9, May 2018
Manyu Diaspora Advisory Committee calls for a total boycott of May 20th 0
Manyu Diaspora Advisory Committee
Urgent Press release
#0010of 07thMay2018
Subject: GET READY TO BOYCOTT BLOODY 20THMAY
To: All Parents, sons, and daughters of Manyu:
The Manyu Diaspora Advisory Committee will like to draw your attention to this fake Celebration that the secret cult government of Paul Biya has continued to use to manipulate our minds, distort our history, reinforce our status of second class citizens/slaves, and uplift themselves as the masters over our territory.
Why celebrate 20hMay when thousands of our own youths have been forced into exile in Nigeria, and thousands of others are killed or imprisoned in concentration camps across La Republic du Cameroun territory, and our villages and towns burnt to the ground by the Terrorist regime of Yaoundé?
What are you going to be celebrating when our towns, villages, and streets are undergoing full scale terrorism by the illiterate soldiers of Paul Biya, who rape, kill, and steal from our farms and houses?
Why would you want Biya’s propaganda CRTV to broadcast images of your marching children to the world, portraying them as “happy kids”, when in fact these children are living in hell and have no future at all in Biya’s Cameroun, where his thugs continue to intensify their acts of aggression upon our people?
We know the shameless CPDM shall send its corrupt slaves like the ostracized Tabetando, Mengot,Mrs. Okpu, Senator Anja and Hon. Egeli Elias to come and convince parents to send their children go out and march on the 20th of May.
You love your children, no doubt. But we are afraid these greedy Manyu CPDM slaves love just one thing-Power and Money. They will sell all of us to Paul Biya so long as money gets into their accounts. These outlawed traitors already know about Biya’s secret plot to send out his military disguised as “secessionists” between now and the20thMay to kill your children aged 13 and above on that day, blame it on “Ambazonian Restoration Forces” and then arrest your surviving children.
Have you not already seen them burn your schools, markets, homes, entire villages, then turn around and blame you for their cowardly acts of cruelty? Do not give them another chance to kill your children. You can rebuild your houses, but you can never bring your dead children back to life.
Great People of Manyu, Keep your children far away from 20thMay Celebrations. Boycott it. Keep your children safe at home. There shall be time for us to name our own holidays and proudly celebrate together.
Sincerely thankful,
The Manyu Diaspora Advisory Committee
11, May 2018
US: Settlement reached in LA shooting of Cameroonian homeless man 0
A settlement of US$1.9 million was reached Thursday in a civil lawsuit stemming from the fatal police shooting of a homeless black man on Skid Row in Los Angeles three years ago, attorneys said.
A jury earlier in the day found two police officers liable for financial damages in the shooting death of Charly “Africa” Keunang, a transient from Cameroon.
Jurors were set to begin the damages phase of the trial when the settlement was announced. The agreement, which requires City Council approval, resolves all fees, costs and claims and closes any future litigation over Keunang’s death, City News Service reported. The settlement will go to Keunang’s family if approved.
The eight-member jury unanimously determined that Officer Francisco Martinez deprived Keunang of his Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable force and that Sgt. Chand Syed breached his duty as a supervisor to intervene during the fatal encounter.
Prosecutors in 2016 declined to file charges against the officers after it was determined the shooting justified because Keunang grabbed a rookie officer’s gun during a struggle March 1, 2015.
The Los Angeles Police Department issued a statement saying that it stands by the findings of the LAPD, the city Police Commission and the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office that “the uses of force by our officers were consistent with the law and Department policy.”
LAPD officers “make every effort to safely take suspects into custody without the use of force,” the statement said. “In this situation, force was necessary because of the violent behaviour of the suspect.”
Officers were responding to reports that Keunang, 43, a Cameroon national, had threatened another man living on the street in the section of the city teeming with homeless people.
Video of the shooting by a bystander was viewed millions of times online and prompted protests in the city and drew comparisons with the deaths of other black men killed by officers in the U.S.
A lawyer representing Keunang’s family in the lawsuit disputed that the homeless man ever had hold of an officer’s gun.
The Police Commission cleared officers of the shooting, though it found one officer’s tactics violated policy. It did not publicly reveal what policy was violated.
Keunang’s family sued the city of Los Angeles and four officers, seeking unspecified compensatory and punitive damages on allegations of wrongful death, negligence and civil rights violations.
The jury cleared a third defendant, Officer Daniel Torres, while former Officer Joshua Volasgis — who was named as a defendant — had been expected to face proceedings in state court, but the settlement effectively ends that case, said Deputy City Attorney Christian R. Bojorquez.
Source: CTVNews