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Ambazonian Collaboration Team, ACT has just concluded its latest fireside chat. One of the highlights was a submission from a prisoner of conscience.
The transcript follows:
ACT FIRESIDE CHAT 2023.
I will deliver my presentation in bullet points:
It has been a painstaking diplomatic walk and despite efforts to truncate it, ACT has remained consistent with its underpinning goal of driving the people of Ambazonia through mediation and negotiations. The work of ACT can be seen and felt by the blind and lame if only they are objective and true to cause. Cameroun has been through two pretalks with the people of Southern Cameroons and lost on both processes, mediated by the Swiss and Canada respectively. Team Ambazonia has been and is the custodian of mediation and the beacon of hope in terms of negotiations. Permit me use bullet points to share some thoughts on the state of our Liberation struggle vis a vis its ultimate end (mediation and negotiations).
1. Cameroun is facing defeat by Ambazonia and Africa
– For over 60 years and for the past 7 years particularly, La RĂ©publique du Cameroun is unable to deter the resolve of the people of Southern Cameroons, despite its subterfuge, lies, killings, maiming, manipulation, corruption, divide and rule tactics, incarceration, torture, massacre, displacement, dehumanization and abuse of the owners of the territory.
– Failed in two international processes ( Swiss and Canada).
– Failed in all its cosmetics solutions in the contraptions of commissions (bilingualism, DDR, reconstruction, house of chiefs and national dialogue etc).
– Southern Cameroons is still warming to get started where LRC stops. Them di joke. Where them.deh?
– The African revolution led by West Africa will catch up with them sooner than later. France will collapse with its puppets like Biya and Atanga Nji.
2. Collaboration still dire:.
Speaking with one voice remains imperative especially at this critical moment where African politics meets revolutionary realities. At this time when the Canadian process is plugging out. At this time when traitors received huge bounties to kill and sell their their own, at this time when there is fatigue among Ambalanders. Most significantly, at this time when La RĂ©publique du Cameroun approaches its inevitable political transition.
In my view, the one thing to fix is the IG. To fix this complex mechanism within our struggle; generosity, humility, candour and rationality are required for the stakeholders. Comrades Anu, Marianta and Sako must be willing while ultimately, Sesekou Ayuk must man responsibility and act immediately and accordingly. He must and should call the solution in. The IG needs a restart button and this can be pushed comprehensively by the author of the predicament, Sesekou. [I have a motion to propose to this effect if allowed to].
– The IG and Sesekou. Fix this and then collaboration will be easily achievable with other frontline movements. I dont see any other viable avenue out of this quagmire.
– ADF, APLC, SoCADEF and ARF: there is already some meaningful understanding and joint work among these forces. Mending their political entities would perfect collaboration among them… LRC will have no place to hide. They know this, this is why they invest a lot to divide us. This is why they plant agents among us. That is the scheme of their master, France.
3. Ripeness for mediation:
– stalemate; a mutual hurting stalemate is the yardstick by international standards. We have shown beyond the shadows of doubt that La RĂ©publique du Cameroun will need the Roman and Byzantine empires to defeat us militarily. However, as shown on the last Amnesty International report, we are basically in an armed violence predicament and not really war. War can’t co-exist with night clubs, foot ball games, wedding parties, diplomatic meetings and luxurious constructions. Hence, I opine that we must agree to decide on what truly we can meaningfully do. Lrc is ready to recruit, train and deploy 5000 mad frogs to Southern Cameroons every 6 months. We don’t have the luxury of losing our volunteer self-defense men, women, boys and girls. It is good to remind us that, we don’t have an army, what we have are volunteer freedom fighters giving their lives to free us in truth and justice.
I contend therefore that, we must invest our resources and energy in doing the needful. You can’t be at war with an enemy as brutal and heartless as La République du Cameroun then allow all supply routes into your territory open. To stop invasion and incursions on your territory, cut supply routes. I say, we indefinitely close our borders with LRC. In deed, stop transportation and commerce. This can’t be achieved by romancing and engaging love sentiments (our people will suffer), as though they were in paradise for the past 60 years. If we close those borders (Tiko stretch, mile 14-16, Matazim, and Sabongari) thus allowing exports and imports only with West Africa, LRC will suffocate. Blacklegs and traitors won’t have a place to hide. More so, food items will become very affordable for our people as farm produce will benefit them most. It is my believe that LRC will run to negotiate within the first 2 months of the implementation of this closure. If carefully planned, this is easy to enforce and effective in collapsing LRC authoritarian regime and colonial administration over the people of Ambazonia.
