What the Ambazonians, the Camerounese and the international community should take to their heart to prevent genocide, deescalate the situation and move towards a lasting solution

Taking all of the above written into account it baffles every reasonable mind how the international community can still allow such an old, incompetent, criminal, corrupted, non-bilingual, non-goodwilling dictator in power in Cameroon. Paul Biya must have real good friends not only in France or Switzerland or Israel, who are glad about the money he robbed from the Cameroonians and take care of his security to enjoy further business priviledges. Some sources say ex-Mossad guys protect Biya. It's time for the US to whistle these guys back then to that pretty unholy land called Israel. And although the UN, EU, US and AU know very vell about the illegality of the annexation of former Southern Cameroons by French Cameroun, they are astoundingly unengaged for Ambazonia or at least for a regime change in the neocolony of France called Cameroon. Yet, Paul Biya and the international community cannot be blamed for everything. There is also widespread crookedness and bribability a given fact in almost all government positions in both Cameroun and Ambazonia and the collective pulling of the population on one string into the direction of decorruption is blocked by a deep-sitting tribalism among some 240 tribes there. Nevertheless it is a big error of non-Africans who are not familiar with the African way of life and managing with politics to assume that all people in this region of the world would be easily corruptible. In the social fabric of the local communities and tribes the non-bribability when it comes to the protection of own family, clan, tribe or region is also a given fact; it is just that the identification with the historically relatively new, post-colonial, national political system is not deep yet and so the loyalty towards the state is rarely standing above the loyalty towards the tribe or family. It is very problematic when Europeans say the corruption index in “Sub-Sahara-Africa” is higher than in Europe, because in the Northern Hemisphere you also have the danger of nuclear war and a widespread disappearance of social stronghold in families or “tribes”, not to mention the overpowering of the political system by the banking and media system nowadays. So although it may be true that Africa is not as developed as Europe, America, Asia in some technological or infrastructure aspects, it is neither fair nor truly correct to conclude that the Africans would be more corrupt and therefore neo-colonialism from any side would be necessary. The Africans are willing and able to govern themselves well and they would immediately do it, if only the octopus of neo-colonialist exploitation, military occupation and puppet regime implementation would disappear. But this ain’t going to happen so soon despite all political and educational awakening in Africa, because the corporations from non-Africa who enjoy incredible profits out of the exploitation of Africa’s resources will do what they can to buy themselves favorable politicians and paramilitary security forces. Therefore the only chance a small but rich country like Ambazonia has to liberate herself from all that evil is to mobilize her masses and sharpen their best of the best to lead a liberation fight which does not make any foul compromise with the occupiers anymore. This fight has to say from the start: we make a clear cut with all neo-colonialist oppressors and exploiters now and will not rest until a big clean-up of whole Cameroon has taken place which will comprise a complete regime change, a constitution change and two-state-solution Ambazonia and Cameroun, because Cameroun has cut too many and too deep wounds into Ambazonia in order for them to ever go into a federation again. The Anglophone and Francophone styles of political organization, entrepreneurism and law are also too different to work well together when pressed into one and the same state. Canada may be an exception, but that was reached after bitter wars and Africa cannot afford these kind of wars now.  

So in the whole struggle for a good, lasting, peaceful solution in the geographical region which is now called “Cameroon” but which is historically meant to get rid of all colonial names and ways of rulings, for example as Ambazonia and Sanagia in the future, everybody, be it native Africans from there or anybody from anywhere, is well advised to support the liberation of all “Cameroonians” from any type of neo-colonialism, be it from the French, British, German, American, Chinese, Camerounian or Nigerian side, and allow them to govern themselves as they want and to own the lands and resources on which they live. Only this creates lasting peace.

This support includes the natural, God-given human right of self-defense against all terrorism or war-crimes like genocide, and because the Biya regime is doing exactly that to the Ambazonians right now, the international community has to send the strongest possible signals to Biya, to the Camneroonian government and to all countries who back up this government, to stop that immediately, to get the system of Cameroon radically reformed and to give Ambazonia the means to protect her citizens and to rebuild a functioning state. And as long as the international community is not doing enough into this direction, both the Ambazonians and the Camerounese have the moral obligation to mobilize the whole population against that vicious Biya-Françafrique-system. And as long as the Francophone population in Cameroon is not doing that because they are too brainwashed by the censored media and too assimiliated to the slave master, the Anglophone population, namely the Ambazonians or Ambalanders, have to fight their revolution towards true freedom from neo-colonialism through first and be the pioneers of change. They have a good chance to defeat the occupying troops of “La Regime” on the territory of Ambazonia, because their bush guerilla knows the terrain much better and their foot soldiers know for what they are fighting for whereas the mercenaries of Biya just fight for money and their indoctrination about a “glorious and indivisible Cameroon under the great leader Biya” is crumbling because its less and less convincing. The cleptocracy of Biya and his generals goes even so far to leave their own foot soldiers hungry and without adequate medical treatment.

