The trial of three members of security forces accused of involvement in the killings of 21 civilians in Ngarbuh, in Cameroon’s North-West region, is due to resume today.

The trial, which began on December 17, 2020, and adjourned twice, takes place before the military court in the capital, Yaoundé, about 380 kilometers from Ngarbuh, making it difficult for family members of victims to attend. Family members’ lawyers are concerned about how challenging it is for their clients to participate in the trial, as is their right as civil parties in the case under Cameroon law. They would prefer the trial be held at the military court in Bamenda, closer to Ngarbuh.

“Our clients don’t have the financial means to travel to Yaoundé,” Richard Tamfu, one of the lawyers, told Human Rights Watch. “The court sitting in Bamenda would fit with the key principle of meaningful access to justice, bringing it closer to the victims.”

The attack on the village of Ngarbuh on February 14, 2020, was one of the worst by Cameroonian army soldiers since the crisis in the Anglophone regions began in late 2016. Soldiers killed 21 civilians, including 13 children and a pregnant woman, and burned 5 homes in a reprisal attack aimed at punishing residents suspected of harboring separatist fighters. Two soldiers and a gendarme have been arrested in connection with the massacre and charged with murder, arson, destruction, violence against a pregnant woman, and disobeying orders. Seventeen members of a vigilante group and a former separatist fighter have also been charged but remain at large.

On February 3, some families of the Ngarbuh victims received food items and 5 million CFA (US $9,000) each as compensation for the destruction of their property from the Governor of the North-West region, on behalf of President Paul Biya, a move criticized by lawyers representing the families who said it is up to the court to decide on reparations.

The participation of victims of gross human rights violations in criminal proceedings is an essential way of giving them a voice. Cameroonian authorities, with the support of international partners, if necessary, should ensure that the victims’ families can attend and participate in the trial so that their rights to justice and reparations are upheld.

Source: Human Rights Watch

The Quebec coroner is investigating the death of Mireille Ndjomouo, who posted a video on social media two days before she died claiming staff at a hospital on Montreal’s South Shore had ignored her allergies.

Ndjomouo, a 44-year-old single mother of three from Cameroon, posted a video to social media last Sunday.

She repeatedly said staff at Charles-Le Moyne Hospital in Longueuil had treated her with penicillin, even though she said they knew that she was allergic.

In the video, Ndjomouo begged anyone watching to help her get transferred to another hospital.

Ndjomouo repeatedly said in the video that she was having trouble breathing, had pain all through her body and that her stomach was swollen.

She also said she was injected with penicillin over the course of three days.

Ndjomouo said the injections stopped when a nurse noticed that her lips were swollen and said the reaction wasn’t normal.

After seeing the video online, members of the Cameroonian community in Montreal went to the hospital with Ndjomouo’s sister and arranged to have her transferred to the Jewish General Hospital. 

Ndjomouo died there on Tuesday. The cause of her death is not yet known.

The regional health authority that oversees the Charles-Le Moyne Hospital, the CISSS de la Montérégie-Centre, told CBC in an email that it can’t comment on the case due to confidentiality, but did say that the quality department is looking into it.

The Jewish General Hospital would not give details about Ndjomouo, citing patient confidentiality.

On Saturday, friends and family of Ndjomouo held a demonstration outside of Charles-Le Moyne Hospital, demanding answers.

“She’s gone, but many questions still remain about what happened to her,” said Christine Ndjomouo, Mireille’s sister.

“I keep hearing her voice saying, ‘Come and save me. Come and save me, they’re going to kill me. I’m all puffed up. Get me out of here.’ That’s what I hear every day since it happened,” she said.

Christine said her sister lost faith in the personnel at the hospital and wanted to leave. She said it took five hours of negotiation before the hospital agreed to transfer her sister.

Friends have started an online fundraiser for the family, to help support Ndjomouo’s children and repatriate her body to Cameroon.

Culled from CBC

The leader of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia, President Sisiku Ayuk Tabe called on Thursday for the withdrawal of all Cameroon government army soldiers and French Cameroun armed militias known as Atanga Nji Boys from Southern Cameroons territory without further delay in an interview with the pan African French language news magazine Jeune Afrique.

President Sisiku Ayuk Tabe also welcomed US Congress new unified efforts, which is set to lead the Biya French Cameroun regime after four years of conflict to the negotiating table.

“The people of the Southern Cameroons, (also known as Ambazonia) are a peace-loving people. They want peace at all cost. Remember, that in 1958 Southern Cameroons had a democratic election and a peaceful transfer of power during their period of self-rule under British trusteeship. The people still have and cherish these values.  However, there can be no peace without justice. If Mr Biya claims he does not know whom to talk to, then why were we abducted from Nigeria in January 2018?”  President Sisiku Ayuk Tabe said.

