The office of the United Nations Resident coordinator stationed in Yaounde, Cameroun has released a statement on La Republique’s disguised humanitarian assistance plan. The statement released on June 22nd 2018 while diplomatically welcoming the gesture, the UN laid blames on the government’s footsteps as the key instigator as to why there’s a ”humanitarian situation” in the first place. In doing so, the UN has warned that civilians must not be targeted and they must be spared. In the current war in the Cameroons, it is very clear from all evidences to show how La Republique had targeted and currently targeting civilian population in what they have declared as terrorists
The document went further to clearly show how the United Nations resident coordinator, Allegra Baiocchi is concerned with the ”deteriorating situation” in Southern Cameroons (Ground Zero) and how the world body is boosting its presence in Ambazonia hotspots so as to provide assistance and protection for the displaced people, many of whom are in the bushes and thousands more seeking refuge in neighbouring Nigeria escaping the brutality of La Republique’s military.
With earlier calls to protect civilian lives and properties made by the United Nations’ Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, Ms. Baiocchi has joined in the chorus as she categorically stated that the rights of civilians should be respected. The UN, a month ago in United Nations Resolution had categorically stated that civilians are not targets and must be spared from the ongoing violence in the present Southern Cameroons-Cameroun conflict.
Aware that La Republique Du Cameroun government forces have been involved in killing civilians, destroying their homes, sending thousands to pushes, it is clear that the UN though somewhat welcoming the humanitarian gesture is warning La Republique from targeting civilians. We saw this over the weekend in Ekona, Southern zone of Southern Cameroons when La Republique military war machines were firing bullets at civilian homes as they moved along the stretch of the road ( https://www.bareta.news/colonial-forces-machine-guns-destroy-ambazonian/ ). In all instances, civilians have suffered huge casualties from the military. Just yesterday in Fundong, Northern zone of Southern Cameroons, Mah Ettiene, a father of three was gunned down by La Republique forces just beside his house ( https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10156590359082074&set=a.10152647980947074.1073741830.611107073&type=3 ) To La Republique, all able men now in Southern Cameroons are targets, a situation the UN has now condemned.
Whether the Yaounde government will heed the warnings of the United Nations resident coordinator remain to be seen. All other remarks from international institutions, foreign governments, and multinational organizations have fallen on deaf ears in the past.
Neba Benson,
BaretaNews Foreign Correspondent/Analyst
7 comments
pls mark kindly inform the ADF to be specific in their target they should attack but their enemy not the francophone civilians
lambi, a warning was given for them to leave , because their safety could not be guaranteed. If they chose to stay then the blames are on them.
@Tabot, so why complaining about genocide when you use civilians as human Shields? Anyway who is civilians and who is army? Don’t you think tou should make it easier for LRC army by wearing some uniforms? I think doing so will also help the non fighters.
@lambi you need to wake up!war is war anyone who is a threat must be eliminated,biya’s forces are killing Ambazonians indiscriminately,many francophones have been silence to denounce the brutal killings, maiming and burning of villages,many living in Ambazonia are lrc agents who do not abide to ghost towns,all SCs self defense must act according to information about roles of individual francophones in anglophone regions/communities,these people are not our friends during war declared by biya,they travel to and from Yaounde even during this revolution,SCs defense must have no sympathy to any traitors,black legs francophone /anglophones,SCs kindness, generosity and sympathetic attitude has aided french Cameroon soldiers to take advantage of them by abusing,killing freely and frightening then on a daily basis without a challenge for 58 years, why do able men and women not take up arms,defend their land and communities instead of running into bushes, Nigeria or complaining about what self defense groups are doing wrong,personally self defense groups should intensify their attack,causing chaos then the regime will start to see RED and feel the pain of their own atrocities inflicted to others, it was pathetic to watch a video where three lrc soldiers on a open truck were firing bullets indiscriminate on homes and there was not a single fire shot back at them in defense,how sad was that? why did some young men not able to take those lrc men down?
There is this sickening pattern with journalists, journalism and the news they publish. The tendency to exaggerate the headlines. “UN warns Cameroon: Civilians are not targets, Spare them”. This immediately conveys to the reader that Antonio Gutierrez himself or UN Security Council members, after an extraordinary meeting in New York on the genocide in southern Cameroon, has issued such a stern warning. It is so misleading and toothless, coming from a resident UN representative in Paul Biya’s Yaoundé who may have been bribed to issue this passive so called warning.
How much more effective can Allegra Baiocch’s warning be than Patricia Scotland, than Harriet Baldwin, or the ambassadors of the U S A, France and Britain who have alll made calls, albeit a lackluster one, for Biya to end his slaughtering mideeds in Ambazonia. Even the urging by the UN Secretary General last year that Biya should go back to the root cause of the Anglophone problem has fallen on deaf ears. But here we are with a big headline, “U N warns Cameroon…” I wish journalists would….. never mind, it’s ONLY. a wish.
No Sir, We Ambazonians are all civilians who are defending themselves using self defense as define by you own international law and natural laws.
We are fighting the colonizer, barbaric, satanic, demonic, inhumane, savage regime of LRC.
What will you do sir if someone come to burn you house, rape your daughter, steal your motherland? Will you say what your are saying?
There you have your answer, there is no civilians in the so called Ambazonia land. So let us stop talking about genocide. Anyone kill by LRC is legitimate target to include elderly and children. If the so called Ambazonia is a real country and the ADF is a true army, they need to get some uniforms and confront us. What a bunch of rats with hunting weapons.