Nevertheless the buildup of an efficient Ambazonian Self Defense is very difficult, when there is no bigger power as sponsor yet and when the Ambazonian diaspora is too divided into political factions which each try to grab the power and consume the most raised funds. Until 2017 the scope of opinions among these many factions about the ultimate political goal for Ambazonia aka “Southern Cameroons” was still wide, because many couldn’t believe that it may be possible to actually defeat the occupier and therefore the favorism for various degrees of compromises with “La Regime” prevailed. Only since the occupier is committing more and more war crimes and burning more and more villages and even roast people alive and putting the whole population of Ambazonia into fear and terror during 2018, the general conviction to go for full independence and full war against the enemy is becoming predominant in all Ambazonian groups. Never enslaved and francophonized and massacred again! Yet from mere willingness to ableness is always a big step and Biya’s agents try hard to sow seeds of division between the Ambazonians by bribing chiefs to betray the Ambazonian guerilla. Also many Ambazonians are still trying to seek amicable solutions by forms of dialogue or negotiations rather than by setting ultimatums. So despite the immense suffering of the Ambazonians and having all good arguments on their side the buildup of the Ambazonian Homeland Defense to a size and quality which is sufficient to kick the occupier out is going too slow for being sure that genocide can be prevented. Because if it would go faster, then Biya’s occupation troops would not even dare to attack anymore and that would bring everybody closer to a peaceful solution. One key factor in the liberation fight is the support by neighbor Nigeria. Officially the government of Nigeria is not providing safehavens for Ambazonian training camps, but inofficially everything is possible for money in Nigeria. So the prime question for Ambazonia is fundraising and then effective finance control so that the funds do actually reach the footsoldiers and equipment organizers. The second key factor is the global info campaign about the truth in Cameroon and Ambazonia which should achieve that the majority of journalists, parliamentarians and organizations in the world do not believe the lying French (Camerounese) media narratives anymore and they start distinguishing between the attacking aggressor (Cameroun), who started violence abroad first, and the defending victim (Ambazonia), who stays in the homeland. And the third key factor is that the Ambazonians show to the world that they are not only thinking about themselves and short term but also for the harmony in the whole area of Nigeria, Ambazonia, Cameroun long term becoming beneficial for all of Africa by offering good proposals for new modern, democratic, anti-neocolonial, anti-corruption constitution drafts for both states each: Ambazonia and Cameroun (Sanagia?). The world has to see that the Ambazonians are not troublemakers but peacemakers with the will to wish also good and positive reform for their neighbors. And this reform shall not eradicate all traditional regional and local uniqueness in culture and ways of self-governance either, but allow a kind of African-type federalism in each of the states Ambazonia and Cameroun (Sanagia) independently, so that everything which can be self-governed locally shall be governed locally (for example way of architecture, culture, protection of regional markets) and everything which should be standardized nationwide should be governed federally (for example transport system, health care system, defense), each in two nations.  

Africa and especially Cameroon need to find a reasonable solution between traditional regionalism and modern globalism, which doesn’t allow anymore to be corrupted by either side. Cameroon needs to establish a new status quo of self-governance accompanied by a much stricter finance control system and a much higher developed infrastructure. And for that it is necessary for all non-Africans to understand that the present form of corruption under dictator Biya is an imported form of corruption by the French rule which played the game of divide & rule for decades and now the Cameroonians and Ambazonians need to unlearn their habits of managing with that systemic corruption and find trust again in a new system of integrity which has got also power elites of integrity who can be easily impeached and fired as soon as they do wrong. Everything depends on the exchange of corrupt leadership by trustworthy, ungreedy leadership and the reliability of the effective removal or punishment of violators of the new rules. For that it needs political education of the masses, but also more self-confidence of regional cultures.      

