It was a rather long day in court.  The French Cameroun escort vans from the anti terrorist special Gendarmerie unit better known by its French acronym GPIGN showed up at the Kondengui High Security Prison in Yaoundé to transport the Southern Cameroons leaders to court at about 11.25 am.

The Ambazonian leaders got to court by midday and were greeted by a college of 60 lawyers from Bamenda, Kumbo, Buea, Kumba, Victoria, Tiko, Douala and Yaoundé led by Lead Counsel Batonier emeritus Eta Besong Jr including an impressive crowd of family members, friends and hundreds of  Ambazonians despite the heavy deployment of troops in and around the court premises. Southern Cameroonians came in their numbers and encouraged their leaders and reminded them to remain resolute.

Today’s court session was presided over by Lieutenant Colonel Misse Njone Jacques Baudouine and two civilian judges identified by our chief intelligence officer as Magistrates Ngouongue and Edou Mewoutou Armand.

The Francophone tribunal started at about 12.45pm with the usual military honours. The President opened the session and had barely explained the reasons for the last adjournment and how proceedings were going to be when Batonier Eta Besong Jr took the floor for and on behalf of the defense, raised issues with the composition of the court that included two civilian Magistrates against whom there was a pending Recusal Application that had not yet been determined by the President of the court of appeal in Yaounde.

Eta Besong’s eloquent arguments were backed up by brilliant submissions from Barristers Paddy Yong, Suh Fuh Benjamin, Akuwiyadze Joseph and Maitre Simh Emmanuel who iced the cake of defense submissions in persuasive French language.

The Commissaire du Gouvernement, Lieutenant Colonel Engono Thaddee and his deputy Magistrate Onambele made submissions for the State party while Barristers Achu Julius, Amazee Anthony, Tanifum Julius and Me Kengmoé submitted for the Civil Party.

The stormy court session lasted 3 hours and the court rose at 4.00pm to deliberate and deliver a ruling in 15 minutes. It was however not until 5.40 pm that sitting resumed and the court simply read out its decision to adjourn the case to the 23/07 for the Ambazonian leaders to be served with the Ruling of the Court of Appeal on the pending Recusal of the other members of the panel as mandatorily requested by law.

It should be noted that during the proceedings, a French Cameroun secret service officer got up and threatened some lawyers and Southern Cameroonians who were present in the court hall and then moved to the center of the court room and stared at the lawyers and population in court menacingly.

Barrister Eta Besong Jr upon hint from lawyers caused the President to summon the man who was identified as a spy in civilian dress from SED by name as Adjudant EBODE Luc. He was promptly warned by the judge and ordered out of the court hall. The Ambazonians leaders confirmed to our chief intelligence officer after the court session that Adjudant EBODE Luc was the leader of the torture team at SED when they were detained immediately after the illegal extradition from Abuja, Nigeria. He was seen several times hitting the heads of handcuffed Ambazonians against the wall in the night when taking them outside the cell for regular flogging including other forms of torture. He reportedly maltreated some nurses and a medical doctor who were brought from Manyu County to SED. The court session ended at 6 pm.

By Rita Akana in Yaounde

US Congressman Ron Kind held an event in La Crosse to highlight the political and humanitarian crisis in Southern Cameroons and called for diplomatic American intervention to ease the suffering.

Ethnic violence between the French speaking majority and the English speaking minority has reached crisis levels.

Kind recently returned from a visit to the region and is calling for legislation to condemn the violence and impose expectations on the Camaroon Government to do its part.

“One thing we have done already,” says KInd, “is we have pulled back some of the security funding assistance to their military forces because of the security concerns that we raised with them and we can do more of that.”

Kind says people in La Crosse and the U.S. should care about oppression and violence and work together to condemn it, no matter where it’s happening.

Source: WXOW.Com

Tension continues to mount between Ambazonia Restoration Forces and Cameroon government army soldiers in Southern Cameroons. It follows a protracted conflict which has led some 500,000 indigenes fleeing the country.

In Bamenda, Brigadier General Agha Robinson Ndong who commands the French Cameroun 5th Joint Military Region recently observed that the region is desperate at this particular moment.

“I’m telling you again, that we might not be saints, we are not, but we do our best. So the population understands that. We are with them and we’ve come here not only to defend them, to encourage them to develop themselves”, General Ndong said.

The region is burdened with violence and instability as Cameroon government forces and Ambazonia Restoration fighters battle for control of the Northern Zone.

The French Cameroun army and government are desperate at this particular moment and they are using every means to smear the Ambazonian war of independence and to escape charges for crimes against humanity.

There have been allegations of threat, torture and execution- a claim human rights groups blame both sides for. But both the Cameroonian army and Ambazonia Restoration Forces deny the claim and blame the other party.

Southern Cameroonians claim to be sidelined by the country’s French speaking majority. Thousands have been killed and Amba forces have vowed to continue with the fighting.

Recently, Switzerland said it will mediate the crisis in the Central African nation but ordered the 86 year old President Biya to leave Geneva with immediate effect after violent protest staged by French speaking Cameroonians rocked the European nation.