“With regards to La Republique du Cameroun government’s claim that we have been totally defeated, this is not the first time we are hearing that from them. They should match their words with reality. Remember their denial of Ngarbuh Massacre and many others. The war has been raging unabated for 4 years now. Under his instructions and watch Mr Biya’s forces have embarked on committing genocide in the Southern Cameroons/ Ambazonia. The world silently watches as this goes on, in complete disregard of the R2P commitment and the Never Again Promise after the 1993/94 Genocide in Rwanda. We are bothered if the war continues for a long time because of the lives of our people killed every day by Cameroun military forces, but until Mr Biya and his colonial forces leave our territory, for us, it is “TOTAL INDEPENDENCE OR RESISTANCE FOREVER” President Sisiku Ayuk Tabe furthered.

The level of barbarism being perpetuated by the Cameroon government military and the Francophone dominated government militias as Yaoundé pursue its genocidal war and scorch earth policy to completely annihilate the Southern Cameroons (Ambazonia) is alarming. As a result of the on-going genocide in the Southern Cameroons (Ambazonia), an estimated 20,000 people have been killed, over 500 towns and villages have been burnt down, over 120,000 people are seeking refuge in Nigeria and further afield, over 1million people are internally displaced or living in bushes and over 3,000 persons incarcerated in prisons and detention facilities.

While not exonerating Ambazonian self-defense forces, the international community is also aware that the Biya Francophone regime is doing everything through its private militia (popularly known as Atanga Nji Boys) to commit atrocities and link them to Ambazonia self-defense forces, so as to evoke international sympathy.

The Southern Cameroons Interim Government have previously denounced the presence in the Federal Republic of Ambazonia of Cameroon government troops and armed groups made up of unemployed Southern Cameroons youth.

By Asu Vera Eyere

The Southern Cameroons Interim Government has touched on a lame and ridiculous statement made by the French Cameroun regime in Yaoundé saying that Ambazonia Restoration Forces have been totally defeated.

The Southern Cameroons Secretary of State for Communications and Information Technology, Hon. Milton Taka said President Paul Biya of La Republique du Cameroun and his army soldiers have been driving on the wrong side of Southern Cameroons motorway and therefore they need to make a U-turn to the negotiating table for the two Cameroons to have a peaceful co-existence.

In a telephone conversation with Cameroon Concord London Bureau Chief, the Southern Cameroons Secretary of State for Communications and Information Technology Milton Taka stated that “The Biya French Cameroun administration in Yaoundé and military officials have been driving on the wrong side of the Ambazonian highway for four years now, while thinking that the Ambazonian people and their Interim Government coming from the opposite direction are moving in the wrong way.”

Comrade Milton Taka pointed out that the sooner Biya and his gang of French Cameroun political elites realizes the right direction of the Amba highway, the better it will be for the future generation of French and British Southern Cameroonians.

Secretary Milton Taka noted that “The path that Biya of French Cameroun must take is completely clear as indicated by His Excellency President Sisiku Ayuk Tabe. Biya must withdraw all Francophone forces from Southern Cameroons streets, free all Southern Cameroons Prisoners of Conscience, grant general amnesty to all Ambazonians in the Diaspora and commit to an international mediated negotiation in a neutral venue and the Southern Cameroons Interim Government will be there.”

Hon. Milton Taka then pointed to educational issues created by the four-year-old conflict. “On educational matters, primary education is free in public primary schools in Nigeria. But many of our refugee children are at home because their parents cannot afford for text books and other school materials. Even at the Secondary School level, subsidies by UNHCR partners do not cover other areas of need. There are young graduates on and out of the settlements who are idle without any form of substantial empowerment. Even those who wish to further their studies seldom get hold of scholarship opportunities. Such are the voices and experiences of some Cameroonian refugees in Nigeria hoping to one day return home” Milton added.

By Chi Prudence Asong

The Centre for Human Rights and Democracy in Africa (CHRDA) accused the Cameroon army on Monday of killing at least eight civilians in one of the country’s conflict-hit English-speaking regions, according to a statement.

CHRDA said it received reports Sunday about the killing of at least eight civilians in Maotu village in the country’s South West region. The victims killed included women and children, “who are classified under the group of vulnerable persons.”

The rights group said it “received and analyzed some videos and images from the scene, which all depict that the victims were shot dead. Sources revealed that there was a military invasion in the village that kept everyone running for safety.”

“So many people were killed, including a grandmother and her grandchild. We do not know what that old woman and the innocent child did to deserve death,” CHRDA quoted an eyewitness as saying.

“CHRDA calls on the state authorities to investigate this heinous act and let justice be served for the victims. We also call on all combatants to fully respect International Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law,” it said.

