Below is the verbatim response from Denis Atemnkeng. judge for yourself and send your own comment.
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.
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