9, December 2018
French Cameroun’s judicial weapon of genocide: Ethnic Beti-Bulu Genocidal Court-Martial Task Force 0
From when the genocide mastermind and President of French Cameroun declared war against the Southern Cameroons-Ambazonia on 30 November 2017, Cameroon Concord News Group began exposing the details of the preplanned genocide against Ambazonia. Key actors in the preplanning and execution of the genocide closely supervised by Paul Biya himself made public statements which left no one in doubt about their involvement and their significant contribution to the criminal enterprise. Among a plethora of individual and institutional masterminds are Laurent Esso, Fame Ndongo, Biti Assoumou, Okada Bilai, Lele L’Afrique, George Tabetando, Atanga Nji, Philemon Yang, Patrick Ekema, Isa Tchiroma Bakary, Eno Meyomesse, Owona Nguini, television 4, Ernest Obama, CTRV. Added to this inexhaustible list are several military commanders deployed to execute the genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in and out the territory of Ambazonia.
George Tabetando, a Southern Cameroonian participant in the planning of the genocide publicly stated during a French Cameroun sanctioned meeting in Buea and in live interviews over CRTV that it was he and Mafany Musonge who advised Paul Biya to impose an internet ban that lasted over three months on the territory of Ambazonia. Mafany Musonge promptly denied his involvement in the criminal conduct.
It is green in our individual and collective memories that the internet ban facilitated the elaborate extermination of armless Ambazonians, the rape of Ambazonia girls and women; paralyzed the economy of Ambazonia, its educational institutions, hospitals, the pillaging of its natural resources and launched the ongoing genocide. The internet ban also facilitated the abduction of thousands of the citizens of Ambazonia to concentration camps and underground dungeons in French Cameroun. Many of them were tortured to death in detention and many others have since been brought before a court-martial and promptly convicted in sham trials conducted in furtherance of the genocidal policies of French Cameroun.
The abduction and rendition to French Cameroun from Nigeria of the President of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia, His Excellency, Sisiku Ayuk Tabe and members of the Interim Government escalated and internationalized the conflict and the crimes committed in and out of Ambazonia against citizens of Ambazonia. The President and members of the Interim Government were legally in Nigeria under the protection of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
The inter-state use of terror, abduction and rendition of His Excellency Sisiku Ayuk Tabe and members of the Interim Government, to French Cameroun outlawed in international law, places French Cameroun and Nigeria as state party apologists and sponsors of international terrorism which threatens world peace and security. Nigeria through the national security adviser to President Mohammedu Buhari Baba Gana Mugano and French Cameroun through government spokesman Isa Bakary publicly made official statements on behalf of their respective governments admitting the shameful acts of international criminality. Cameroun Concord News Group warned then, that left unsanctioned by the United Nations, the inter-state use of terror and abduction, by these countries might, provide a fig leaf of legitimacy and embolden Boko Haram and armed groups worldwide in their modus operandi of using terror and abduction to victimize and destabilize significant parts of the world.
The inter-state terrorism by French Cameroun and Nigeria on whom the international community is relying on to combat that form of outlawed international criminality, validates the claims by keen observers that the two states are indeed the sponsors of Boko Haram. This explains why the war against Boko Haram cannot succeed because Boko Haram masterminds cannot meaningfully lead the war against themselves. The slaughter of hundreds of thousands of poor, jobless and uneducated youth in both countries is a mere subterfuge to conceal the Boko Haram criminal activities of the political, military and economic official structures within both countries. The real enemies are the crime syndicates in power in Nigeria and French Cameroun and Daesh/Isis political Islamic conglomerate operating in the Sahel and the sub-region of which the ethnic political cabal in and out of the Buhari presidency and the Paul Biya crime syndicate are key participants.
Sisiku Ayuk Tabe and members of the Interim Government of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia may be said to be lucky survivals of the ruthless hit squad that had a mandate to abduct and kill them immediately. The inter-state cooperation in this crime was not an isolated event. The government of Buhari and Paul Biya are united in economic and commercial terrorism arising from the imperial and neo-colonial exploitation of the oil and natural resources from the Niger Delta, and the Southern Cameroons.