The Cameroon military did not immediately respond to CHRDA’s statement.

The attack brings back to the minds of Cameroonians the Ngarbuh incident which occurred in 2020.

Last year, Cameroon acknowledged the army’s role in the killings of civilians — including children and women — in the country’s North West Region.

The incident occurred in February in Ngarbuh village, where the military was accused of killing civilians and burning homes. The government had earlier denied responsibility for the killings.

The Central African country has been marred by protests and violence since 2016, with residents in English-speaking regions contending they have been marginalized for decades by the central government and the French-speaking majority.

They are calling for independence or a return to a federal state.

Violence in the Anglophone regions in the last three years has claimed an estimated 3,000 lives and caused the displacement of more than 730,000 civilians, according to Human Rights Watch.

In June 2020, the Norwegian Refugee Council declared the conflict in Cameroon as the most neglected crisis on the planet for a second year running.

Culled Anadolu Agency for Cameroon Concord News by Alain Tabot-Tanyi

Another senior member of the ruling CPDM crime syndicate is about to leave the stage in pain and frustration.

Prof Mendo Ze is slowly but surely joining the list of prominent Biya acolytes who passed away in the Kondengui Maximum Security Prison in Yaoundé.

Mendo Ze will definitely also become the second Beti Ewondo baron after the late Ambassador Mendouga to die after being humiliated by a regime they gave their all to keep it in power.

Others such as Mouchipou Saidou came from other tribal extractions, but felt they were major shareholders in a crime syndicate that conducts itself as a crocodile that happily consumes its own eggs.

After Mendouga’s demise, there was a fierce tussle within the ruling CPDM over the legacy of those in Kondengui and Prof. Mendo Ze became the next on the list.

The Biya regime is now seeing the death of most renowned members while in power. The crime syndicate does not spare anybody. It is like a juggernaut that crushes anything in its path.

Greed has held CPDM militants together for decades and it is greed that is killing them one after the other.

The CPDM is like a cult or a drug. If you join it, then you are hooked for life. If you seek to sober up, then you will end up like Prof. Mendo Ze who has been obliged to rejuvenate.

His children will surely learn the hard lessons of greed that has reduced their father to a bag of bones.

By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai

The Vice President of the Southern Cameroons Interim Government has told a South African radio host in Johannesburg that the Federal Republic of Ambazonia’s four-year-old armed resistance is inspired by the prophetic path of Dr Emmanuel Lifafe Endeley who was strictly against any union with French Cameroun and its marquisard movements.

Comrade Dabney Yerima made the remarks in a live interview on Wednesday in which he informed the people of the city of Johannesburg on the state of the Southern Cameroons struggle and the need for the South Africa government to push for collective international action to help the people of Ambazonia.

Yerima opined that the British Southern Cameroons revolution is simply following the prophetic path that was mapped out by Dr Emmanuel Lifafe Endeley but ignored by leading KNDP forces in the 60s.

The roasting of a baby on February 11, 2021 in Batibo in the North West region seems to be shocking to millions around the world, but very few people remember that the burning of homes during an insurrection or insurgency in Cameroon is a French Cameroun government policy which dates back to the days of the marquisard movement in East Cameroon.

The burning of a baby in Batibo on the so-called Youth Day by Cameroon government army soldiers is a clear reminder that peace and stability are still illusory in Southern Cameroons though the regime in Yaoundé is giving the impression that things are stabilizing in Ambazonia.

The roasting of vulnerable people is nothing new during this conflict that has already sent more than 7,000 Cameroonians to an early grave. 

Kwakwa and Ngarbuh are still fresh in many minds. In Kwakwa, an old woman and a sick old man were roasted alive by Francophone army soldiers.

In Ngarbuh, Francophone government troops gunned down scores of people and set homes ablaze, leaving many calcinated in their homes. These were young children and pregnant women who had nothing to do with the insurgency that has been playing out in Southern Cameroons for over four years.

Vice President Yerima pointed out that the French Cameroun crime syndicate in Yaoundé clearly holds that burning the homes of the poor and innocent Southern Cameroonians will cause the population to discontinue its support to the insurgents even when it has not been really proven that the population is supporting the fighters.

Following the proclamation of independence by the Ambazonian leader President Sisiku Ayuk Tabe, the French government of President Emmanuel Macron and French Cameroun villains and criminals joined forces and lined up and are now confronting the Southern Cameroons revolution, similar to what happened to the late Dr. Emmanuel Lifafe Endeley when he began his plebiscite campaign against British Southern Cameroons joining La Republique du Cameroun.

