Collaboration is a corner stone of the Ambazonian Liberation Struggle. Be it Building Bridges between Diaspora stakeholders and GZ ARFs, Complementary Commitment to synchronise the various sacrifices and efforts of diaspora and GZ ARFs or other practical and obvious aspects of “having your brothers’ back”, it all seems common-sense when reflected on.
The last fortnight in Big Babanki [Kedjom Keku] provides a salutary, and possibly timely, lesson for reflection, especially as carpet bags are being unfurled in certain quarters in the vicinity of the Ambazonian Liberation Struggle. Instead of victimising the women enough for them to take to the streets to voice their upset, any ARF involved in “taxing” should have valued the fact that their survival on our whole territory is mainly thanks to the good will and sympathy of our citizens before applying the very intimidation tactics that the Enemy has failed with over more than six decades. Maybe it is worth outlining the collaboration that needs to be taking place on GZ.
The Restoration Forces need to be on survival terms such that each group knows that they all survive together and shares intelligence and support to back-up neighbouring groups, even if they are not “united”. They do not need to be united to know that their survival and success would be vastly improved by the their “having each others’ backs”. Enemy militias should never “surprise” any Ambazonia Restoration Forces again. Instead groups should routinely share and update live movement and locations of enemy forces, ensuring that if they are able engage, that the enemy does not have the freedom to roam our hills and valleys with relative impunity. Such intelligence sharing will be the sole property, ideally of the local GZ groups, who for the purposes need to know, for one thing, that strict control of its circulation would improve security.
Just as intelligence saves their lives, they should do all they can to ensure that our civilians never consider a choice between them and the enemy, but instead rely on their protection as citizens of Ambazonia. In the case of the Big Babanki tragedy, the enemy would never have had the daring to deploy in the village had the idiotic media not provided “evidence” of discord between the civilians and the ARF in the area. Whatever the actual truth of the media, the effect was that the enemy was afforded a window to deploy there by the mistakes of over pressurising the civilians then producing footage which was scarcely believable as anything other than enemy propaganda media. Ambazonia News still cannot “credit” the offending media as the work of genuine Restoration Forces.
To be clear: GZ Ambazonia Restoration Forces must make sure that they collaborate with the civilians for their mutual survival. The ARF must be able to answer in the affirmative the question whether our civilians’ encounters with them are better than their encounters with enemy forces. Whenever, rather if ever, the answer wavers from “yes”, the ARF must adjust as needed.
As our ARF continue to learn from experience we all continue to trust that The Most High God is the Watchman of our nation.
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