Ambazonia: From Freedom To Exile

For two years counting, former Northwest and Southwest of Cameroons has engaged in a journey of no return for freedom. Thousands of people have been killed and more disappeared. Hundreds of thousands more have gone into exile, while others have moved homes and those Internally Displaced Persons now number close to a million. Cameroon government brutality and human rights violations have proven to the world that the dissenting people deserve, indeed, their free AMBAZONIA, to have a population of over 8 million English speakers.

I have been keeping track of movements and disappearances, in hopes of reporting such at a convenient time to the appropriate world authorities. Perhaps it is more of service to break the silence and alert the world about the perilous trips Ambazonians are taking to go furthest from Cameroun shores.

Hundreds of thousands of Ambazonians are ready to venture to unknown destinations to find freedom in exile. No destination seems distant for most people. Queues for Cameroun identification papers have grown, not because the Ambazonians seeking the identification papers want to identify with Cameroun. People are seeking these papers in order to travel.

Kisob Amabo, attacked in Northwest Cameroun by Cameroun soldiers, just called me from Ecuador to announce his arrival in the South American country. His hope is to get to safer shores in the Americas and worm his way to the United States, the dream of most oppressed people’s.

Kisob Amabo, a graduate from Cameroun’s university system dreams to remake himself in America. First he has to find psychiatric treatment for the trauma he went through in the hands of Cameroun soldiers.

“After death missed me by a hair, I do not need to stay back in Cameroun to prove anything. I have witnessed thousands of Young Anglophones slaughtered by Biya's soldiers. I am very lucky to be alive.” Said a terrified Kisob Amabo.

President Paul Biya has been president of Cameroon for 36 years. Amabo has known no other president but Biya. Paul Biya just contested in an election for his seventh term as president of Cameroun. In spite a bloody war pitting restorationist fighters in two of Cameroun's 10 regions, Biya refused to call off the presidential elections in Ccameroun. He had earlier postponed parliamentary and municipal elections in 2018 to 2019 citing insecurity.

Results from the polling stations show the incumbent defeated by more than 10 points by Professor Maurice Kamto who entered a coalition with Barrister Akere Muna. The winner of the poll would have to wait for another two weeks for the constitutional court to proclaim the results. The two weeks is enough time to rig the elections and completely change the outcome of the poll.

Public protests are already occurring in Yaounde. Any attempt by Biya to rig the elections would plunge Cameroon into total anarchy. Anglophones who had crossed over to Francophone Cameroun as internally displaced persons, would have to start crossing back to their destroyed villages. Most of the homes they left behind have been burnt down by Cameroon soldiers. Kisob Amabo has told his friends to prepare to also move furthest from Cameroun for freedom and safety.