British Southern Cameroonians (BSC) Restoration Government Responds To February 2008 Massacre in Cameroon

by Carlson Anyangwe
Head of Government

"Fellow British Southern Cameroonians:

The brutality that was carried out against our citizens this past week adds a sweltering sense of
urgency to the restoration of our stolen sovereignty. The most important thing you should do at this time is refraining from involving yourselves in the political affairs of the foreign country next door to us and east of the Mungo River. For these matters in the Cameroun Republic are veritable distractions from our total focus on restoring our independence. Paul Biya's brutality on our citizens this past week should make it even clearer and even more urgent that we should
not waver for a single moment from our determination to take our national sovereignty.

Your Restoration Government has chosen, for the time being, not to retaliate. Consider the kind of entity we are dealing with here. In his televised speech, when Biya used the phrase "apprentice sorcerers", he reminded us all, once again, that he is not normal human; that he is a demonic force, a blood thirsty sorcerer. Photos of the youths whom Biya's troops slaughtered this week depict this event as the veritable handiwork of a demon and seasoned "sorcerer". Yes, the British Southern Cameroons Restoration Government is at work to decolonize our country and restore our self-government. But in no way do we want to build our reclaimed sovereignty on
blood. For it is written, "those who come with the sword die with the sword." Unless forced to resort to force, our goal is to leave for our children the legacy of a nation that is built on the rule of law.
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Self defense is an inalienable right, inalienable because it is inherent in all humans, not derived from any law. And so international law and morality bow to it. Indeed, strikes, riots and revolutions have always been the preferred pathways out of oppressions and towards autonomy. The Boston Tea Party and the later American Revolution decolonized the people of the United States, transforming them into one of the greatest nations in the world today. Storming of the Bastille in 1789 freed the French from a tyrant as corrupt blood thirsty as Paul Biya.

To our neighbors suffering the brutal weight of this Biya regime, we offer our sympathy--since we fully share your grief--and we rise to stand with you as you fight to reclaim your God-given right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Biya's heavy handedness with you continues the state terrorism that Ahidjo directed against your parents in the 1960s. Time has not erased from human memory Ahidjo's genocide which killed more than half a million of your patriotic parents in the first decade of your independence “almost all of them Bassas and Bamileke. Time is not going to erase memory of the massacre that Paul Biya is now carrying out against your children today in
2008. Have no doubt that the world is witnessing that only the name has changed, for Biya's regime is a mere continuation of Ahidjo's 1960s regime.

Speaking to the nation on February 11, 2008, just two weeks earlier, Paul Biya pretended that the future was rosy for the youth of Cameroun Republic. Now, barely two weeks later, his helicopter gunship and machine guns slaughter these very youth, letting the world know that by "rosy" he actually meant a bloody future for you. And your offense? Asking for employment and
fair prices for basic needs. No family head butchers a hungry child for crying. If Biya were serving you or your country, he would never call you "apprentice sorcerers"; instead, he would relieve your pain. On national television last week, he would be talking like other presidents today when they meet a suffering community--with empathy in his eye and voice, not with vengeance and the fury of a blood thirsty vampire. You deserve better.

Fortunately, time favours you, not Biya who cannot turn back the clock. He represents the past, the dark past. The youths of Cameroun Republic represent the future, and the Cameroun Republic rightfully belongs to them. Do not give up. Continue your valiant struggle against the sorcery that holds you and your country hostage. Victory and history are on your side.
Once you free yourselves of the dark cloud that Biya and his regime have hung over you since 1982, we shall re-establish our ages long diplomatic and trade ties. We promise you our friendship and pledge to maintain good, exemplary, neighbourly ties with you. For now, harbour not the slightest doubt but that you have our total moral support. It is obvious that the freedom loving democratic world out there also sympathizes with you and supports you morally.

To our British Southern Cameroonians, your Restoration Government is hard on the program to return us to the state of independence, freedom and civilized rule. That is because the Southern Cameroons was practically independent, its people were free and government was civilized and a servant of the people and not their master. You shall have a major role to play in bringing us to our dream of freedom.