The strong opposition by the exploited communities over many years threatens the pecuniary interests of these masterminds of economic and commercial terrorism. Boko Haram provides a basis for them to eternalize power and provides an alibi for the channeling of funds to sustain economic and commercial terrorism against Ambazonia, the Niger Delta and South Eastern Nigeria.
Once the occasion to promptly assassinate Sisiku Ayuk Tabe and others failed, the problem about how to dispose of him and others has preoccupied the inter-state coconspirators. French Cameroun decided to empanel a court-martial that was already very active in the execution of the genocide against Southern Cameroons-Ambazonia to put them on trial.
The court-martial is presided over by Colonel Abega Mbezoa epouse Eko Eko. The other members are Edou Mewoutou and Ngouongue. The commissioners of government are Engono Eric and Tanjmou Dang Assabe. The entire court-martial is made up of Beti-Bulu ethnic power elite, members of Essingan and like Clement Atangana, the President of the constitutional court of French Cameroun, members of the CPDM crime syndicate. In addition to its ethnic composition and royalty, the court-martial is under the direct command responsibility of Paul Biya, the Commander-in- Chief of the French Cameroun genocidal armed forces that are executing the genocide of Ambazonians.
Apart from the multilayered conflict of interests, ethnic, political and military command and control of the court-martialand concerns over this court-martial, the Presiding Judge of the court-martial is the wife of one of the key actors in the prosecution of the war and genocide of Ambazonia Leopold Maxime Eko Eko. He actively participated in the abduction and rendition of Sisiku Ayuk Tabe and others to French Cameroun. It is therefore a case of the husband overseeing the genocide, the massacres and the abductions of Ambazonians in and outside their country and the wife sitting in judgment to complement the crimes of her husband by providing a legal cover to them.
Leopold Maxime Eko Eko since 2010, is the director general of DGRE (Direction Générale de Recherche Exterieure) formerly known as SEDOC, DIRDOC and CENER. He operates in collaboration with the National Security Council whose Secretary-General is the criminal kingpin, Atanga Nji.
It is a matter of grave concern to Cameroon Concord News Group that Sisiku Ayuk Tabe and others over whom the UN High Commissioner for Refugees has asserted jurisdiction should be allowed by the civilized world to stand trial in a court-martial that itself is actively involved in the genocide and the wider economic and commercial terrorism in Ambazonia. Cameroon Concord News Group strongly urges the United Nations and the International Community to step forth and stop this creative use of this court-martial tool of genocide from legitimizing this mother of all crimes that the free world promised to banish. French Cameroun’s empaneled Beti-Bulu ethnic genocidal-martial is a judicial weapon of genocide and must be stopped by the international community.
To this I put my name
Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai
14, December 2018
Southern Cameroons Crisis: Doing too little too late 0
After two years of violent confrontations between government forces and Southern Cameroonian separatists, which have resulted in the death of more than 4,000 Cameroonians, the Yaoundé government has begun taking baby and doubtful steps towards peace.
Last month, the Yaoundé government had announced in a press release that it had set up Demobilization, Disarmament and Reintegration (DDR) Commission whose objective, according to the government, was to help young Southern Cameroonians who had lost their way to return to the fold.
The creation of the DDR Commission had come under massive criticism as many observers and analysts considered the government’s action as putting the cart before the horses. According to many experts, the creation of such a commission should imply that the parties at war have been discussing and have agreed on the way forward, with a ceasefire announcing the end of the bloody confrontations.
But none of that had taken place prior to the announcement of the DDR Commission. The government has resorted to unilateral actions which are stirring more controversies than appease the Southern Cameroonian fighters.
Despite the creation of the DDR Commission, the government has not relented in its violent killing of Southern Cameroonians and the burning of their homes.
More than 15 villages in the two English-speaking regions of the country have, over the last two weeks following the creation of the DDR Commission, been deleted from the country’s map. Kumbo, Meluf, Wei, and Bambui are among the villages that have faced the government’s wrath and residents of these villages are today seeking refuge in the jungle. Some 50 unarmed civilians, including pregnant women and children were among those mowed down by the government’s trigger-happy soldiers in recent weeks.
Two weeks after the DDR Commission controversy, the Yaoundé government has once more engaged in its usual diversionary tactics by announcing that some 289 Southern Cameroonians charged with misdemeanor would be released from jails across the country.
