URGENT REQUEST TO THE UNITED NATIONS and ADHERENTS OF THE INTERNATIONAL RULES-BASED ORDER

We, the people of the former British Southern Cameroons demand our statehood in the legitimate exercise of our right to self-determination.

The former British Southern Cameroons aka Ambazonia, an independent entity in international law is undergoing a brutal and merciless genocide due to a failed decolonization process. After the holocaust, the world said, “Never Again”. After Rwanda (1995) and Bosnia-Srebrenica (1995), the world said, “Never Again”. Well, the “Never Again” genocide is being horrendously visited on the people of the British Southern Cameroons, viciously executed by the Republic of Cameroon and supported by France. Strangely, the world mostly maintains an eerie silence.

We, the people of the British Southern Cameroons are victims of the two world wars, none of which we were remotely responsible for, yet the blood of our mothers, children, grandparents, and loved ones get spilled hourly with barbaric precision. Post WWI, the territory belonging to German Kamerun ended up in and with about 5 countries courtesy of the Treaty of Versailles (1919 to 1920). Some smaller parts ended up with Tchad, CAR, Congo, Gabon and Equatorial Guinea, while the remainder ended up as two League of Nations Trust Territories. French Cameroon and British Cameroon were two League of Nations (later United Nations) Trust B Territories. These Trust B territories belonged to the League of Nations/United Nations with France and Britain respectively entrusted as trustees/guardians. Between 1919 and 1961 several United Nations resolutions spoke to the status of these two Trust Territories.

i.)               Treaty of Versailles 1919 to 1920

ii.)              Trusteeship Agreement of 13th December 1946

iii.)             United Nations General Assembly Resolution 1514(XV) of 14th December 1960 (UN Doc A/RES/1514(XV), GAOR 15th Session Supp 16, 66). Paragraph 5 states,

 “Immediate steps shall be taken, in Trust and Non-Self-Governing Territories, or all other territories which have not yet attained independence, to transfer all powers to the people of those territories, without any conditions or reservations, in accordance with their freely expressed will and desire, without any distinction as to race, creed or color, in order to enable them to enjoy complete independence and freedom.”

 

iv.)             United Nations General Assembly Resolution 1541(XV) (5), of 15th December 1960

v.)              United Nations General Assembly Resolution 1608 (5) XV of April 21st, 1961. Paragraph 5 states;

“Invites the Administering Authority (United Kingdom), the Government of the Southern Cameroons (democratically elected), to initiate urgent discussions, with a view to finalizing before October 1, 1961, the arrangements by which the agreed and declared policies of the parties will be implemented. 994th plenary session, 21st April 1961.”

NOTE: No meeting as prescribed and mandated by UNRES 1608(XV)5 was ever held. Instead, French Cameroon annexed the British Southern Cameroons on September 30th, 1961, by its gendarmes and troops moving it, with the unlawful, but tacit approval of Great Britain.

 

vi.)             In place of independence and/or self-government as specified in the 1946 Agreement and article 76 a and b of the UN Charter, the Administering Authority (UK) in conspiracy with the UN invented “independence by joining” that never was and never has it existed. Instead of the decolonization of the territory, the UN turned a blind eye to an annexation orchestrated by France, with Britain’s tacit complicity, in breach of its duty to deliver independence to the British Southern Cameroons as mandated by UNRES 1514(XV). French diplomats have even affirmed this annexation in their memoirs. This lawless annexation that went against article 76 a & b of the U.N. Charter has since October 1961 not only politically maimed the former British Southern Cameroons and decapitated her institutions, but has also witnessed genocide and other war crimes meted on the people with impunity.

Other sources, rulings and treaties in international law that assert the right of the British Southern Cameroons to statehood include;

a.)    The Constitutive Act of the African Union, article 4(b): It calls on all African countries to respect their borders at independence.

b.)    Kevin Ngumne et Augustine Ndangam v. Republic of Cameroon. This was a case in the African Human Rights Court, where this organ of the United Nations in its 2009 Banjul Ruling, ruled in favor of the petitioners and authoritatively stated in article 20 of the ruling that the people of the British Southern Cameroons aka Ambazonia have a right to self-determination.

c.)    United Nations Security Council Resolution 269, of August 1969 and UN RES 276 of 1970. Just like French Cameroon’s annexation of the British Southern Cameroons, the United Nations Security Council proclaimed South Africa’s continued occupation of Namibia illegal, paving the way to Namibia’s ultimate freedom.

d.)   The French-British (Milner-Simon) Declaration of 10th July 1919 establishing the boundaries between French Cameroon Trusteeship and British Cameroon Trusteeship Territories.

e.)    The 1993 ICJ Ruling of Chad v. Libya on the Aouzou strip dispute.

Today, five years into a war waged by President Biya on November 30, 2017, there is a Rwandan-like genocide unfolding with over 500 villages burnt, over 45,000 killed, over 1.5 million internally displaced, over 1,000,000 refugees with 300,000 in neighboring Nigeria, over 5000 prisoners of conscience, and over 800,000 school-age students not going to school. For more on the genocide, visit: www.ambazoniagenocidelibrary.com

 

Like any people in the world such as Namibia, Eritrea and East Timor, those from the former British Southern Cameroons want to exercise their right to self-determination as prescribed in the UN Charter. The world watched the horrors of Bosnia and acted. Today, almost the entire democratic world drafts for Ukraine as the horrors become unbearable. Failure to act on the British Southern Cameroons aka Ambazonia translates into a veiled support of the genocidal forces of French Cameroon, and her principal, France. A selected application of the lessons of Nazi Germany.

We urge the African Union, the United Nations, the United States, the European and all adherents of the international rules-based order to compel La Republique du Cameroun to strictly respect article 4b of the African Union Constituent Act and all the aforementioned U.N. Resolutions by withdrawing from the British Southern Cameroons territory and limiting itself to her boundaries as of January 1st 1960, the date she obtained independence.