Dispassionate news and opinion, fairly presented.
We give thanks and praises to the Most High God, the Watchman of Ambazonia.
Our dignity and identity grow by the year.
Ambazonia News wishes all Ambazonians Merry Christmas.
If you are one of those wearing our colours in your undergarments so far keep the faith, we are getting there! Next year we shall be able to proclaim our nationality with more and more dignity in front of all witnesses.
Daring Move was signaled by IG President Marianta in September.
In the immediate following time period there was an uptick in hostile nudges on the occupiers to leave our land.
The evidence shows that that uptick is continuing with widespread actions across most of Ambazonia.
The response from La Republique du Cameroun has been to activate and intensify the fifth column of people popularly known as “black legs”.
Our response to black legs is to sanction the right of ARF+ to prioritise their safety. One of the criteria for the Daring Move is that its integrity and effectiveness depends on the safety of our ARF+ and they will be backed under international law to ensure their safety at all cost, in order to ensure the effectiveness and success of the Daring Move.
Black legs constitute a legitimate target for being clear and present impediment to the Daring Move through their threats to the integrity and safety of the ARF+ and, thence, to our people and nation. The IG will back our ARF+ to protect our people and nation and themselves from the black legs.
To all black legs, whether you call yourself ‘elites’ or unionists, your time is up. You are no longer to approach or threaten any of our ARF. Neither are we tolerating any “advice” to go to DDR.
Beware our Nation Ambazonia is here to stay and our Self-defence forces have legal rights under our internationally recognized entitlement to self-defence from hostile and illegal occupation. Our external self-determination is enshrined and locked and our nation will deal with those threats on a war footing.
Black legs you are on notice that our ARF have orders and authorisation to protect the integrity of their legitimate operations in the name of protecting the dignity, lives and livelihoods of our citizens. Fraternising with the occupiers is enough of a crime for it offers them encouragement and comfort on our territory. Endangering or discouraging our forces is quite another level of treasonous and must be punishable.
The IG is reviewing and acting to protect the Daring Move by updating methods and ways of working through the interpretation of the newest data from initial outings.
We back our ARF to fly our flag on our land. “Black legs” beware. Your time is up!
The Most High God is the Watchman of our nation and ARF
IG to exercise Accountability and Action in APP meeting. All Ambazonian Independentists and friends of Ambazonia are invited to attend.
There seems no limit to the depths of La République du Cameroun’s crimes against Ambazonians.
The IG has once more been forced to call the international community’s attention to one more unspeakable and barbaric massacre in Manyu County.
The new entry in La République du Cameroun’s glossary of massacres in Ambazonia is Egbekaw village in Akwaya Local Government Area (LGA) of Manyu County in Ambazonia, where on November, 6th 2023, the latest one took place. This time it was the work of La République du Cameroun’s proxies but the responsibility still belongs with the genocidaires.
May their souls rest in peace.
Ambazonia needs you! The Daring move belongs to all Ambazonia including you!
If you missed the chance first time round, this is your opportunity to take the Daring Move further -save the date and add your faith and will to the Daring Move.
Only we the Ambazonians will fund, fight and free our land.
Here is some more about the Ambazonia Coalition Team (ACT) – better late than never!
How has Ambazonia News only just come by this document?
Download and Read it here – 10 pages and every word worth the read.
Is The Most High God our Watchman or what?
The Good points
The good points of the SCPC are self-evident and common with all the other efforts geared towards harnessing the collective efforts of all Ambazonians to effect “self-determination”. While others may have narrowed down their definition of self-determination, it has to be underlined that SCPC has left it as wide as possible, more on which later. The use of “EXTERNAL self-determination” could have transitioned this apparently good point to a good point though.
SCPC condemned the atrocities, in various forms, committed by La République du Cameroun against Southern Cameroons, resolved “continue to demand the release of all prisoners or conscience”, “condemned La République du Cameroun’s culture of impunity, which dehumanises Southern Cameroonians”… among other statements of the crimes committed by La République du Cameroun.
SCPC also outlined the twin aspects of the oft-quoted “root causes” to the failure of the UN in its decolonisation duties and the “bad faith of La République du Cameroun” in breaking their word and commitments subsequent to the 1961 plebiscite.
“Affirmed Southern Cameroonians’ right to self-defence”
These resolutions do not bind any Ambazonian to anything and could bring some good – but hopefully no lasting harm.
The Bad.
The SCPC did not choose to be the APC though nearly a third of the “signatories” are “Ambazonian” by name and several of the G0 “signatories” are “Ambazonian” by act – of fighting for independence of Ambazonia.
SCPC did not deem it politic to plumb for “EXTERNAL self-determination” never mind “independence”. Maybe the conference actually resolved that way, but it is very unlikely that all those entities who “put” their names on the resolutions settled for such vagueries. Did they all really think they should avoid the word “independence”, and then the phrase “external self-determination”? This language matters as it could be argued to buttress La République du Cameroun’s insistence that she is dealing with an internal problem by “granting” concessions.
In parroting the “condemnations” of the international community SCPC is casting itself as a helpless victim, at best, who needs and depends on the kind intervention of the international community, and at worst a supplicant to the same La République du Cameroun, who, after six decades of deliberate acts with a confessed aim to assimilate and destroy cultural identity of Southern Cameroonians, are somehow expected to heed the “appeal to stop”.
This supplicant posture carries on in the analysis of the two aspects of the “root causes”, where despite the “international community’s” history of failing Southern Cameroons, they are being appealed to without “any motivation”. What about pointing out the “bad faith” of La République du Cameroun in complicit guilt with the failings of the UN and then setting up preparations for “negotiations” not only without any mutuality, but seemingly reliant on their latter-day good faith and the international community’s?