For now, the most urgent thing is that Ambazonia builds up her defense capabilities against the illegal aggression of the occupying forces of dictator Paul Biya and/or France and by principle against any other potential neo-colonizer in the future. This most beautiful and rich country Ambaland also needs to intensify all her diplomatic efforts with any anti-Françafrique power and organization in the world, in order to get big time financial, military, political and legal support. Everything Ambazonia does shall be completely inside the frame of international law. In principle, Ambazonia shall make LRC withdraw by means of deterrence and diplomacy rather than by triggering a spiral of violence with France. France does not want to look like the massacreur of good, innocent people in international media, that is a leverage Ambazonia can put a grip on, but it requires that the Ambazonians make it far more wellknown in international media what’s really going on in Cameroon and Ambazonia and how much France corrupted and exploited the place while never building anything up. For example the railway system in Cameroon is run by the French company Bolore and after a train accident in 2017 with some 80 deaths Bolore did nothing for the victims or to modernize the rails. Since France is also doing a lot to split the Ambazonian factions, a Southern Sudan scenario of endless infighting must be avoided at any cost. So all pro-independence revolutionary groups, parties, leaders and the Ambazonian Interim Government and Restoration Collaboration Council have to optimize their internal unity, cooperation, guerilla coordination, funding, public messaging synchronizing and operational functioning. The ethnically very diverse Ambazonians have to speak more with one voice and pull like one man on the same string into the same direction towards a reasonable long term two-state solution for whole Cameroon, so that the likeliness that a big power or investor will trust enough in the reliability that Ambazonian leaders are financing and fighting the fight until the Ambazonians regain the control over their territory and establish reasonable political-economic conditions as much as the Francophones in Cameroun also get rid of “La Regime” and come to true democracy. To achieve military victory over France & French Cameroun is not that difficult, if the Ambazonians coordinate themselves well, because they know what they are fighting for and the enemy doesn’t, but after victory the prevention of the repeated sellout of the own land to foreign corporations is another big task. So one step after the other. As long as the Ambazonian factions are not in overwhelming majority on the same page concerning homeland defense and new constitution, Biya’s occupying troops will not move out one millimeter. First the goal is to reach Buea and hoist the Ambazonian flag on the government building, organize the first national assembly of interim groups and leaders who prepare elections, candidacy conditions, referendum and ratification of the new constitution. Later, as soon as French Cameroun has reformed herself in the post-Biya-era too, then Ambazonia may or may not make some kind of “brother-and-sister”-agreement with “Sanagia” in form of mutually beneficial treaties. 

But how to defeat thousands of soldiers and mercenaries of Biya and “superpower” France when the own military is still so small and all the world around seems to ignore the Ambazonians?

By improving the internal fundraising among all Ambazonians and by sending secret diplomatic missions to potential investors and powers and showing them a convincing economic plan, the legal constitutional framework, and the type of reformed government Ambazonia and Cameroun shall each have independently, which also shall be able to fight corruption much better from the start and by convincing the investors that under the free Ambazonia fair deals will lead to a win-win for every side. Ambazonias still have to make much more wind about themselves and their capabilities on all media channels worldwide and to weld a global alliance against the French exploitation mafia in Africa. Key is the understanding that plain robbery in a neocolonialist slavemaster-slave-relationship is no promising business model anymore compared to fair partnership and mutual win-win-situations in freedom. That should be obvious for everybody, but there is still so much complacency and ignorance to overcome, even among Ambazonians, which just lets French Cameroun do what they want, because the greedy ones profit from the French rule and the good-willing ones in UN, EU, US, AU for example are so overwhelmed with other problems in the world, that they brush Sub-Sahara-African problems under the carpet. Nevertheless, the growing refugee problem coming from Africa into non-Africa should be a wake up call for all the lazy bones and ignorants.

So the Ambazonians, Camerounese and stakeholders worldwide need to be provided with a convincing plan which contains the economic, legal, military and political redesign of whole Cameroon. It should be obvious by the displayed facts that the big clean-up of Cameroon is an absolute necessity, if we want to prevent most terrible outcomes of the Biya Regime in its end stadium of power struggle, like genocide, famines and refugee floods. All reform oriented groups have to be methodically provided with the right documents downloadable from Ambazonia’s and Cameroun's state websites which shall “tell it all” as a political education for everybody, and the headline slogans in the global information campaign should be:

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“The big clean-up of Cameroon starts now (and Ambazonia shows how!)”,

“There is no Anglophone problem in Cameroon; there is neo-colonialist cleptocracy problem in all of Cameroon”,

“Ambazonia says No to Françafrique”,

“Stop Françafrique – Start African Self-Governance”,

“Ambaland – the most promised land there is!”.

