On Tuesday May 28, 2019 Cameroons' Minister of External Relations, Le Jeune Mbella Mbella made some fallacious assertions in a Declaration to the diplomatic missions accredited to Yaounde.
Mbella Mbella obviously told outrageous lies about the so-called professionalism of their trigger-happy, baby-killing soldiers, while propagating false claims of disciplinary measures generally taken to correct erring troops. The SCLC likes to recall that the same soldiers who killed a 4-month-old toddler in Muyuka, burnt down over 100 houses in Makon purportedly due to confusion and who have so far burnt above 250 villages including hospitals and schools cannot be described as professional.
By attempting to indict rights groups that have documented abuses by Cameroon's army, and make false claims of foreign financing of the Southern Cameroons struggle for freedom, Dictator Biya's government failed to shine the light on reports by its own National Commission on Human Rights and Freedoms which exposed much more than Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and others have done.
The SCLC regrets that at a time focus should be on seeking lasting solutions to the murderous conflict, Mbella Mbella without shame quotes census figures which had long been clearly classified as inaccurate and politically skewed to favour fraudulent electoral calculations. The population of the Southern Cameroons, from public health census statistics stands well over 6 million.
The claim by the Biya government that dialogue is a process that has been going on and is continuing is an attempt to veil the regime's avowed ambition to pursue a military option that will allow them to cement the annexation of Southern Cameroons started in 1961 and intensified in 1984.
The recent visit to Cameroon by UN Rights Chief, Michelle Bachelet only happened after several months of insistence. In the end, Ms. Bachelet was only allowed into Cameroon on condition that she would end only in Yaounde and Douala and talk mainly to people authorized by the government.
The SCLC warns that the careless assertion by Mbella Mbella that the situation prevailing in Southern Cameroons does not threaten world peace and regional stability, and insisting that his government was rather seeking an endogenous solution to what he termed "the crisis", proves beyond reasonable doubts that Yaounde does not want third-party-mediated talks as recommended by most international actors. That government prefers more war, giving them room to completely wipe out the peace-loving people of the former UN Trust Territory of British Southern Cameroons.
The SCLC seizes this opportunity to recall that the passage of genocide-enabler-in-chief, Prime Minister Dion Ngute in Southern Cameroons produced effects totally opposite to claims made by Mbella Mbella. The over 100 homes razed down in Mankon- Bamenda, the 4-month-old baby killed in Muyuka, the 9 civilians brutally killed in Menchum all happened after Dion Ngute left. Statistics on the ground show that an average of 45 people die daily on the territory since Dion Ngute passed-by.
The so-called institutions created with the situation in Southern Cameroons in mind remain an attempt to blindfold the world that something is being done. The Bilingualism and Multiculturalism and then Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration Commissions are cosmetic bodies put in place to reward regime loyalists.
The SCLC calls the attention of both national and international public opinion to witness that any references by Mbella Mbella to Cameroon's territorial integrity does not have any bearing on the former UN Trust Territory of British Southern Cameroons. The Republic of Cameroon achieved her independence on January 1, 1960 with clearly defined boundaries. The Southern Cameroons voted in a UN-ORGANIZED plebiscite on February 11, 1961 to form a new federal country with them, an arrangement Dictator Biya abolished in 1984 by decree and opted to intensity the recolonization of our country.
The SCLC seizes this opportunity to reiterate the urgent need for the UN Security Council to without further delays order an emergency international humanitarian military intervention to save the lives of innocent and unarmed civilians being taken in droves daily with impunity. We also urge the African Union, successor organization to the OAU to respect their own Charter which clearly forbade territorial expansion after independence in 1960 following the principle of uti possidetis juris.
The SCLC is the largest coalition of liberation movements, groups and organizations seeking the independence of the former UN Trust Territory of British Southern Cameroons.
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