This announcement leaves many people in doubt as the Yaoundé government is known for speaking from both sides of its mouth. The announcement is more confusing as no names have been provided and many people wonder if Southern Cameroonian leaders such as Julius Ayuk Tabe and those kidnapped, taken to Yaoundé and held in communicado for more than seven months will be among those to be released.
According to a Cameroon Concord News Group legal expert, Cameroon’s penal code categorizes offenses into three groups: simple offenses, misdemeanors and felonies.
“Simple offenses are punishable by a prison term of less than 10 days and a fine, while misdemeanors are punishable by a prison term not exceeding 10 years and a fine. Felonies, for their part, are punishable by death or a prison term above 10 years and a fine,” the expert who elected anonymity said.
He added that Julius Ayuk Tabe and Co. had been charged with acts of terrorism which are offenses defined and punishable under the antiterrorism law No 2014/028 of 23 December 2014 (Section 2 et seq). He stressed that “If found guilty of these offenses, Section 2, Paragraph (d) would kick in and they would face the death penalty.
From every indication, the offenses for which they have been charged with are felonies and not misdemeanors. The presidential decree therefore appears to have limited its scope to those who have only been charged with misdemeanors and from the analysis, Julius Ayuk Tabe and Co. are therefore not affected by the president’s decree.
The experts however advised that we should not lose sight of the fact that this is a purely political issue and the solutions are more in the hands of politicians than in the hands of the lawyers.
“We should therefore not be surprised if we the President uses his constitutional powers to extend the scope of beneficiaries to include those that are not targeted by the law. This option is even more likely considering the fact the government might be thinking of appeasing than implementing the law,” the legal expert concluded.
Despite this supposed act of magnanimity on the part of the government, many Southern Cameroonians are still very skeptical about the government’s intention, especially as its alcohol-inflamed and sex-starved soldiers are still mowing down young and unarmed youths in Kumbo and the neighboring towns.
Southern Cameroonians are surely not going to let down their guard. The fighters will not be downing their weapons anytime, soon, as the decision to disarm and demobilize any fighters is a unilateral move by the government which might have been informed by the changing global politics.
The Yaoundé government is gradually losing support around the globe and its main backer, France, is in the throes of a complex and delicate internal strife that might alter alot.
Besides, the international community is getting more vocal regarding the crisis in the two English-speaking regions and the cash-strapped Yaoundé government wants to prove that it is listening, especially to calls for an inclusive dialogue that would lead to a negotiated settlement.
This week, the World Bank came down heavily on the Yaounde government, accusing it of corruption and unjustifiable spending. The Washington-based organization also pointed to the government’s lavish lifestyle, arguing that if the government did not take appropriate measures, it could face the prospect of a bankruptcy as its coffers are gradually drying up.
It should be recalled that last month, the African football governing body, CAF, stripped the country of the right to host the 2019 games due to lack of infrastructure and growing insecurity in the two English-speaking regions and in the northern part of the country .
Corruption and mismanagement are to blame for the country’s inability to build state-of-the-art infrastructure, and following that decision, government ministers have been accusing each other for the fiasco.
Also in New York, the tides are turning against the government. Remarks by the U.S. representative at the UN Security Council briefing on the Central African Region have clearly proven that the Yaoundé government is under enormous pressure.
The U.S. representative said during the briefing that “Mr. President, the United States calls for an immediate and broad-based reconciliatory dialogue, without pre-conditions, between the Government of Cameroon and separatists in the Northwest and Southwest Regions. We urge all sides to forswear violence, to restore peace, and to resolve their grievances through political dialogue.”
With such statements, the Biya regime understands that it is time to change course. It has understood that Southern Cameroonian fighters will not be yielding anytime soon and the prospects of achieving any victory via military action are unfortunately low.
Southern Cameroonian fighters are more determined, and as they acquire more sophisticated weapons, they also hold that they can easily attain their objective through war. The government might be willing to prove that it wants peace, but its killing of thousands of Southern Cameroonians might make its efforts look like another ploy to deceive the international community.
While many objective observers hold that this might be the first step in the right direction, many Southern Cameroonians are still skeptical and they hold that the moves by the government are too small and are coming too late.
They argue that the war was not necessary, adding that the government’s legendary arrogance is to blame for the blood that has been spilled and that blood will be one reason that will make it hard for peace to return to the Central African country.
By Kingsley Betek in Yaounde