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minority problem similar to that of any ethnic minority in that country like the Bamileke,
the Beti and the Bassa.
Q1. Is the exBritish Southern Cameroons an ethnic minority?
A:The BSC Question is a problem of the colonial annexation of one country by another. It
is therefore an international problem.
Q2. Why is it wrong to equate the Southern Cameroons question to that of an ethnic
minority?
A: The Southern Cameroons is a distinct and separate country that came into the failed
union after it had acquired the status of a selfgoverning territory. The prefederation
agreements placed the Southern Cameroons on equal status with la Republique du
Cameroun. It was on this understanding that the people of the Southern Cameroons voted
overwhelmingly to join la Republique du Cameroun in the UNimposed plebiBSCite on
February 11, 1961.
The territory enjoyed a democratic culture with a government headed by the Prime
Minister, an independent judiciary, a legislature and the House of Chiefs. All these
structures were unilaterally, unconstitutionally and fraudulently abolished by the two
Frenchcontrolled dictators that have successively ruled the Republic of Cameroun (LRC)
till date.
Q3. Is the exBritish Southern Cameroons a minority as la Republique du Cameroun
classifies it?
A: This is a deceptive ploy by LRC to evade what is in reality a problem of colonial
annexation. The simple truth is that in 1961 the U.N. sponsored the unification of two of
its former Trust Territories that had separately attained sovereign independence on 1st
January 1960 in the case of LRC and 1st October 1961 in the case of BBSC. LRC claims
what it calls an historic right or sovereignty over exBritish Southern Cameroons based
on a fanciful idea that it had replaced the old German Kamerun. Following the defeat of
Germany in WWI and the AngloFrench partition of 1916 and the renunciation by
Germany in 1919 of its rights and title to that territory, German Kamerun became extinct.
The British Cameroons and French Cameroun were two new polities that came into being
as from 1916 and the partition was ratified by the League of Nations at the Versailles
Peace Treaty of 1919. In order to reconstitute the old German Kamerun, LRC would have
to expropriate territories from five of its neigbours.
Q4. is there any doubt on the boundary between la Republique du Cameroun and
Southern Cameroons?
A:No. The international boundary between the British Southern Camreoons and French
Cameroun is along the MilnerSimon Line traced in 1916 by Britain and France, delimited
in 1919, and confirmed in 1922.
Q5. Why did Southern Cameroons accept federation with la Republique du Cameroun?
A: It accepted the federation as a fall back position after the UN had for no justifiable
reason, refused to grant it separate independence in conformity with art. 76(b) of the
Charter of the U.N. The people of the Southern Cameroons were forced by the UN and
the UK into a union with la Republique du Cameroun and the Southern Cameroons
entered the union in good faith.
Q6. Why is Southern Cameroons struggling to be free?
A: Because LRC has forcefully and fraudulently assumed total unwarranted jurisdiction
over exBritish Southern Cameroons, exercising complete dominion over it and denying it
the right to govern itself. This is colonialization; this is annexation that must be fought
against until freedom has been restored!
Q7. Does the presence of BSC quislings in la Republique du Cameroun administration
change anything?
A: Even though la Republique du Cameroun has coopted quislings and collaborators
from the Southern Cameroons into its rulership and has hired citizens of the territory into
its administration, army, gendarmerie and police, all that changes nothing. It does not
make the Southern Cameroons a part of la Republique du Cameroun; it only confirms the
fact of annexation and assimilation that are the hallmarks of Gallic colonization.
Q8. Has The Southern Cameroons itself any ethnic minorities?
A:Yes. Ethnic minorities that exist in the Southern Cameroons include the Bakweri, the
Nsaw, the Wimbum, the Bafaw, the Kom, the Bayangi, the Bali, the Bakossi, the Metta as
well as nonnative ethnic minorities.
Q9. If the Southern Cameroons is not an ethnic minority, what then is its status after 15
years as a U.N. Trust Territory?
A: On April 19, 1961 the U.N. General Assembly voted by an overwhelming majority for
the independence of the Southern Cameroons.
Q10. A total of 50 nations voted YES. These were: Afghanistan – Australia – Bielorussia
– Bolivia – Bulgaria – Burma – Canada – Ceylon – Chile – Costa Rica – Cuba – Cyprus –
Denmark – Dominican Republic – Ethiopia – Finland – Ghana – Honduras – Hungary –
Iran – Iraq – Ireland – Japan – Jordan – Lebanon – Lybia – Mali Mexico – Nepal – New
Zealand – Nigeria – Norway – Pakistan – Philippines – Poland – Saudi Arabia – Sudan –
Sweden – Thailand – Tunisia – Turkey – Ukraine – Union of South Africa – USSR – USA
– United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland – Venezuela – Yemen. Only two
nations voted NO. These were Luxembourg and Paraguay. Nine nations abstained. These
were Portugal – Spain – Togo – Argentina – Brazil – Cambodia – Greece – Haiti – Italy.
Q11. Who officiated at this session of the U.N. General Assembly?
A: Chairman: Adam Pachachi (Iraq)
Vice Chairman: Miss Silvia Shelton Vilallon (Cuba)
Rapporteur: Eamon L. Kennedy (Ireland)
Q12.Which is the Southern Cameroons Independence Day?
A: By the United Nations General Assembly decision, 15th Session, 1961 on Wednesday,
April 19, 1961 at 3:15 p.m. 1st October is Southern Cameroons Independence Day NOT
January 1st and certainly NOT May 20th. To require Southern Cameroonians to celebrate
May 20th is like requiring slaves to celebrate the day they were captured.