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This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
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**** Deadly violence increases in English-speaking regions of Cameroon
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The Median newspaper depicts anti-government protests while Cameroon president Paul Biya is addressing the UN General Assembly on 25-Sep (Cameroon-Concord)
Violence in the Southern Cameroons, the Anglophone (English-speaking)
region of mostly Francophone (French-speaking) country, has been
taking an increasingly violent turn in recent days, as pro-separatist
activists start to retaliate for the government violence that began in
November of last year.
In the past few days, Anglophone activists have ambushed and killed
four Francophone security personnel, in retaliation for government
violence that killed dozens people since October.
Peaceful protests began late last year when Anglophone lawyers
protested that the legal and court systems are biased toward
Francophones, with many laws passed without even being translated into
English. They joined by teachers protesting that all courses in the
schools had to be taught in French, and that any use of English was
forbidden. The Francophone police responded by severely beating
several protesters, and shooting two of them dead.
During the past year, the Francophone government has used increasingly
harsh methods to end the peaceful protests. This included shutting
down the internet in the Southern Cameroons for several months,
causing businesses to close and making it impossible for individuals
to bank or make purchases online, in the hope that shutting down the
internet would convince the separatists that Cameroon is too nice a
place to separate from.
On September 22, the violence took a dangerous turn, with small
explosions targeting local security forces. Starting on October 1,
when the Liberation Movement of Southern Cameroons issued a symbolic
declaration of independence for the state of "Ambazonia," an
increasingly violent Francophone government crackdown began. Hundreds
of people were arrested, and helicopter gunships were used to fire on
innocent civilians and kill them. At least 5,000 people have fled
across the border to neighboring Nigeria to escape the violence.
Reuters and Cameroon Concord and Guardian (Nigeria) and Today (Nigeria)
Related Articles
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**** Cameroon's 84-year-old president Paul Biya exhibits same violence as other African leaders
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I keep writing the same story over and over about leaders using
violence to stay in power forever, whether it's Pierre Nkurunziza in
Burundi, Paul Kagame in Rwanda, Yoweri Museveni in Uganda, Robert
Mugabe in Zimbabwe, Joseph Kabila in DRC, or, outside of Africa,
Bashar al-Assad in Syria. What these leaders all have in common is
that their countries had an ethnic or tribal generational crisis civil
war 30 or 40 years ago, and each leader and his cronies and thugs from
the same tribe have stayed in power all 30-40 years after the war
ended, It's now a generational Awakening or Unraveling era, and these
leaders are using slaughter, rapes, jailings and atrocities against
the other tribe to stay in power.
At the end of World War II, there was a British colony, the Anglophone
"British Cameroons," and there was a French colony, the Francophone
"French Cameroun" colony. The last generational crisis war was the
"UPC Revolt," 1956-1960, which was a bloody civil war by communists
attacking the French government in the Cameroun colony. The outcome
was independence in 1961, when the British Cameroons colony and the
French Cameroun colony were merged into a single country, and the
Anglophones became a disadvantaged and marginalized minority. Today,
the Anglophone regions are known as the "Southern Cameroons."
Paul Biya was born in 1933, and became president in 1982.
He consolidated his power by orchestrating a fake coup, giving
him an opportunity to eliminate all his rivals, and making
him, in effect, a dictator.
Biya's government has done some really stupid things in the past year,
apparently in the belief that by directing increasing violence at the
peaceful protesters, they'll stop peacefully protesting.
Unfortunately that's partially true, but not in the way Biya wants,
since some of them turn into violent protesters.
According to Carlson Anyangwe, a retired law professor from Anglophone
Southern Cameroons:
<QUOTE>"We don’t know why but when they shoot you, the body
is taken away. Whether you’re dead or not, we don’t know. I’m
sure if our people had arms, you would’ve heard of skirmishes
between our people and the military. But because they don’t have
guns or anything, they’re just protesting with their bare hands
and taking the risk of being shot at and being
killed."<END QUOTE>
Many people fear a full-scale civil war between the Anglophones and
Francophones, but that's almost impossible right now in a generational
Unraveling era, where there are still plenty of survivors of the
bloody "UPC Revolt" still alive, but as these survivors die off, the
level of violence is only going to increase. Mail and Guardian (South Africa) and Cameroon Concord
Related Articles
KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Cameroon, Southern Cameroons,
Paul Biya, UPC Revolt, Carlson Anyangwe,
Anglophones, Francophones, British Cameroons, French Cameroun,
Ambazonia, Liberation Movement of Southern Cameroons,
Pierre Nkurunziza, Burundi, Paul Kagame, Rwanda,
Yoweri Museveni, Uganda, Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe,
Joseph Kabila, DRC, Bashar al-Assad, Syria
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This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
- Deadly violence increases in English-speaking regions of Cameroon
- Cameroon's 84-year-old president Paul Biya exhibits same violence as other African leaders
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**** Deadly violence increases in English-speaking regions of Cameroon
****
The Median newspaper depicts anti-government protests while Cameroon president Paul Biya is addressing the UN General Assembly on 25-Sep (Cameroon-Concord)
Violence in the Southern Cameroons, the Anglophone (English-speaking)
region of mostly Francophone (French-speaking) country, has been
taking an increasingly violent turn in recent days, as pro-separatist
activists start to retaliate for the government violence that began in
November of last year.
