Anglophone Crisis: 1 million Signatures Needed to Force UN, AU and ICJ to Intervene-Organization

Pressure from the international community within the context of the raging Anglophone crisis is only intensifying especially at a time when the crisis is fast degenerating into an armed insurrection.

The Cameroon Report has learnt that in one of the latest moves, an international organization has launched a campaign to raise 1million signatures to petition Rwanda to take the Southern Cameroon’s case to the UN.

According to reports, the campaign is dubbed, “never again global campaigns to say no to genocide in the Southern Cameroons”.

According to the website managing this campaign called Change.org, 1 million Southern Cameroonians are expected to sign the petition which will be handed over to Rwanda that had itself once been a victim of genocide.

The organization in a historical background says, “On January 1st, 1960, Cameroun Republic had her independence. On October 1st, 1961, Southern Cameroons was coerced into a union with Cameroun Republic which resulted in the Federal Republic of Cameroon. Guarantees factored in the union included:

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- Two states of equal status within a federal structure that shall NEVER be changed.

Southern Cameroons became West Cameroon, and Cameroun Republic became East Cameroon.

In 1972 East Cameroon (80% of the population) violated the Federal Constitution and destroyed the federal nature of the country. The new country became known as the United Republic of Cameroon. This is the root cause of the ongoing "Anglophone Problem" in the Cameroun Republic” said the organization adding that “In 1984 East Cameroun reverted to Cameroun Republic thus relegating Southern Cameroons statehood into obscurity, and the Southern Cameroonian people bastardized”. 

“In a bid to ensure that the Rwandan style genocide does not happen in the Southern Cameroons, this campaign purposes to collect one million petitions, one for each Rwandan killed in the 1994 genocide. These petitions shall be brought before President Paul Kagame with a plea that he brings UNGA RES 1608 XV of April 21, 1961 before the International Court of Justice for interpretation. We equally call for a UN sponsored "Two Options Referendum Initiative" that will be open only to indigenous Southern Cameroonians to vote; and, only indigenous Southern Cameroonians will be the election officers/judges” the organization added.

According to the organization, the two options will be a return to the 1961 federal structure or outright independence.

It should be recalled that, Southern Cameroons activists have long sought a country that will take their cause to the UN given that a member state of the UN is needed to table the case before the UN general Assembly for it to be heard.

Rwanda which by itself had suffered from an active genocide that saw 1 million Rwandans slaughtered in cold blood has been tipped by Anglophone activities as the most apt country to channel their cause to the UN.

Since the campaign was launched online since last week, Anglophone activists mostly those living abroad have been campaigning for people to login to the website and sign the petition. At press time, TCR was unable to establish whether or not this campaign was attracting Anglophone Cameroonians back home.

However, it must be noted that the UN just like most international bodies, has repeatedly called for dialogue as a means to deal with the current Anglophone crisis.

President Paul Biya of Cameroon in the recent past, received in audience the UN SG and both dignitaries reportedly discussed the crisis even though windfalls of their discussions put in public space.

Compiled by FHM