership of Biya is not willing to seat on the negotiating table.
Be reminded that federation has and will never be a french culture and the french are in no position to see a federation in Cameroon because that poses a clear challenge to their expropriation tactics in Cameroon and especially the Southern Cameroon rich regions…
Going forward, I predict an all-out demonstration by Southern Cameroonians based in Douala and Yaounde at the embassies and other international offices to press for their intervention in this matter…
Demonstrations and petitions are means to an end and not an end in themselves and I believe these tactics are soon running out of steam…
How long will ghost town continue to bear on the regime without inflicting pains on ourselves to a point of complete loss of enthusiasm to continue respecting that call?
We have to move to the next stage by asking all our legislative representatives to resign from La Republique assembly and come back home…
Their being there does not represent nor serve the interests of the people who elected them
The struggle continues…. time to rethink our strategy.
Thanks so much mr KAY KEMPES for that brilliant and strong talk. FEDERATION OR TOTAL INDEPENDENCE IS WHAT WE THE SOUTHERN CAMEROONIANS WANT. NOTHING ELSE.ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. THE STROUGLE CONTINUES