In the past few days, Anglophone activists have ambushed and killed
four Francophone security personnel, in retaliation for government
violence that killed dozens people since October.
Peaceful protests began late last year when Anglophone lawyers
protested that the legal and court systems are biased toward
Francophones, with many laws passed without even being translated into
English. They joined by teachers protesting that all courses in the
schools had to be taught in French, and that any use of English was
forbidden. The Francophone police responded by severely beating
several protesters, and shooting two of them dead.
During the past year, the Francophone government has used increasingly
harsh methods to end the peaceful protests. This included shutting
down the internet in the Southern Cameroons for several months,
causing businesses to close and making it impossible for individuals
to bank or make purchases online, in the hope that shutting down the
internet would convince the separatists that Cameroon is too nice a
place to separate from.
On September 22, the violence took a dangerous turn, with small
explosions targeting local security forces. Starting on October 1,
when the Liberation Movement of Southern Cameroons issued a symbolic
declaration of independence for the state of "Ambazonia," an
increasingly violent Francophone government crackdown began. Hundreds
of people were arrested, and helicopter gunships were used to fire on
innocent civilians and kill them. At least 5,000 people have fled
across the border to neighboring Nigeria to escape the violence.
Reuters and Cameroon Concord and Guardian (Nigeria) and Today (Nigeria)
Related Articles
- Cameroon police shoot and kill English-speaking protesters on Sunday (02-Oct-2017)
- Cameroon's army to force English-speaking children to attend school (31-Aug-2017)
- Cameroon: One person killed in English-speaking vs French-speaking civil unrest (23-Nov-2016)
****
**** Cameroon's 84-year-old president Paul Biya exhibits same violence as other African leaders
****
I keep writing the same story over and over about leaders using
violence to stay in power forever, whether it's Pierre Nkurunziza in
Burundi, Paul Kagame in Rwanda, Yoweri Museveni in Uganda, Robert
Mugabe in Zimbabwe, Joseph Kabila in DRC, or, outside of Africa,
Bashar al-Assad in Syria. What these leaders all have in common is
that their countries had an ethnic or tribal generational crisis civil
war 30 or 40 years ago, and each leader and his cronies and thugs from
the same tribe have stayed in power all 30-40 years after the war
ended, It's now a generational Awakening or Unraveling era, and these
leaders are using slaughter, rapes, jailings and atrocities against
the other tribe to stay in power.
At the end of World War II, there was a British colony, the Anglophone
"British Cameroons," and there was a French colony, the Francophone
"French Cameroun" colony. The last generational crisis war was the
"UPC Revolt," 1956-1960, which was a bloody civil war by communists
attacking the French government in the Cameroun colony. The outcome
was independence in 1961, when the British Cameroons colony and the
French Cameroun colony were merged into a single country, and the
Anglophones became a disadvantaged and marginalized minority. Today,
the Anglophone regions are known as the "Southern Cameroons."
Paul Biya was born in 1933, and became president in 1982.
He consolidated his power by orchestrating a fake coup, giving
him an opportunity to eliminate all his rivals, and making
him, in effect, a dictator.
Biya's government has done some really stupid things in the past year,
apparently in the belief that by directing increasing violence at the
peaceful protesters, they'll stop peacefully protesting.
Unfortunately that's partially true, but not in the way Biya wants,
since some of them turn into violent protesters.
According to Carlson Anyangwe, a retired law professor from Anglophone
Southern Cameroons:
<QUOTE>"We don’t know why but when they shoot you, the body
is taken away. Whether you’re dead or not, we don’t know. I’m
sure if our people had arms, you would’ve heard of skirmishes
between our people and the military. But because they don’t have
guns or anything, they’re just protesting with their bare hands
and taking the risk of being shot at and being
killed."<END QUOTE>
Many people fear a full-scale civil war between the Anglophones and
Francophones, but that's almost impossible right now in a generational
Unraveling era, where there are still plenty of survivors of the
bloody "UPC Revolt" still alive, but as these survivors die off, the
level of violence is only going to increase. Mail and Guardian (South Africa) and Cameroon Concord
Related Articles
- Democratic Republic of Congo issues farcical call for elections in December 2018 (07-Nov-2017)
- Mass murderer Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe has 90th birthday (24-Feb-2014)
- Brief generational history of Cameroon (15-Feb-2017)
- Early generational history of Cameroon (23-Nov-2016)
- The violence of generational Awakening eras (19-Jul-2017)
KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Cameroon, Southern Cameroons,
Paul Biya, UPC Revolt, Carlson Anyangwe,
Anglophones, Francophones, British Cameroons, French Cameroun,
Ambazonia, Liberation Movement of Southern Cameroons,
Pierre Nkurunziza, Burundi, Paul Kagame, Rwanda,
Yoweri Museveni, Uganda, Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe,
Joseph Kabila, DRC, Bashar al-Assad, Syria
Permanent web link to this article
Receive daily World View columns by e-mail
Contribute to Generational Dynamics via PayPal
John J. Xenakis
100 Memorial Drive Apt 8-13A
Cambridge, MA 02142
Phone: 617-864-0010
E-mail: john@GenerationalDynamics.com
Web site: http://www.GenerationalDynamics.com
Forum: http://www.gdxforum.com/forum
Subscribe to World View: http://generationaldynamics.com/subscribe
