The Southern Cameroons Peoples Organization (SCAPO) has filed an official
complaint to the Prosecutor of the ICC calling for the indictment of President Paul
Biya of French Cameroun and other political and military leaders of that country
for the crimes of genocide committed against the Bamileke people from 1962-
1970 and other subsequent crimes against humanity. It is believed that the total
number of Bamileke people killed between 1962-1970 could be up to 1,000,000.
However, the crime has been carefully concealed because it directly involved very
senior political figures in the French government. This implies that the genocide
against the Bamileke people was the first recorded (but not reported) genocide
on the African continent and may have taken place on a far larger scale than the
Rwandan genocide which happened a few decades later.
The complaint was supported by a 278-page document which shows that the
crimes of genocide were committed with full participation of the political and
military leaders of France and French Cameroun. SCAPO has decided to release
the entire 278 page document to the general public so that they can fully
appreciate the criminal nature of the regime that has been in power in French
Cameroun for 50 years.
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