4. Humanitarian challenges:
– the situation in the jails is precarious. Not only do most of us lack the means to hire legal representation at colonial courts, POC barely eat, are into drugs, see no future, suffer from mal nutrition, diseases like cholera, typhoid, cough, malaria, skin infections, wounds, eye infection etc etc. It is my plea that our diaspora rethinks their negligence towards these men, women, boys and girls dying for them in these dungeons. Below are the numbers in jails:-
Approximation.
Our people are unaccounted for and are dying in cells and other detention centers like the genocide camp at Bafut airport, gendarmes, police, military and BIR camps all over Southern Cameroons and LRC not leaving out Nigeria.
Please my people, have pity on your conscience and help our people in incarceration.
– IDPs: our displaced persons still suffer on the streets of La RĂ©publique du Cameroun.
– Refugees: we hear most of them are now communicating with lrc as they get frustrated like the POC? This may be wrong, please correct me!
5. Recommendations:
Conclusion
A hurting Stalmate is the ripeness measure for mediation and real negotiations. Lrc won’t budge to anything but real economic sabotage. Transportation and commerce are the heart of invasion and imperialism. If you want to hurt and ridicule an oppressor, target those. Our people must make a choice among their bad options: a) remain in bondage or, b) close their borders indefinitely with everything they got. We can’t eat our cake and have it. We can’t be up against France and romance with emotion. This is a 60-year-old regime that has assimilated some of our people and employed them against us at this critical time. We must do the needful or remain in captivity. If we don’t collaborate and close those borders; our diaspora will remain in exile, most of us will die in these dungeons, our people who’s blood keeps running the streets of Ambaland would have died for nothing, the sacrifices we the incarcerated are making would have been for nothing. Not that Ambaland won’t be free because no matter what, it shall be, but I am afraid that our children will have to be the generation that will free the land, not ours. May God remove our difficulties and make our tasks easy
CLOSE THOSE BORDERS: STOP TRANSPORTATION AND COMMERCE.
The owners of the land know themselves.
Blessed 1st October, The Day Of Southern Cameroons Independence.
God bless you.
A voice from Prison
ACT, the Ambazonian Coalition Team, is holding a fireside chat this Saturday 30th September 2023 from 4pm Ambazonia time.
We the Ambazonians and friends and well wishers of Ambazonia are all warmly welcome to come and share.
Learn about ACT and how to contribute.
Be entertained by our artists.
Finally meet one of the British MPs who has been in our corner in this Ambazonian Liberation Struggle.
Our destiny is in our hands.
Ambazonia News comes to you with a mix of reassurance that La RĂ©publique du Cameroun is losing the war and the sad fact that, like the French did six decades ago as they “left” their African colonies, La RĂ©publique du Cameroun want to cause as much pain as possible, in the vain and futile hope of terrorising us. Sadly we have seen it all before and endured it all before, before deciding to draw the line.
This week Ambazonia has seen another hero bear the land with their blood. In that event La RĂ©publique has seen fit to remain true to type by “displaying” his body like the French and their collaborators used to do with the nationalist independence fighters in Cameroun and the other colonies. We know that the collaborators of those days are still in office, even if not in power, in La RĂ©publique du Cameroun so it is no surprise they are borrowing from what they did all those years ago. Nor is it a surprise in Ambazonia as they have done it for the last seven years.
They have shot and killed toddlers on their way to nursery school, toddlers who literally could not hurt a fly and that did not deter us the Ambazonians. How could it?
They have indiscriminately killed a village-ful of pregnant women, children and elderly. Did that deter us? Did they learn?
They have similarly displayed other heroes. Did that deter us, the Ambazonians? No. We no longer have to try and convince those fifth columnists called federalists as it is now up to them not only to explain why despite La RĂ©publique du Cameroun systematically intimidating their own citizens for merely using the word federation, they think that we the Ambazonians should engage in a fanciful debate about a federation with people who, as if to make certain, are employing the methods of their French mentors to underline the utter untenability of even the loosest association.