Reported by AP with additional editing from Camcordnews

Cameroon says only a tiny fraction of the 285,000 Central African Republic refugees in the country have agreed to return to the CAR.  Despite a February peace deal and months of negotiations with Cameroon and the United Nations refugee agency, refugees say they do not feel safe enough to return home.

Forty-nine-year-old Florence Yaomby’s husband was killed in crossfire between rebels and government troops in the Central African Republic town of Mingala four years ago.

She fled to Cameroon for safety, where she has lived as a refugee ever since.

She says she spent her last three years studying in Yaounde to become an accountant.  Yaomby says if she returned to the CAR, she is not sure she would find a decent job.  She prefers to sell bottled water and soft drinks to university students in Yaounde, where there is peace, and take care of her three kids.  They are certain not to get a good education in her country, says Yaomby, because it is devastated by war.

The CAR has been rocked by violence since 2013 when mainly Muslim Seleka rebels ousted then-President Francois Bozize, prompting reprisals from mostly Christian militias.

In February, authorities reached a peace deal with 14 armed groups following United Nations-sponsored talks in Khartoum.  It was expected to usher in a period of stability and led to an agreement between Bangui, Yaounde, and the United Nations refugee agency for the CAR refugees in Cameroon to return home.

But only 6,000 refugees have so far agreed to leave.  Most like Yaomby refuse to return to the CAR, citing fears of violence in some areas and a country devastated by war.

Viviane Baikoua is the CAR’s minister for humanitarian action and reconciliation.  She says her country needs its citizens to return and help develop their communities and the nation.

She says she is reiterating to her compatriots who agree to voluntarily return that they will be treated with dignity and that the CAR will protect them and respect all conventions it has signed to uphold their rights back home.

The UNHCR representative in the CAR, Buti Kale, says violence has declined since the peace deal, especially in the country’s western and southwestern areas.

“One would not say everything is perfect, but one would say for all those who are willing to go back, there are chances that they would be well reinserted into their areas of origin,” Kali said.

But several armed groups have rejected President Faustin-Archange Touadéra’s cabinet because only six of the 14 armed groups that signed the peace are included.

Skeptics of the CAR peace deal point to similar agreements in 2014, 2015 and 2017, which quickly fell apart.

The U.N. says over 600,000 Central Africans remain as refugees in neighboring countries while over 650,000 are internally displaced.

Source: VOA

TOTAL LOCKDOWN OF AMBAZONIA AS OUR LEADERS GO TO LRC KANGAROO MILITARY COURTS TUESDAY 9th JULY 2019

Fellow Ambazonians,
I come to you with revolutionary greetings.
In September 2017, our people took to the streets to demand their civil and constitutional rights but were met with gunshots. Tens of our innocent armless citizens were murdered whilst engaging in peaceful protests. War was declared on us by the terrorist government of La Republique du Cameroun. Since then, hundreds of thousands of our people have been internally displaced, more than fifty thousand are living as refugees in Nigeria whilst more than three thousand have been brutally murdered. More than two hundred and ten of our villages have been burned down and thousands of our people are now living in the forests. The damage our innocent people have and are facing is unbearable.
On the fifth of January 2018, this terrorist government showed utter disdain for international law by abducting our leaders in Abuja, Nigeria. Their continuous detention at the Principal Prison in Yaounde is against international law despite the Abuja High Court Decision declaring their return to Nigeria and that they be paid Compensation by the Nigeria Government for illegally abducting and transferring them to Yaoundé. They have since been engaged in a mockery called a trial at the military court in Yaounde.
Last week’s visit of United States Congressmen and Congresswomen led by Mrs Karen Bass to Yaounde shows some of the work we have been doing in the background is paying dividends. It’s a small step but it’s in the right direction. As we continue exploring diplomatic and peaceful options to attain our independence, we MUST take all necessary measures to protect and defend ourselves.
Tomorrow, Tuesday the 9th of July 2019, our leaders will be appearing at the military court in Yaounde. We condemn their continuous detention and that of hundreds of our comrades detained unlawfully without trial in many prisons around La Republique du Cameroun.
Following tomorrow’s court appearance, your Interim Government in solidarity with our Ground Zero commanders and self-defense forces herby support and reinforce the Ground Zero tradition of complete shot down of the Ambazonia Territory each time our Leaders appear in Court. To this regard tomorrow, Tuesday the 9th of July 2019 be observed as a Lockdown all over our country, Ambazonia. This is to show solidarity with our leaders and contempt to the enemy. All business activities, schools, transportation services are called upon to respect this notice.
Monday remains our traditional Country Sunday until we free our land. The Interim Government thanks all Ambazonians on Ground Zero for all your sacrifices as we join efforts to free homeland.
As we continue to fight for our freedom, we would take this opportunity to remind you that it’s freedom or resistance forever.
God Bless You God Bless the Federal Republic of Ambazonia

Milton Taka SOS DCIT/IG SPOKESPERSON