The biggest cornerstone for the international recognition of Ambazonia’s sovereign statehood is the fact that the former British colonialists recognized the British Southern Cameroons in 1960 as sovereign people already by not only releasing it from the status as mere UN Trust Territory but also in form of providing an own constitution and passports for the Southern Cameroons as well. Also the British never urged for a ratification of the later artificial union between Southern Cameroons and French Cameroun, so the statehood of Southern Cameroons aka Ambazonia or Ambaland stands on constitutional ground. Every member of the Ambazonian IG or ARCC has to insist on this constitutionally given sovereignty and independence during all the negotiations and public debates. Yet, since the two dictators of Cameroon since 1961, Ahijo and Biya, have let the pseudo-union between SC and LRC look relatively stable until 2016, the world does not want to question France on it till today and France does not want to question her Françafrique either, so the Ambazonians still have to fight for their rights and full self-governance before courts, in the media, on political stage, before the UN, AU, EU, US and just everywhere on all levels, including militarily, because when there is no power behind words then nobody takes you seriously. There is hardly any force of arguments when there is no argument of force behind them.

The most important part of effective self defense of the Ambazonian homeland against the French Camerounese aggression is making the French media unable to paint the Ambazonian liberators as terrorists or secessionists. Everything, really everything must be done to take out the wind of the sails of the enemy in this respect. Every Ambazonian has to become an info-warrior who is firing the truth about Ambazonia daily to at least 10 journalists, parliamentarians or organizations all over the world. Internet and phones make it possible. Biya is misusing his mercenary and military equipment against “his own” population instead against Boko Haram! So who is the terrorist? What is a senile dictator, who was never elected in fair, democratic, unmanipulated elections and is violating any constitution and law on a daily basis, doing on international political stage instead of in a prison cell anyway? Who really wants genocide or thinks neocolonialism 3:0 would be profitable in the long run?

The second most important part of effective self defense and reconquering the own territory is to not provoke the enemy unnecessarily but to starve him out by cutting his supply routes, financial resources, communication frequencies, fighting morale, "connections", international support, … It would be good to reach public statements signed by all leaders of Ambazonia which confirm the will to never give up on this until Ambazonia is free from the occupier, so that the enemy will learn from the start that occupying Ambazonia is like America wanting to conquer Vietnam. All Camerounese occupying soldiers shall learn in French for which outdated, hopeless system of ocotgenerians they are risking their lives.  

The third trump card the Ambazonians have is that the enemy soldiers just fight a highly risky and injust agressor’s fight for food and money whereas the Ambazonian soldiers fight for defending innocent civilians and the good cause of reform and modernization. So enemy soldiers might be easily convinced to defect or sabotage. To undermine the loyality of the enemy soldier to a senile, criminal, illegitimate dictator and colonizer, who is robbing even their own fellow citizens, should not be so difficult. Strategically the making of your foe to a friend is Ambazonia’s most important war front. .  

In summary the liberation fight should run under the following basic assumptions:

1. It is not a secession, because “Southern Cameroons” = Ambazonia has never been legally united with French Cameroon, so it is a restoration of statehood, a reestablishment of a once given independence, which had already existed 1960

2. It is not a language problem between Anglophones and Francophones in Cameroon but it is a problem of grave malgovernance by Françafrique and its puppet dictator Paul Biya and ending both Françafrique and the Biya-regime in both Ambazonia (former Anglophone part of Cameroon) and Sanagia (former French part of Cameroon) is absolutely necessary to solve that problem

3. In international secret diplomatic missions with the United Kingdom and France shall be achieved that the UK is not blamed for the past mistakes but praised for the present wisdom and France is not feeling that it will loose all business connections. Both shall be made convinced that separating Ambazonia and “Sanagia” will not worsen the relationship between the British and the French.

4. Also the Nigerian government shall not be urged to make a public statement in favor of Ambazonia, but the local Nigerian leaders in the border region just need to support Ambazonia.

