Fwd: SCAPO PRESS RELEASE: Garrison Duty for Lawyers, Human Rights Groups, Pressmen and women all Southern Cameroonians and al men and women of goodwill. A SOUTHERN CAMEROONS HUMAN RIGHTS CASE DUE HEARING AT THE BAMENDA HIGH COURT. SCAPO PRESS RELEASE A SOUTHERN CAMEROONS HUMAN RIGHTS CASE DUE HEARING AT THE BAMENDA HIGH COURT SCAPO/PR.01/2013 The Southern Cameroons Peoples’ Organization (SCAPO) informs the people of Southern Cameroons at home and abroad and Human Rights Organisations world-wide that a Southern Cameroons human rights case (HCB/19M/2013) filed at the Bamenda High Court of Mezam Division is due to be heard on Tuesday 26 February 2013. The case was filed following the persistent human rights violations unleashed yearly against the people of Southern Cameroons on the first day of October by agents of the Republic of Cameroon. Southern Cameroons, a former United Nations Trust Territory was granted independence by the United Nations General Assembly in 1961 by instrument of Resolution 1608 (XV to take effect from 1 October 1961 upon joining La Republic du Cameroun in a Federal Union. Although the Union never concluded, the two territories cohabited informally until 1984 when President Paul Biya pulled the State of East Cameroons out of the Union and renamed it La Republique du Cameroun. The UN sponsored Federal United Cameroon Republic is now defunct, but the action of La Republique du Cameroun in incorporating the State of West Cameroon as its 9th and 10th Provinces when she seceded from the UN sponsored Federal Union is in breach of her bilateral Agreement with the Southern Cameroons prior to the UN plebiscite and is a flagrant violation of key UN instruments setting out guidelines about the Union. Her yearly arrests, detention and torture of Southern Cameroons people on 1st October , the anniversary of their independence is clearly a war of subjugation being waged on the people of Southern Cameroons, a war which violates key Articles of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. This “war” of subjugation has gone on in Cameroon since La Republique du Cameroun annexed the Southern Cameroons and supressed its Statehood. It will be recalled that the Southern Cameroons was a self-governing State (with Ministerial government headed by a Prime Minister, a bi-cameral Legislature and an Independent Judiciary) as far back as 1954. It is unthinkable that a people will attain that level of political development and then offer themselves and their territory as a gift to become two Provinces of another country. The only reason why this “war” has so far not escalated to an armed conflict is the restraint with which Southern Cameroonians have responded to the bad faith from the leadership of La Republique du Cameroun. However, while we are engaged in exhausting peaceful options to the annexation of our country, let no one be in doubt: All options are on the table. When peace and justice are denied our people and country everywhere, other options will be studied. The bad faith from the leadership of La Republique du Cameroun manifested itself in the callous and insensitive manner in which La Republique du Cameroun annexed the State of the Southern Cameroons and supressed its statehood; It is manifested in the pusillanimous steps they have taken to obliterate the Anglo-Saxon heritage in Southern Cameroons and assimilate the people to the French inherited systems operating in La Republique du Cameroun especially in Administration, Education and the Legal system. The people of Southern Cameroons salute all their sons and daughters in the fields of education and the Legal Profession who have defied the odds to keep our system from complete obliteration. So far all has not been swept away. The Southern Cameroon Human Rights case in HBC/19M/2013 AUGUSTINE FEH NDANGAM (PETITIONER) VS. THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF CAMEROON, THE GOVERNOR OF THE NW REGION, THE GOVERNOR OF THE SW REGION ( RESPONDENTS ) is about the right of the people of Southern Cameroons to self-determination. It has been filed at the Bamenda High Court because we have faith in the Judiciary of the Common Law system inherited in the Southern Cameroons. The “war” to sweep this system under carpet has so far not attained victory point. “Though much is taken, much abides” Lord Tennyson :Ulysses. The people of Southern Cameroons will be kept updated on developments on the case. Lawyers who are interested in the case or wish to have more information should contact any of the Law-Firms below: 1. Njobara….. Tel….. 2. Law-Firm….Tel 3. Law-Firm….Tel 4. Law-Firm….Tel 5. Abalu and Bobga …. Tel……. Pressmen who wish for more information about the case should contact the National Vice- Chairman of SCAPO, Mr. Augusttine F. Ndangam, Tel 237 7749 2352 or by E-mail at southerncameroons.scapo@gmail Southern Cameroonians abroad who wish for more information should contact the National Chair of SCAPO, Dr. Kevin Ngwang Gumne Tel……… or E-mail at southerncameroons.scapo@gmail -------------------------------------- --------------------------------------- Augusttine F. Ndangam Dr. Kevin Ngwang Gumne Distribution HE President Paul Biya of the Republic of Cameroon, Yaounde The Secretary General of the United Nations The President of the United Nations Security Council The President of the United Nations Human Rights Commission The Chairman of the African Union The President of the Commission of the African Union The Chairman of the Peace and Security Council of the African Union The Chairperson of The African Commission on Human and People’s Rights, Banjul The Ambassador of the United States of America in Yaounde The Ambassador of the of the People’s Republic of China in Yaounde The Ambassador of the of the Russian Federation in Yaounde The Ambassador of the of Liberia in Yaounde The Nigerian High Commissioner in Yaounde The South African High Commissioner in Yaounde The Canadian High Commissioner in Yaounde The British High Commissioner in Yaounde The French Ambassador in Yaounde All Traditional Rulers of Southern Cameroons Leaders of Political Parties with Headquarters in Southern Cameroons All MPs of Southern Cameroons Origin in the National Assembly of LRC All Mayors of Southern Cameroons Local Governments The Press. National and international Human Rights Organizations world-wide
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