Elsewhere in the interview, the exiled Southern Cameroons leader elaborated on ways that the nations in Southern Africa that are all members of the Commonwealth can help thwart the fabricated conspiracies of the French government and that of La Republique du Cameroun against the peaceful people of Southern Cameroons-Ambazonia.

By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai with files

In reaction to the latest round of the Cameroon government army attacks against the impoverished Ambazonian people in Mamfe, the chief town in the Manyu County, a senior Southern Cameroons figure Prof Carlson Anyangwe has urged the Biya Francophone regime to stop its war on fellow Africans. Prof Anyangwe also observed that it is time for the international community to wake up.

Cameroon government army soldiers have continuously defied principles of morality by carrying out attacks against the English speaking people particularly in the rural areas not covered by the media.

“The international community must stop this genocide and end the war on the people of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia,” Anyangwe said.

The remarks from the prominent Southern Cameroons academic who recently met with Vice President Dabney Yerima in South Africa, came following intensified attacks by Cameroon government troops on the Manyu Divisional capital, Mamfe.

The Francophone administration in Manyu has reportedly blamed the attacks that witnessed the destruction of houses and vehicles on armed Amba gangs. But people in the know including a local representative of the Southern Cameroons Interim Government have all hinted that the Mamfe attacks were staged by soldiers loyal to the French Cameroun regime in Yaoundé.

The recent rapes in Manyu as exposed by Human Rights Watch also prompted Prof Carlson Anyangwe to call on the international community to criminalize the continuation of the Cameroon government aggression against the people of British Southern Cameroons.

In another part of his statement, Carlson Anyangwe pointed to the fact that there is need for the people of Southern Cameroons and their Interim Government to intensify the resistance and ghost town operations.

By Asu Vera Eyere

Southern Cameroons Secretary of State for Communications and Information Technology, Hon. Milton Taka has urged the President Biden administration to pressure the French government in Paris and the Biya French Cameroun regime in Yaoundé into stopping the killing of innocent Ambazonian citizens in Ground Zero.

Comrade Milton Taka is with Vice President Dabney Yerima in South Africa, SABC news network reported Wednesday.

The Secretary of State for Communications and Information Technology hoped that the current US administration would shoulder its responsibility as the leader of the free world and work to ensure that the two Cameroons can hold intensive and productive dialogue in order to avoid a humanitarian catastrophe in Southern Cameroons.

Hon. Milton Taka opined that the current killing spree situation in Southern Cameroons-Ambazonia had become dangerous and that US and European Union intervention has become an urgent necessity.

Milton Taka reportedly hinted Vice President Dabney Yerima that the Southern Cameroons Interim Government should liaise with the European Union and the Biden administration to find a mechanism to stop the genocide presently going on the rural areas in Southern Cameroons-Ambazonia.

The level of barbarism being perpetuated by the Francophone dominated military and Cameroon government militias as they pursue their genocidal war and scorch earth policy to completely annihilate the Southern Cameroons (Ambazonia) is alarming now in the rural areas and in the borders with Nigeria.

 So far, as a result of the on-going genocide in the Southern Cameroons (Ambazonia), an estimated 20,000 people have been killed, over 500 towns and villages have been burnt down, over 120,000 people are seeking refuge in Nigeria and further afield, over 1million people are internally displaced or living in bushes and over 3,000 persons incarcerated in prisons and detention facilities in French Cameroun.

 By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai in Mulheim an der Ruhr with files

The Southern Cameroons Vice President Dabney Yerima says the French Cameroun regime in Yaoundé is the party spending millions of US dollars in a bid to prevent any intervention by the international community as barons of the regime are massively benefitting from the war in Southern Cameroons.

Vice President Dabney Yerima made the comments at a media briefing in South Africa on Monday, reacting to news that the Subcommittee on International Human Rights of the Canadian House of Commons on Foreign Affairs and International Development heard from witnesses who gave Members of Parliament an update on the conflict between the Francophone Government of Cameroon and the English speaking people of Southern Cameroons that has been escalating since 2016.

The Vice President of the Ambazonia Interim Gov ernment said “the Biya French Cameroun regime is the party the most worried about any international intervention and it is doing all it can to block any European Union or United Nations fact finding mission.”

Yerima told a cream of journalists in the Rainbow nation via zoom that the “Insecurity in Southern Cameroons-Ambazonia is of great benefit to the corrupt French Cameroun government and military officials, and on the basis that the French Cameroun dictator Paul Biya is 88-years-old and suffering from dementia, the French Cameroun criminals are adopting deceptive measures to prevent the establishment of peace in the two Cameroons.”

Elsewhere in his comments, Vice President Yerima said Southern Cameroonians will get to Buea and French Cameroun political elites are well aware.

By Chi Prudence Asong with files from SABC