5. The problem could be solved peacefully, if the Francophones are made to understand that a free and independent Ambazonia is not a threat but a chance and if the international pressure on and shaming of the present form of Françafrique is done methodically in bulk quantity and that France also gets an acceptable proposal for an alternative way of Francafrique. But as their peaceful withdrawal is is not likely, it is also necessary for Ambazonia to build up serious self-defense forces including professionally trained bush guerilla. Yet, tactically, these forces’ speakers should rather say in the media: “We are helping the world in the fight against terrorists and criminal dictatorships.” And not declare war against a much stronger enemy, until the Ambazonian homeland defense is strong enough to cut all supply routes of the enemy simultaneously. No unnecessary provocation of the enemy in order to prevent getting civilians massacred but passive resistance and giving all military leaders of the enemy maximum fear.

6. The frontline should be moved from the homeland into the homes of the enemy leaders.

7. Half-baken “solutions” like federation between Ambazonia and Sanagia aka LRC and SC or like only exchanging heads but keeping the same system do not help at all, it needs an eradication of the corruption by the root and in the Cameroonian system the fish stinks from the top and that is located in the French way of ruling things by corruption and divide & rule and by blocking the buildup of own African infracstructure or industry. The other stinking part of the fish is the widespread belief of non-Africans that sub-Saharan Africans cannot self-govern well. This has to be disproven by the Ambazonians themselves. 

8. Recently the young French president announced to tackle the problems with former French colonies in Africa by the roots, that raises chances to gradually diminish the French rule in Ambazonia and Sanagia, but a sound skepticism towards Paris should prevail, because the history of French colonialism and foreign policy does not allow much hope for significant turnarounds and all in all we still have to see how much power the new young president Macron has against the French establishment and foreign intelligence

9. The European Marshall Plan With Sub-Sahara Africa contradicts Francafrique, let’s hope that’s not only a paper tiger, and bring up all non-French European powers to speak out against the systemic robbery of Africa by Françafrique. 

10. Since the AU is very corrupted by France and France-friendly donors Ambazonia needs to filter those African governments which are anti-Françafrique and work closer with them so that they lobby for Ambazonian independence in the AU.

11. The African Union may find other types of national sovereignty as the UN has defined. The collusion of some leaders in the African Union with France or other non-African neocolonialists needs to be addressed in media and the “bad guys’ in the AU need to be distinguished from the “good guys” and being exposed.

12. During times of genocide and fight for survival of a people all political factions of this people have to force their leaders to come and sit together in a war room to do a decent SWOT analysis in which the true Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats of/for both themselves and the enemy will come out. On basis of this and an honest confession of each leader about where the strength of another leader could fill the gap of an own weakness there could be found a higher level of consensus altogether, which may be laid down in written form and signed even, so that everyone feels obliged to keep to it in future. The various revolutionary or political groups have to synchronize and gauge their press releases and formulate in which details, goals and methods they have a consensus with other groups and where they still see differences. Some decisive parts need to stay secret though. It’s the leaders’ job and talent to sort out, what goes to the public and what not. It does not matter, whether you call the union of all leaders an “interim government” or a “union of groups”, what matters is that they base their actions on a common strategy which really works and that strategy can only be found if the assessments of the many foot soldiers are done well, and the data was true and interpreted with insight, vision and realism.  

13. The “Republic of Ambazonia” which HRH Fon Fongum Dinka established before international law and the “Federal Republic of Ambazonia” which the Interim Government and the ARCC promote, shall become one and the same thing, as going to be defined in one and the same new constitution of that same sovereign state.

14. Fon Dinka shall open the way to elections of a new, younger Head of State, to a referendum about at least two versions of a new constitution carried out as soon as the Ambazonian security forces have regained control over the Ambazonian territory, to sueing Cameroon for robbing Ambazonian oil before the International Court of the Law of the Seas, and to the election of a national parliament. 

15. The IG and ARCC of Ambazonia shall define their collaboration rules in detail so that every member gets to know very well what will happen to anybody who is violating the common rules, which were signed by all leaders. 

The core of the strategy is constitutional reform. The outdated neocolonialist constitutions of both Ambazonia aka  Southern Cameroons and French Cameroun aka Sanagia must be replaced by two new, well-drafted, modern, democratic, anti-neocolonialist, anti-corruption constitutions to form two independent countries, Ambazonia and Cameroun (Sanagia). Ambazonia may incline more towards common law, Sanagia my incline more to civil law. But the decisive part is that none of them is inclined to neo-colonialist dependency and top-down-corruption anymore, and that they won't face each other as enemies anymore, but as friends. 

The French Camerounese have to understand that Ambazonian liberty and sovereignty will only help them to also get free from the neocolonialist octopus!  

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