Stop the Genocidal Violence before Cataclysmic Loss of Life – ARCC Warns the International Community

The Ambazonia Recognition Collaboration Council (ARCC), has recently alerted the international community on the need to take concrete and urgent actions to curb the ongoing war crimes, atrocities and genocidal violence, perpetuated by the colonial forces of La Republique du CameroUn, against the sovereign people and territory of Ambazonia. The ARCC leaders made this call last Sunday, February 25, 2018 in Washington DC (USA), amidst growing fears that the increasing violent conflict would result in cataclysmic loss of life.

According to the ARCC communiqué signed by one of its front line leaders Dr. Cho Ayaba, leader of the AGC, over 200 Southern Cameroonians have been slaughtered by Mr. Biya’s terrorist forces since the beginning of February, with their crime being the fact that they are English-speaking citizens and allegedly identify the Ambazonian independent movement.

“The senseless massacre which have continued unabated since October, 2016, include execution-style killings and beheading of civilians whose main crime stems from the fact that they are English-Speaking or are suspected of identifying themselves as Ambazonians. The ongoing group-targeted violence in Ambazonia shares the same seed of evil that ultimately led to the 1994 Rwanda Genocide.” The statement noted.

“As bad as it already is, the violence promises to get worse. The regime of Mr. Biya has deployed thousands of additional troops to Ambazonia where an increasing number of civilians arrested, tortured and put on mock trial have been lynched, summarily executed or, in some gruesome cases, beheaded or burnt alive. Photos and videos of the atrocities have been documented and widely disseminated on the internet by regime forces, as part of a campaign of fear designed to break the resolve of those campaigning for the break-up of present day Cameroon into two independent States.” They added.

ARCC further reminds the international community of the current spread of hate messages on both sides of the political divide (Ambazonians and LRC’ans), with soldiers of LRC spreading audios announcing the training and impending deployment of a killer squads to Ambazonia in late March, to indiscriminately kill civilians. On the other hand, Ambazonians are spreading audios of plans to launch attacks in other cities across in CameroUn, while urging Ambazonians in French cities to return home in order to avoid being victims of genocide. This reminder, according to ARCC is particularly directed to President Paul Kagame of Rwanda, who currently leads the African Union, and President Ernest Bai Koroma of Sierra Leon, the first African nation to recognise the Palestine Liberation Organization.

ARCC equally notes the cross razing of entire Ambazonian villages, cross-border genocide, trial of citizens in military tribunals and the handing over of long jail sentences to Ambazonian citizens through Kangaroo Court trials. All these repressive measures according to the revolutionary gentlemen, are not in anyway going to stop the resolve of Ambazonians from fighting to the end to get what they want – which is the total restoration of the independence of Ambazonia under the colonial occupation of LRC.

Describing as provocative, the decision of the SDF to filled in a Presidential candidate at a time when the majority of Ambazonians have vowed that there will be no elections in Ambazonia, ARCC warns the world that, the UN, African Union and the Commonwealth officials are to be blamed for the escalation and mass killings. These is because, the leaders of the UN and Commonwealth have all swallowed their tongues, since after making brief visits to the Cameroons, and have first hand information of what is happening. They also blame Britain, the former colonial master of Ambazonia, for the botched decolonization process, especially as the territory of was already self-governing in 1954 even before the independence of the territory.

In conclusion, ARCC, describe as laughable the adoption of a 10 State Federation by the SDF in its last convention, noting that, even the two States Federation, equal in Status prescribed by the UN, which was once accepted by Ambazonians, has become a nonstarter. ARCC, therefore “pledges to pursue the revolution until Ambazonia is recognized as Africa’s youngest sovereign nation.”

James Agbor, BaretaNews Political Analyst.