La République du Cameroun can bring this document to the international community to show that Southern Cameroonians are begging for a negotiation and ask for time to deal with it internally.
La République du Cameroun’s culture of impunity is “condemned” as it should be but what has it got to do with a country fighting for its independence? If La République du Cameroun promise, hand-on heart to launch investigations to punish whoever, would that fool Ambazonians? (sorry Southern Cameroonians?)
The oddest part of the resolutions is that SCPC has appropriated onto itself the role of negotiator for the people of Southern Cameroons, who it also presumes to represent but chooses to assume a supplicant posture. This act belies the tone of the resolutions where a certain “harmless victim persona” contrasts sharply with the bold reach to grasp the mantle of representative!
And yet that is not all…one entity’s name is missing though its finger prints are all over the resolutions – and that is probably the biggest problem. It is time for Ambazonian entities to stop keeping themselves secret or acting timid so-called for the benefit of “the international community”. Is it really for the benefit of the international community?
It would appear it is as safe for SCPC to take Ambazonia for granted as it is for La République du Cameroun to do – even tame supplicant SCPC does not hesitate to assign itself the posts of “negotiator” and coordinator all while avoiding “independence” and even “EXTERNAL self-determination” for Ambazonia!
Fortuitous Fact-Check
By coincidence Ambazonia News was in a meeting where the question of “who is an Ambazonian?” was addressed. As The Most High God would have it, the personality addressing that question happened to have been a delegate at SCPC. They made it clear that an Ambazonians is primarily, in the current situation, someone who fights for Ambazonian independence. By contrast, it is well known that the invisible entity behind the SCPC defines Ambazonians as “people born in Southern Cameroons”, in a bid to appear “inclusive”. That delegate, responding to follow up questions, declared they had not seen the resolutions and that they had expected the theme of “independence” to be central, alongside “referendum” as a way of getting the Ambazonian people’s sovereign choice. Neither of these are in the current document, nor even the milder “EXTERNAL self-determination”.
Yet another delegate was more dismissive of the SCPC, questioning how people living in La République du Cameroun had been able to attend the SCPC in Canada in person and go back. Ambazonia News is reserving some of the assertions that accompanied this contributor’s statements.
What to do About SCPC?
If you were a delegate and/or signatory or implied signatory, you need to read it and ensure you agree. After reading, if you wish to exercise a right to reply please head to ambazonia.news and submit a comment or send comments through WhatsApp.
If you were not a delegate you similarly have a right to comment on the resolutions on whether you give SCPC permission to represent you as they propose and/or on the basis they propose. It is important! Your silence will be taken as consent!
For our part Ambazonia News is confident that even if SCPC turns out to be a LIMBE Horse its sheer inconsistencies will overwhelm it as The Most High God is the Watchman of Ambazonia. SCPC mentions 1984, presumably La République du Cameroun’s secession decree. The good point for Ambazonia is that that decree reverted LRC to its 1960 borders and liberated Ambazonia (also called Southern Cameroons) from the already unsigned-off and majorly breached-and-invalidated “union”. The upshot is that no resolution of the Ambazonian Liberation Struggle could be considered, embarked upon or contemplated, other than from the basis of two states – as if we were in the plebiscite campaign period, except now, with the benefit of hind sight of how the “expected loose association with La République du Cameroun could turn”. It is worth reading HCB 28/92 – the Bamenda High Court ruling in Ambazonia Vs La République du Cameroun.
Want to read the SCPC resolutions? Find them here
Ambazonian Independence is locked.
Meeting in Toronto between 5th and 8th October 2023, the Southern Cameroons Peoples’ Conference, SCPC concluded with resolutions presented below for readers of Ambazonia News.
Ambazonia News is reserving the editorial opinion and just presenting the facts. We welcome, and promise to post, any comments submitted to Ambazonia News in response to the resolutions.
Download the SCPC resolutions from here
The Consultation Team has issued a preliminary report of the consultation. A full report is yet to come, for which, please look out. Hopefully that will not be the end of the process as Ambazonia News expects the consultation to lead to action. Ambazonia grows. Ambazonia learns, Ambazonia takes her destiny in her own hands.
Please find the pages below:
Ambazonia News reserves the possibility of a comment and is working to obtain a single document version for those who wish to download it.
The Temporary Protected Status, TPS, was largely unknown among Ambazonians and Camerounese before it was announced.
It came in response to the repression and rampant abuses of human rights in La Republique du Cameroun as well as the continuing genocidal crimes in Ambazonia.
Since then the regime of nonagenarian invalid Mr Biya has invested heavily in amateur spinners whose catch phrase is “normalcy has returned”.
While the US has not disputed the “return of normalcy” it would appear that if the US is not just displaying diplomatic know how then they have concluded that normalcy in La Republique du Cameroun does not equate to safety for would-be refugees. The TPS has been extended for another 18 months for victims of La Republique du Cameroun. The US has their own understanding of normalcy in La Republique du Cameroun and it warrants protection for all La Republique du Cameroun citizens, talk less of Ambazonians.
For Ambazonians the “return to normalcy” would translate to “continue the Liberation Struggle” for its meaning is that corruption, marginalisation, tribalism and attempted assimilation, among other burdens, are to be stepped up.
In a real sense the return of normalcy signals to the US and other international partners interested in the security of the Gulf of Guinea that La Republique du Cameroun has no intention of attempting a viable peaceful solution of the Ambazonian Liberation Struggle.
That leaves international community partners with no credible voice to try to persuade Ambazonians that they should consider any other solution than to physically eject La Republique du Cameroun from their land.
The Most High God and our ancestors will continue to fight our corner until the international community decides once more “never again”
Ambazonia News Briefs 