Ambazonia Unity – the myths and the reality

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 République 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 République 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 République du Cameroun was right about not knowing who to speak to.

At the same juncture, whether instigated by La République 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 République 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 République 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 République 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 République 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 République du Cameroun to negotiate nor the international community to pressurize La République, 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 République 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.