As painful as it is we the Ambazonians must stay focused on the Daring Move methods to actualise our independence and expel the illegal and forcible occupiers of our land.
La RĂ©publique du Cameroun is a country outside and separate from Ambazonia not because we the Ambazonians say but because international law does . They are only on our land because they have been able to get away with it in the past. No more. We know how to get them out and we must stay the course and get our nation back for our future generations. The grand children of our fallen heroes need to fare better than the children of Um or Roland or … They must be able to see schools and universities and libraries and parks and streets named after those forebears who bore the land with their blood.
The Most High God is the Watchman of our Nation and the guide to our ARF+.
Analysis on the Daring Move and other aspects of the Ambazonian Liberation Struggle.
What about the lives of those Ambazonians who are being bullied, and now even killed, while seeking a crust in the La RĂ©publique du Cameroun military?
A must for Amabzonians who want their voices heard as we seek ways to improve our collaboration. Please join the coordination team to brainstorm and map your ideas.
Ambazonian unity is desirable.
That is an understatement it would be difficult, if not impossible, to argue against that simple assertion for if one did, the follow up accusation would be that only those who don’t care about the suffering on ground zero would even dare to discuss the issue of Ambazonian unity.
And yet here we are in an information war, La RĂ©publique du Cameroun’s last throw of the dice in a desperate attempt to out-wait Ambazonians. The simple idea is that Ambazonians will grow wary and the Liberation Struggle would fizzle out.
When tackled by the international community, La RĂ©publique du Cameroun said Ambazonia was a disunited rabble so they did not know who to talk to. They then implied that they were dealing with a little local difficulty with a few malcontents and it would soon be sorted. When it was not sorted as quickly but kept getting worse, they stumbled on the idea of getting the “divided” Ambazonian factions to “argue among themselves” to demonstrate to the international community that Ambazonians were divided and that La RĂ©publique du Cameroun was right about not knowing who to speak to.
At the same juncture, whether instigated by La RĂ©publique du Cameroun or not, Federalists inserted themselves in between as the “would-be reasonable sensible” compromise, giving interviews in which they highlighted the futility of a fight that could not be won. With almost callous smugness one prominent federalist said they were waiting until the two extremists fought it to a stalemate and realised that they had to negotiate. Then, said he, the federalists would come in and negotiate a federation. At the time Ambazonia News had not come across the apparently established method of conflict resolution among the international community where it was common practice to wait for the warring parties to reach a mutually harmful stalemate or something equivalent. They actually have the acronym for it, MHS. That is a state where they both see that they cannot win and should negotiate. That makes sense when considered – for the neutral international community. But would we want to fight our struggle and then hand over to people who had calculatingly sat cross-armed waiting for enough of our people to die? Knowing that those people proposed to bargain with the people who had inflicted the genocidal acts on our people?
The latest manifestation of federalists is in the current spate of conferences where Ambazonians seem driven to “prove” their unity as it would speed up the Struggle. Nobody is saying how but it does make sense that if Ambazonian resources were pooled it could in fact speed up the Struggle. So will unity come? Does it need to come?
It would be “nice” for unity to come. Well, unity is already here, the unity of purpose that is not mentioned in the information war and which discounts federalists. Without federalists, there is no need to demonstrate unity of attempt to “attain” it, for it has been here all along and in the best self-manifesting form, cropping up every time it is needed!
In the Swiss process, even though it brought together diverse Ambazonian entities there was a unity of purpose in that they all wanted unconditional independence for Ambazonia and could describe themselves as “Ambazonian Independentists”. In Canada, the focus was even more stark, driving La RĂ©publique du Cameroun to fall back to the out-waiting position, committing the most unspoken diplomatic sin on the way out! They let Global Affairs Canada issue a communique on their role and hopes for the future of a facilitation process before coming right out through an official and unmistakable channel to basically call Canada “liars”. That time, unlike when they bailed out of the Swiss Process, they did not leave it to a minor remote figure from outside the circle to try to spin the defeat as a clever ruse by the nonagenarian dictator, but sent out the official communication minister!
Ambazonia 2 – 0 La RĂ©publique du Cameroun. Ambazonia Coalition Team (ACT) was batting for Ambazonia on both occasions – without requiring all its members to fold into one! Yet look how well we did!
