The Biya Francophone army’s initial assault on Southern Cameroons was meant to be a show of superior military might and overwhelming force. But the reality on the ground is very different as Ambazonian Self-Defense Forces are now heading to Buea, the historic capital of British Southern Cameroons.

The Ambazonian fighters arrived at the gates of Muea early today the 15 of May, 2018, less than a month after the Interim Government of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia united all self defense grounds into the Ambazonia Self-Defense Council Restoration Forces. And with the decisive battle for Buea looming, the UK House of Common has reportedly held a debate on the crisis in Southern Cameroons.

But there was a problem with today’s attacks in Buea launched by the Southern Cameroons Restoration Forces – the lack of an enemy. There was small arms fire from government forces and by close to evening this had petered out entirely. The city looked as if it had been deserted by government soldiers.

Immediately after the attacks, the French Cameroun army arrested several innocent civilians and it is still unclear if the Amba fighters trooped in from Muyenge or Kumba.  Today’s scene in Buea was really like a movie and it sounded great to the majority following of the Interim Government.  There was panic everywhere, men and women screaming and shouting, running across, lots of noise, lots of energy, but it wasn’t a long battle.

By Chi Prudence Asong

Southern Cameroonians in Western Europe and North America have saluted the decision by the Acting President of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia endorsing the policy of self-defense. Supporters of the Interim Government on Ground Zero have also welcomed the move declaring victory after the IG succeeded in unifying all defense groups under the Ambazonia Self-Defense Council. But the Interim Government hasn’t learnt the lessons of how far the Biya regime has gone in corrupting the UN and the Africa Union systems. Unless some sort of action is taken deep inside Yaoundé, the Biya Francophone government’s slaughter of Southern Cameroonians in the cruelest and most illegal of ways is sure to continue apace.

Tactically, self-defense does not seem successful enough in urban centers such as Buea, Limbe, Kumba and Bamenda. French Cameroun’s oft-exaggerated military capabilities have turned out to be impotent. Questions are now swirling over self-defense’s effectiveness and long-term impact on the revolution following silly and childish comments made by the new US ambassador to Yaoundé,  Peter Barlerin last week describing the responsible leadership of the Southern Cameroons people “…a very tiny minority of Cameroonian-born individuals living in the United States”.

The Ambazonian Communications Secretary, Hon. Chris Anu said the self-defense objective is to degrade the Biya regime’s killing capability and deter Biya from exterminating the Southern Cameroons population. Our senior correspondent in the Southern Zone hinted recently that the IG objective has been fulfilled.

No Western diplomat in Yaoundé has articulated how the ongoing killings of innocent Southern Cameroonian citizens fit into a larger diplomatic or political strategy in resolving the Anglophone crisis. Likely, there is none. No UN, EU or AU official has said anything about President Biya’s mass atrocities, his war crimes or his crimes against humanity. The clear message to President Biya from Ambassador Peter Barlerin is that Biya is free to keep killing Southern Cameroonians.

Only a few meters from the US embassy in Yaoundé precisely at the Commissariat Central, Biya has been running a torture and killing factory that former US ambassador Frances D. Cook called the worst machinery of cruel death inside Africa. Some brave French Cameroun defector soldiers have provided to Acting President Dr. Samuel Ikome Sako documentary evidence of Biya’s torture and murder of thousands of Southern Cameroons civilians in custody. It is estimated that some 2500 including the President of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia, Sisiku Ayuk Julius Tabe still linger in Biya’s jails.

French Cameroun soldiers are using a siege to starve civilians in Lebialem, Belo, Akwaya and in Muyenge.  Biya regime artillery shelling alone has killed hundreds of innocent Southern Cameroons civilians including traditional rulers. Cameroon government forces have raided hospitals and targeted civilians from the air. All these atrocities are violations of international norms and laws that the world shouldn’t tolerate. But they are continuing in Southern Cameroons under the watchful eyes of Ambassador Peter Barlerin.

The Interim Government of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia should ignore Ambassador Peter Barlerin and his female acolyte at the US State Department and liaise with the US Congress to facilitate the application of several other tools at the US Congress disposal to stop Biya’s ongoing war crimes and crimes against humanity, and to impose justice and accountability for the perpetrators.

By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai

Western air safety experts say the disappearance in 2014 of Malaysia Airline MH370 flight was the result of a murder-suicide mission by the plane’s Captain Zaharie Amad Shah.

The conclusion was revealed by a panel of international air transportation specialists discussing the 2014 incident during an Australian TV news program, 60 Minutes, on Sunday, when they agreed that the pilot deliberately hijacked the plane and brought it down in the southern Indian Ocean, where they said the pilot knew the aircraft could not be located.

“This was planned, this was deliberate, and it was done over an extended period of time,” said Martin Dolan, the chief commissioner of the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB), who spent two years heading the search for the airliner.

Dolan dismissed the possibility that terrorism was involved, saying, “If this had been a terrorist event, it’s almost invariable that a terrorist organization will claim credit for the event. There was no such claim made.”

The Malaysia Airlines jet was on a routine flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014 with 239 people on board when it disappeared.

Analysis of satellite data indicated that it ran out of fuel and crashed in the Indian Ocean west of Australia, thousands of miles from its intended destination. The biggest underwater search in history, coordinated by ATSB, was called off in January 2017 after two years.

Six days after the MH370 disappeared, the houses of the 53-year-old Zaharie and first officer Fariq Abdul Hamid were searched in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur, and the computer equipment seized contained evidence suggesting that Zaharie had used flight simulation software to prepare for diverting the aircraft.

Captain Simon Hardy, a British pilot and Boeing 777 specialist and instructor who has flown the plane widely in Asia, said Zaharie’s mission was “planned meticulously to make the aircraft disappear,” including by flying along the Thai-Malaysian frontier to avoid either side taking action.

“If you were commissioning me to make a 777 disappear, I would do exactly the same thing,” he said during the TV program.

Additionally, a former senior investigator with Canada’s Transportation Safety Board, Larry Vance, said he believed Zaharie put on an oxygen mask before depressurizing the aircraft to render the passengers and crew unconscious.

“There is no reason not to believe that the pilot did not depressurize the cabin to incapacitate the passengers,” he said.

The participating experts disagreed over whether Captain Zaharie was in control of the passenger plane at the time it plunged into the ocean. While Vance said he believed the pilot “ditched it deliberately to keep it as intact as possible,” Dolan said the evidence indicated “the aircraft spiraled into the ocean and crashed.”

Meanwhile, a second search of a wider area of the Indian Ocean seabed for the remains of MH370 was launched in January, conducted by a private firm called Ocean Infinity. The underwater exploration in an area north of the previous zone has so far found nothing related to the missing airliner and is likely to conclude in June.

Source: Presstv