14, June 2020
Ambazonia: IG’s secret briefing reveal pro-Biya militias operating in Southern Cameroons 0
Interim Gov’t of Ambazonia Statement on French Cameroun Militias Operating in Ambazonia
Fellow Ambazonians,
On Monday, 8th of June 2020, the residents of Eshobi village in Manyu County woke up to the shock and awe of a brutal attack by militia loyal to the neo-colonial regime in Yaoundé. Local residents reported witnessing a militia with guns and machetes supported by heavily armed French Cameroun soldiers attacking the village indiscriminately. Five innocent young men who had their lives in front of them were brutally murdered at their family homes. Our hearts go out to their families and loved ones.
Yesterday, the Interim Government of Ambazonia intelligence sources confirmed that French Cameroun militia under the banner of vigilante groups are operating in Victoria, Fako County. Our intelligence sources confirmed many attacks on our citizens and their property. These heavily armed men are backed in their atrocities by the French Cameroun neo-colonial military.
The intention of these militias is to sabotage our revolution and we condemn this strongly.
As a government, the employment of militia in our country is strictly forbidden. We come to reassure the people of Ambazonia that we are now engaged with our self-defence forces on how to counter this new approach from the enemy. The safety and security of our citizens is of utmost importance and all necessary measures are being taken from the Interim Government of Ambazonia to keep its citizens safe.
For four years now, French Cameroun forces have brutalised, raped and murdered our people with impunity. The approach of using local militia as in the case of Ngarbuh and now Eshobi and Victoria is an attempt to set our communities against each other. We are urging all communities to be vigilant and look out for one another.
This war was declared on us by the French Cameroun regime. More than ten thousand of our people have been killed. Our villages have been burned down and hundreds of thousands of our people are living in the forests and as refugees in Nigeria. We picked up arms as a last resort to defend ourselves and property.
Let us continue our fight for self-defence, freedom and independence with integrity and decency. Only through these values would we attain freedom and independence.
Thank You
Dabney Yerima
Vice President, Federal Republic of Ambazonia
14, June 2020
Bundes: Berliners form socially-distanced human chain against racism 0
Thousands demonstrated in Berlin against racism and for broader fairness, including sharing the coronavirus burden, as they stretched a human chain through the German capital Sunday while keeping safe distances.
Hundreds also turned out in other cities like Leipzig and Hamburg, although some faced rainstorms in the tail-end of a weekend of harsh weather across Germany.
A spokesman for progressive movement Unteilbar (Indivisible) told AFP “more than 20,000 people” had participated in the event in Berlin, while police estimated around 8,000.
The route of the human chain — stretching from the world-famous Brandenburg Gate past the landmark Communist-era TV tower at Alexanderplatz and down into the ethnically diverse Neukoelln district — had to be extended to accommodate the numbers.
“The coronavirus is worsening existing inequalities. Many people are threatened with being left behind. We will not allow that,” said Unteilbar spokesman Georg Wissmeier in a statement.
“Human rights, social justice and climate justice belong together indivisibly.”
Over 10,000 people gathered in Berlin under the banner of Black Lives Matter last weekend in response to the May 25 killing of African-American George Floyd in Minneapolis, and the slogan was also in evidence on banners and T-shirts Sunday.
But the organisers of the latest demonstration posted a broader set of aims on their website.
– Coal mines to migrant camps –
Their demands include better working conditions and pay for all including migrants, affordable housing, upholding asylum rights, relaunching the economy along green lines and allowing workers more say in how companies are run.
“Who bears the costs of the global crisis, who will be stronger afterwards and who weaker — that’s being decided now,” Unteilbar organisers wrote.
Different groups ran individual stretches of the human chain, ranging from political parties like the Greens and Left party to civil society organisations like “Grannies against the far right” and the Fridays for Future youth climate movement.
And appearances by musicians and campaigners along the demonstration route were broadcast by organisers in a live stream of the event.
Messages from the “Ende Gelaende” group that has staged sit-ins at open-cast coal mines and fossil power plants appeared alongside an appeal from an Afghan filmmaker who lived in Greece’s overcrowded Moria refugee camp for six months.
“Everything is getting worse on the island” of Lesbos, where many people fleeing the Middle East via Turkey first reach European soil, Ahmad Ebrahimi told viewers.
“Please do anything you can” to help, he urged.
– Virus fears –
Ahead of Sunday’s demonstration, some had warned that the gatherings could provoke new transmission of the coronavirus.
“People not maintaining distance, shouting and chanting when packed close together — those are ideal conditions” for infection, Social Democratic Party (SPD) MP and epidemiologist Karl Lauterbach told the Tagesspiegel newspaper.
On their website, Unteilbar organisers urged sticking to “a responsible form of protest in times of pandemic and crisis”, telling participants to remain three metres (yards) apart to minimise the risk of coronavirus transmission.
As the human chain got under way, stewards handed out strips of brightly coloured tape cut to the right length as a guide.
Participants’ infection control precautions had been “exemplary”, a police spokesman told AFP, adding that people had kept their distance and worn facemasks.
Source: AFP