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| Cameroon:over 50 Anglophone detainees appear before Yaounde military court |
| 2018-10-21 |
| [JOURNALDUCAMEROUN] Over 50 Anglophones were present at the Yaounde military court on Friday October 19 for hearing but most of the cases were adjourned because lawyers failed to show up after exertions at the Constitutional Council. Just one lawyer (Me-eh Walise Kum) turrned up for the defense Counsel as well as one (Mangoua Duclair) for the Gov’t bench. Other cases were equally postponed because most of the Anglophone detainees did not have lawyers-close to twenty of them. It was the 49th appearance for Ngalim Felix who is the longest -serving anglophone detainee since the crisis started. He was enjugged Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! in Bamenda in 2016 and transferred to Yaounde where he has been detained. The gov’t bench has since failed to produce witnesses to testify against him since the case started. He has vowed not to return to court if he is not transferred and tried in Bamenda. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Politics Bamenda is the founding place and seat of the largest opposition political party in Cameroon, the Social Democratic Front (SDF), and the home of its leader, John Fru Ndi. There is a large military presence throughout the city. On 26 May 1990, a group of Bamenda elites launched the party in Ntarikon Bamenda, despite a heavy police presence. However, the launching did not end without casualty. Six civilians were killed.[citation needed] Bamenda is also the birthplace of The Southern Cameroons National Council (SCNC), a group that has been asking for the restoration of the former British Southern Cameroons, a territory that covers the English-speaking provinces of North West and South West. The SCNC was born in Bamenda in 1994, after the All Anglophone Conference (AAC2) issued the Bamenda Declaration in which it had asked the government of President Paul Biya to respond to all anglophone grievances stated in the Buea Declaration of 1993, or face the wrath of the people of the Southern Cameroons. The Cameroon government failed to respond to the Bamenda Declaration and since then, the SCNC has categorically maintained that it now considers the restoration of the independence of the Southern Cameroons to be final and irrevocable. |
| Posted by: Woodrow 2018-10-21 11:53 |