Since that defeat there has been fevered activity in the “Ambazonian” camp to ignore that unity and seek to attain “unity”. Some actors have tried to gain the new “unity” by avoiding the word “Ambazonia” as they sought to be “inclusive”. Some have been unable to cope with their transparency, first designating themselves with “Southern Cameroons” then suddenly switching to “Ambazonia”. When challenged, some resort to references to the “unbearable suffering” of ground zero to divert attention.
Ambazonia News maintains that the reason true Ambazonians will stick to the Liberation Struggle even if people keep talking about “divisions” is that true Ambazonians are aware that the “unbearable suffering” of our citizens on ground zero cannot continue. The way we will stop it is through the unity we already have and that is our common instinctive unity of purpose which was not orchestrated through any resolutions of a conference but through the instinctive response of diverse Ambazonians who, on at least two occasions, told La RĂ©publique du Cameroun, in front of international witnesses, that it is over and our independence is for keeps.
Ambazonia News believes that conferences are useful for keeping in contact and exchanging ideas but urges all well-meaning attenders to be open-eyed when they attend so as not to be disappointed. The Ambazonian Liberation Struggle is not to achieve unity in conference resolutions. It is to actualise our legally existing and owned independence. As such all Ambazonians should be relaxed about our Nation belonging to us. It is no longer up for discussion. The shortest way for us to get it is to drive La RĂ©publique and her agents and allies out of our land – ourselves. That will prove that we are united and deserve our Nation. Conference resolutions will not compel La RĂ©publique du Cameroun to negotiate nor the international community to pressurize La RĂ©publique, which even if they did, could simply ignore and wait – try to out-wait us.
In a real way HCB 2892 tells us that we do not need to negotiate with La RĂ©publique du Cameroun as they are “illegally and forcibly occupying” our land after their secession in 1984 – a secession which also rendered it impossible for them to do anything on Ambazonians’ behalf, be it offering special status or negotiation or posting stooges in what they called Great National Dialogue. They do not even have the right to propose a referendum in Ambazonia, for want of that sovereignty!
Even if “unity” does not come from those initiatives, all true Ambazonians should seek out groups that dare and are willing to make Daring Moves and join hands in that single domain… Our country belongs to us and we have no apologies to make when it comes to our right to fund, fight and free it for our future generations.
The Most High God has always been the Watchman of Ambazonia.
The planning group of the Southern Cameroons Ambazonia Consultation has announced a new series of consultations to follow the August 2023 sessions.
Ambazonia News encourages all previous attendees to attend as they need to be consulted on the way forward to ensure a unity of purpose and outcome for all Ambazonian Independentists.
If you did not attend the first series it is vital to get involved otherwise your voice may not be heard.
Three new sessions are on offer on 9/9/23, 17/9/23 and 23/9/23. As usual there will be links to participate online nearer each session. Registering beforehand will greatly facilitate your experience. Ambazonia News tenders apologies for the late posting of the press release.
Read the whole press release here.
Since IG President Marianta Njomia signaled the Daring Move there has been noticeable daring on G0.
It is clear that we The Ambazonians must prove our readiness and ability to fund, fight and free and the Daring Move is the long term method to achieve our objectives.
As specified in the Executive Order which rechristened and renamed the ARF to ARF+ our liberation and self defense forces have better defined methods including ownership of their safety and local decisions in the immediate within the wider objectives of Daring Move: to target the economic interests and comfort of all La Republique du Cameroun allies and agents in Ambazonian territory. The fifth columnists are an urgent target though ARF+ stills own the immediate local target priority on the basis of their safety.
The IG maintains our appeal to international partners to come to the help of our civilian, notably children whose development is being impeded by the forceful and illegal occupation under which La Republique du Cameroun is imposing a deliberately substandard education on Ambazonian children. We endorse Community schools which will use and develop our own Ambazonian curriculum. The support we need from the international community is to enable safe zones around our Community schools.
The international community must not neglect the refugees currently enduring untold misery in neighbouring countries.
The Most High God remains the Watchman of our Nation and guide to the ARF+.
The Daring Move is underway since the second day of September 2023.
Our ARF+ are acting legally in defence of our separate and independent state.
We once more reject La Republique du Cameroun occupation and remind all international bodies that our consent cannot be presumed regardless of how many fifth columnists La Republique du Cameroun parades. They are not our representatives and do not represent our wishes.
The Most High God is our Watchman.
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