Denis Atemnkeng (mis)Interprets Ambassador Nagy’s Comment on Ambazonia Liberation Struggle?

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22-08-2024
REACTION TO TIBOR NAGY COMMENTS ON RES. 1608(XV) 0F APRIL 21 1961

Denis Atemnkeng

I cannot tell what Ambassador Tibor Nagy was reacting to when he made his comments of 20 August 2024 saying that Res. 1608 is a false god. I thought we had long put behind us the idea of relying on Res. 1608. Are there still Ambazonians believing that Ambazonia can be freed through the implementation of Res. 1608? Who will implement it?

I had repeatedly rejected the idea of relying on the implementation of Res. 1608. My reasons were not because Res. 1608 is not important. Tibor Nagy has not also said that it is not important. The non-implementation of Res. 1608(XV) is the clearest proof of annexation, which is an international crime. My reasons are simple: To implement Res. 1608 involves too many issues that the UN cannot handle. For example, will Britain come back as administrator of the Southern Cameroons again? In other words, the Southern Cameroons must first resume its trusteeship status! That is an impossibility now. Ambazonia has no access to the ICJ, the only UN competent court to hear the matter; the UN has no mechanism to correct its own mistakes; the UN is not a body based on justice, but political manipulation and interests; if our matter went to the UN General Assembly, we will not be there to present our case when it is being discussed because we are not part of the UN; the UN is controlled by the Western world which is enjoying our stolen resources from LRC; Britain and France who connived to put us in this mess are UN Security members with all the powers they have to veto our matter, and so on. So as far as I am concerned, taking the matter to the UN is out of the question.

Ambassador Nagy suggested three ways by which we could have self-determination: a real referendum; defeating LRC in the battle field or LRC handing the territory back to Ambazonia. Amongst these three options, only the idea of referendum is sound. Ambazonia cannot currently defeat LRC in the battle field and LRC cannot hand back the territory.

Let us begin by understanding what we are dealing with: armed robbery; annexation, colonialism! LRC is an armed robber in Ambazonia. Nowhere in the world has colonialism voluntarily surrendered. It lives only on force, intimidation, bribery, buying of consciences and theft. That is exactly what LRC is doing.
The ways that are open for the resolution of this conflict as the following: (1) an internationally supervised referendum exclusively for the people of the Southern Cameroons; (2) Arbitration, where the two sides agree on a panel of international judges to hear their conflict, or refer the matter to the Court of Arbitration at the Hague, like Sudan and South Sudan did. These are the reasonable methods of ending this conflict. I have explained them in some detail in other papers.
Let me address the issue of referendum which some Ambazonians are still confused about. Some insist that only LRC should call for a referendum. I reject that idea. The reason is simple: we have a problem which needs a solution and our people are suffering the greater burden. Why should we not be the ones to show the solution that best resolves the conflict? By putting down a clear solution, we allow interested third parties to see the solution and put pressure on LRC to buy into it. We show the people of good faith and influence within LRC that there is a clear and reasonable solution. We show the Western world, which has pretended not to see the solution, that there is a solution they cannot deny. Remember: we must never assume that someone else is thinking about our problem more than ourselves. If we do not do so, we continue to hear stupid ideas such as special status, federation, brute force, all-inclusive dialogue and so on. The more we explain the solution that we believe can resolve the matter, the more adherents we will have to that solution. Who in the Western world will say that the voice of our people should not be heard in the search for a solution? Who will say that they believe in colonialism and illegal occupation of territory? Who will say that they believe in territorial theft? Anyone supporting LRC endorses all these evils, but it is for us to continually show this.

As colonialism is armed robbery which lives only by force, it can only yield to force, not reason. Colonialism never reasons! No colonial master has ever accepted that it will surrender. No colonial master ever began by accepting a referendum. They are only forced to accept it. They are only forced to surrender. Tibor Nagy failed to take this into account when he talks of LRC handing back the territory. Consequently, Ambazonia’s best bet is to focus on self-defense, GZ action. This must be more methodic than it has been. Serious self-defense will also do diplomacy for Ambazonia. Our diplomacy is limited to the Western world, which has double standards in its DNA. The Western world has called for justice, UN resolutions, international law and so on in the Ukraine war. But not once has it mentioned any of these words in the Ambazonian war! They don’t even bother to read our documents, because they are the law in this world.

