Dear Katte,
I believe you know the answers to most of these questions you ask but you keep asking so that people can be wasting their time on it. We cannot be crying the loss of people of Nigerian ethnic origin in Bakassi and claiming it is ethnic cleansing and then turning round to threaten minorities. Our struggle has never been against people of ethnic origin across the Mungo. Some of such people are at the front of our struggle. Obama from Kenya is as American as the Kennedys from Ireland. If you think we will one day chase Guarantee's children or Jean Tatsa's children from Southern Cameroons then you do not know us. They are now as Southern Cameroonian after being born or domiciled in Southern Cameroons all their lives as any other Southern Cameroonian.
You know the answers to your questions or at least you know them after reading what I wrote below some time ago.
This what I wrote:
11th Province issue
Let me make this clear once and for all. Southern Cameroons has no problem with 11th province settlers. Once we are liberated, they can stay as aliens permitted to live in peace and contribute to the new nation, they can take citizenship if they qualify and are willing, or they can migrate back to La Republique du Cameroun if they want. They will NEVER be forced out. We LOST PERHAPS PERMANENTLY OVER 250,000 PEOPLE WHO WERE FORCED TO MOVE FROM BAKASSI TO NIGERIA WITHOUT BEING GIVEN THE OPTION TO TAKE THE CITIZENSHIP OF SOUTHERN CAMEROONS OR THAT OF CAMEROuN AS THE OCCUPYING POWER. We will never repeat such a mistake committed by La Republique du Cameroun. It is ethnic cleansing pure and simple.
No person of 11th province origin in La Republique du Cameroun has ever in or out of Parliament brought up the Southern Cameroon problem and the bondage under which we are suffering but we do not hold it against them. Patriotism mandates them to stand behind their country just as we are standing behind ours. Before the short gun concubinage we are in, we were good neighbours, during the concubinage, we are still good neighbours and after our liberation, we will still be good neighbours with the neighbouring people of La Republique du Cameroun. History put us side by side and we will stay that way in peace if we can.
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From: vickatte@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2012 16:17:29 +0000
Subject: [cameroon_politics] The State of Southern Cameroon and its Minorities
Do descendants of these migrant have anything to fear from an independent Southern Cameroon? Are they going to be marginalised, stigmatised, excluded from jobs and services, etc, etc because their tribal origins lies across the borders in Eastern Cameroon? Or are they going to have full claim to citizenship with no fear of losing their lives or properties?
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I believe you know the answers to most of these questions you ask but you keep asking so that people can be wasting their time on it. We cannot be crying the loss of people of Nigerian ethnic origin in Bakassi and claiming it is ethnic cleansing and then turning round to threaten minorities. Our struggle has never been against people of ethnic origin across the Mungo. Some of such people are at the front of our struggle. Obama from Kenya is as American as the Kennedys from Ireland. If you think we will one day chase Guarantee's children or Jean Tatsa's children from Southern Cameroons then you do not know us. They are now as Southern Cameroonian after being born or domiciled in Southern Cameroons all their lives as any other Southern Cameroonian.
You know the answers to your questions or at least you know them after reading what I wrote below some time ago.
This what I wrote:
11th Province issue
Let me make this clear once and for all. Southern Cameroons has no problem with 11th province settlers. Once we are liberated, they can stay as aliens permitted to live in peace and contribute to the new nation, they can take citizenship if they qualify and are willing, or they can migrate back to La Republique du Cameroun if they want. They will NEVER be forced out. We LOST PERHAPS PERMANENTLY OVER 250,000 PEOPLE WHO WERE FORCED TO MOVE FROM BAKASSI TO NIGERIA WITHOUT BEING GIVEN THE OPTION TO TAKE THE CITIZENSHIP OF SOUTHERN CAMEROONS OR THAT OF CAMEROuN AS THE OCCUPYING POWER. We will never repeat such a mistake committed by La Republique du Cameroun. It is ethnic cleansing pure and simple.
No person of 11th province origin in La Republique du Cameroun has ever in or out of Parliament brought up the Southern Cameroon problem and the bondage under which we are suffering but we do not hold it against them. Patriotism mandates them to stand behind their country just as we are standing behind ours. Before the short gun concubinage we are in, we were good neighbours, during the concubinage, we are still good neighbours and after our liberation, we will still be good neighbours with the neighbouring people of La Republique du Cameroun. History put us side by side and we will stay that way in peace if we can.
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From: vickatte@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2012 16:17:29 +0000
Subject: [cameroon_politics] The State of Southern Cameroon and its Minorities
Hello,
As Southern Cameroon clamours for independence from the LRC, spare a thought for the minorities who have made SC their homes for decades. These minorities includes many groups, including
1) Those who migrated from Eastern Cameroon in the early 1900s to work for German firms in West Cameroon. This includes people from tribes like the Bamilekes (from the Western regions), the Bassas and Doualas (from Litoral), the Mbos (Nkongsamba, Melong), Yaounde (South), Bororos and Hausa (from the North), etc, etc.
2) Those from Nigeria, notably the Igbos, etc.
Do descendants of these migrant have anything to fear from an independent Southern Cameroon? Are they going to be marginalised, stigmatised, excluded from jobs and services, etc, etc because their tribal origins lies across the borders in Eastern Cameroon? Or are they going to have full claim to citizenship with no fear of losing their lives or properties?
Vic Katte"Easy is the road that leads to benightedness, superstitions and irrationalism". Victor Katte=============================================================="The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so rout it, cripple it, and make it forever infamous and ridiculous. Is it, perchance, cherished by persons who should know better? Then their folly should be brought out into the light of day, and exhibited there in all its hideousness until they flee from it, hiding their heads in shame.True enough, even a superstitious man has certain inalienable rights. He has a right to harbor and indulge his imbecilities as long as he pleases, provided only he does not try to inflict them upon other men by force. He has a right to argue for them as eloquently as he can, in season and out of season. He has a right to teach them to his children. But certainly he has no right to be protected against the free criticism of those who do not hold them. He has no right to demand that they be treated as sacred. He has no right to preach them without challenge." MenckenEmancipate yourself from mental slavery - none but yourself can free your mind."Most people would rather die than think. And most people do" Bertrand Russell.
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