– Political critic, Dieudonne Essomba
The massacres of the populations in a village in the North
West lead me to recall what I asked long before the outbreak of events, namely
that it was necessary to immediately return to the 1961 Federation or any other
renewed formula and this for many reasons:
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| Dieudonne Essomba |
1. Anglophones no longer want a unitary state. They really
don’t want more, no matter what reforms they can make. The unitary state
reminds them of all that has been done underhanded, violent, brutal and
dishonest. It is the word “unitary” itself that fuels the war and it must be
noted. We do not know exactly what the government gains by maintaining this
word despite the blood flows;
2. In
matters of Secession, the English-speaking Community enjoys three decisive
advantages which have made it impossible to maintain them in a unitary State:
a. They
are too numerous because a secession which covers 20% of the population is no
longer controllable by a unitary state; for information, the Secession of
Cabinda, Casamance, Corsica or Tibet does not cover 2% of the population;
b. They
have already lived under a federal regime, and they perceive this time as an
age or which harbored an irrepressible nostalgia;
vs. They have international legitimacy because they came to
French-speaking Cameroon under the aegis of the United Nations. In the event of
a conflict, their situation will attract the attention of the international
community, which will impose its solutions.
3.
Finally, in operational terms, the Federation makes it possible to better
combat the Secession by 3 mechanisms:
a. It
dries up the activity of the Secession since it also has its supporters
b. It
opposes a local police force that comes from the same sociological background,
a better knowledge of the terrain and has less of the same legitimacy.
The
national army then comes to support. Conversely, the National Army directly
confronts the Secession, it does not enjoy popular support and commits a large
number of blunders which gives it the appearance of an occupying force.
vs. It makes the attacks of the Secessionists very
difficult, the majority of the infrastructures are visible specific to the
local state.
The
people do not know that they expect nothing from the central state if these
infrastructures are destroyed, which leads them to dissociate themselves from
the actions of the Separatists.
Unfortunately,
our positions were fought on emotional and ideological bases. Furthermore, we
have been accused of all the names of birds: antipatriots, pro-Ambazonians,
traitors, etc.
Because what these wanted, it is to get rid of our posture
of cold analyst and great patriot to encourage the government to go to sink in
the stinking swamp where it struggles now desperately, without that we see
exactly problem.
And the
facts are there, hard and relentless: the English-speaking Secessionists will
never lay down their arms unless they are beaten, which is unlikely with the
unitary state! You must never believe that there will come a time when the
Secessionists, listening to the voice of wisdom, will quietly lay down their
arms to return humbly to the unitary state. Of course, there will be some
defections, but with little impact on the course of events.
Because, what is the Anglophone Secession?
1.
These are people who have started a rebellion with the main nudes and spears,
then small arms and now they have more sophisticated weapons: it is these
people who will lower their arms?
2. They
are people who feared the least sub-prefect and who complied before any commander
of a small brigade. Today they have driven out the state which finds itself
confined to a few secure cities. Are people like that going to lay down their
arms?
3.
These are people whose fall was not predicted in less than two weeks. It was
then believed that a small squad of gendarmes was going to end the movement.
But four years later, the situation got worse and it was they who imposed the
Dead Cities, the Dead Returns and the Dead Elections. Successfully, despite the
government’s desperate efforts. And do you see people like that laying down
their arms?
4. We
were told that this was an internal problem and there was no interference. But
there is an intervention increasingly supported by foreign countries and the
international community, and in the majority of cases, sympathy is on their
side. Rather, it is the hard-pressed government that tries to justify itself
with difficulty. Do you see people like that giving up arms?
5. Some
individuals whom we had said that the State is a Leviathan who never yields.
But after denying the anglophone problem, the same state finally recognized it,
before granting special statuses without counting other seductions like the
special recruitments of anglophones. The state has given in, and yet the
Secessionists give in absolutely nothing. They don’t want any debate! They only
want to fight to wrest their independence: it is people like that who can lay
down their arms?
6. The
crisis has already caused 3000 deaths, with villages razed to the ground, and
now, large-scale massacres attributed rightly or wrongly to the National Army.
These acts only aggravate the fracture and the determination of the combatants.
Are you going to ask people in this state of mind to lay down their arms?
It must
be said clearly, in this story, it is the separatist cause that is advancing,
that is gaining points on the military, diplomatic and media levels. The cause
of Cameroon that was believed to be gaining ground is losing ground.
And me,
to make a TERRIBLE REMINDER: Black Africa was born with four federal states
which had the disease to suppress the Federation: Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, and
Cameroon. The first 3 experienced victorious secessions, the only ones
elsewhere in Africa.
Cameroon,
last on the list, may also be following the same path.
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