Ambazonians, this is our liberation effort. No one will think about it better than ourselves, no matter who they may be. People should not take what Ambassador Nagy says as the Bible. We will be free. We should not delay it by misunderstanding. Let’s renew our effort to get to Buea sooner rather than later.

Ambazonian School Year 2024-25: Overcoming Challenges for Quality Education

Education is the first mass choice for Ambazonian parents.

The IG will seek consensus with other Independentists Entities to help Ambazonian parents to participate in setting up our education system.

We want a system we can trust and where effort and talent help all Ambazonian Children to fulfil their potential.

We want a predictable and equitable system where parents will expect no surprises when they turn up to the school gate with their children.

We expect some difficulty stemming from:

Initial lack of experience
Intimidation and influence-peddling by La République du Cameroun
Lack of faith that our system will truly be a move away from La République du Cameroun patronage and corruption framework.
Some initial lack of faith between independentist entities

These are the most predictable difficulties but, we expect to persist and convince parents and students that they can learn in a safe environment where only their effort is required to help them fulfil their potential – as an inevitable long-term goal.

We expect the sheer fulfilment of nurturing their children to encourage Ambazonian parents to make the system work. They will be supported to drive the social development of their children and youth and enjoy the self-satisfaction of making a difference at the crucial juncture when our country needs all of us.

We shall commit to work with all independentist entities to expand community education as a clear “vote with feet” all over Ambazonia to emancipate our communities.

We believe that the difficulties can be overcome by honest transparent adaptability which should allow us to refine and improve our system to meet our needs collectively, locally in each LGA, and further down to each school, teacher and pupil. We start from a sparse base but aim to improve week on week, month on month, year on year until adaptability and refinement become our norm in learning.

The School year 2024-5 shall kick off on 2/10/2024 and break for Christmas on 20/12/24.

Primary schools she be provided the interim Ambazonia Curriculum, available for download online. A limited number of hard copies shall also be available in each county.

One of the key duties of our schools shall be to ensure that our children learn a balanced account of our history.

The Second Term shall start on 6/1/2025 and break off on 11/4/25 for 2 weeks, returning for the Third Term on 28/4/25.

The year shall end on 18/7/2025…

Public Holidays: National Independence Day 1/10/2024
1st term: 2/10/24 to 20/12/24
2nd term: 6/1/25 to 11/4/25
Christmas: 25/12/24
Easter: 20/4/25
3rd term: 28/4/25 to 18/7/25

Interim Primary Curriculum Directed Subjects

American Basketball Player Honored with Camerounese Decoration: A Force for Change

The old man and the medal...missing the old man!

In this image an American basket ball player who won a gold medal at the recent Olympic games is being honoured with a Camerounese decoration.

In case the message is unclear, it says ” A Force of Change”… probably meaning “A Force for Change”.

A country, which had a bigger number of officials than athletes, typically trying to appropriate another country’s medals!

According to Camerounese law, even though Embiid, for that is he, was born in Cameroun, he now needs to apply for a visa to visit. While he is visiting, absentee dictator Biya has issued “high instructions” to honour him for the photo op! The poor chap could not decline the “honour” but what a message… Worth more than a million words!

As they don’t speak English in Cameroun, the minister is proudly posing , oblivious to the message!

Ambazonian News Update: Imminent Release of Ambazonian Curriculum

This day we share the preamble of the Ambazonian curriculum from the Department for Education and Strategic Collaboration, DESC.

The document outlines the rationale of the curriculum to three parties , focusing on the idea of moving on and taking Ambazonia’s destiny into Ambazonian hands.

It acknowledges there could be problems of inexperience but urges Ambazonians to embrace those as opportunities to grow and learn, looking forward to the satisfaction of self-determination and self-reliance in solving our own problems.

Ambazonian News is set and ready to publish the curriculum here as soon as it is issued by DESC.

Read it here:

The Ambazonian Curriculum – Taking our Destiny into our Hands.

The Ambazonian Liberation Struggle has been about messages.

The Curriculum is the biggest and most significant message and the next logical message to “move on”.

To the illegal occupiers, La République du Cameroun: Our Ambazonian Liberation Struggle is not a protest. It is a decisive break away to take control of our social, economic and political development, with no regard to/or ill-feelings for the evolution of our neighbour La République du Cameroun. They do not need to carry out any reforms one way or the other as they are utterly irrelevant to our proposed route to a prosperous future for our nation, Ambazonia. It is way past the days of any thought that colonial-French-style terrorist intimidation of our people is going to have any effect. That same intimidation has established for all doubters that the “reunification”, though well-intentioned was a resounding mistake, from which we draw our lessons and move on. Our fervent hope is that we eventually have cordial relations as neighbours but we will not lose any sleep to maintain an unbalanced disadvantageous and utterly harmful association. It is time to stop dangling mixed messages or suggesting that our two countries need to accommodate each other in any other ways than as neighbours. Our step into the future is not to defy purported law as there is no law or expectation that Ambazonia should be a supplicant of La République du Cameroun. Indeed, experience teaches the contrary and an honest appraisal by La République du Cameroun’s political leaders should lead them to the same conclusion – that they should stop the illegal occupation and withdraw to their established international borders, no honour lost on either side.

Of course we will ensure the safety of our children in our schools.

To our people: This is an opportunity for us to step into the light and look towards a brighter future where we will explore with excitement and anticipation, all the opportunities for development and discovery. We believe that we are the equal of any society on the planet and insist on equal opportunities to fulfil our potential and creativity. Our reward will be the satisfaction of knowing that we resolve our own problems and overcome obstacles with our own ingenuity and effort, regardless of the approval or disapproval of other equal members of the community of nations and peoples of the planet.

We do not need or expect the benediction of any other nation, only our deserved and fair opportunity like every nation and people. Our humility is not to be mistaken for inferiority.

We accept, and look forward to, challenges which will strengthen our nation and drive our ingenuity and creativity due to our urgent necessity.

We are proud of our success in standing up to La République du Cameroun’s intimidation and now make it clear that it is time to start building our nation and society in peace and tranquillity.

The current state of affairs between La République du Cameroun and Ambazonia dictates that only one conclusion – that Southern Cameroons’ Founding Fathers’ dream welcoming brothers was a romantic mistake, which has been compounded by the daily experience of each and every Southern Cameroons citizen under the La République du Cameroun hegemony in the last six decades.

Starting from our children, we need to turn the page to a normal beneficial society where all our efforts bring us positive rewards and benefit ourselves and our community fairly. We should be proud to exemplify the benefit and need for hard work and self-determination to our progeny, pointing towards the light of modernity and science as the way forward towards an outward looking society where they can travel the world with pride and self-confidence, secure in being able to say they are Ambazonian and only draw respect.

To the international community: Ambazonia is taking her place. Any nations of good will are welcome and appreciated to help us make fewer mistakes, but our destiny is our own and we will learn quickly and improve. The international community should play their part in ensuring the safety of our children in our schools in conformity with the norms, as they would for all other children on the planet.

Never has any country accepted security forces intentionally firing live rounds into school-run traffic under any circumstances. Though many other atrocities and genocidal crimes have been perpetrated during La République du Cameroun’s illegal occupation of our land, we reclaim the safety of our children to attend their places of learning with the same safety that is expected and accepted for all nations on our planet. We heard “Never Again” and it is not a phrase that needs to be repeated but implemented. We will not “give it chance” for we are already a blessed special people who have learned that our special status is not in the gift of any dictator but resides forever within us, each and every Ambazonian.

If a limb needs amputating, it is not positive, optimistic or rational to suggest a sticking plaster. Delays in dealing with the disease jeopardise the whole body.

Ambazonia belongs to us! Ambazonians’ problems are ours to solve. Ambazonians’ social, economic and political development are ours to ensure.