Genocide and extermination are no longer mere words, promises, hopes, etc. These acts are already a law which can be enforced. In practical terms, this law means no more extermination, no more mass killings, no more concentration camps, no more sterilisations, no more wanton rapes, no more killings and burning of people to conceal evidence, no more torching of habitats, no more breaking up of families. The call to stop genocide is often presented as the paramount moral obligation in contemporary global politics. The 'Never Again' refrain and the consistent references to the ethical value of Responsibility to Protect genocide stand as calls for urgent political mobilisation.
Taking a look at the internet blackouts, the militarisation of towns and cities all across Southern Cameroons (Ambazonia), the indiscriminate torching of hundreds of villages, schools and health centres, the rampant gang rape of females by HIV-infected troops, mass killings of civilians, burning of innocent civilians in their sleep, disembowelling pregnant women and slaughtering them and their unborn babies, arbitrary arrests and detentions, dehumanising raids of residential areas in search of "Anglophones", mindless torture, extortions, and looting by La République du Cameroun troops, the genocide and extermination were well planned in advance.
Professor Tatah Mentan argues that the bloodbath was designed with a clear kinetic theological foundation as its centrepiece. The theologians of the genocide were ironically not clerics. They were rather journalists and sycophantic pro-regime intellectuals who apparently served as the echo chamber of the Biya genocidal regime for his Hitler-like "Final Solution" to crush and assimilate "Anglophones" - the "rats", "cockroaches", "secessionists", "separatists", or "microbes" as they were stigmatised. The suffering inflicted by Hitler on Jews fell outside the realm of expression. Often depicted as the savage lunatic who plunged the world into World War II, Adolf Hitler's name has been on the tongues of historians, psychologists, economists, and laymen for ages. Similarly, President Paul Biya like Hitler the Monster is being depicted as the epitome of Lucifer himself.
Finally, Professor Tatah Mentan concludes that the pandemic genocide and extermination of Ambazonians by La République du Cameroun génocidaires can only be peacefully resolved by an internationally negotiated separation of both warring Former UN Category B Trust Territories.
Author(s): Tatah Mentan
Publisher: Langaa Research & Publishing CIG
Year: 2021
Language: English
City: Mankon, Bamenda
Cover
Title page
Copyright page
Dedication
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Acronyms
Preface
Introduction
Chapter One - Southern British Cameroons and Methodology of Analysis
A Chronology
The Bakassi ICJ Ruling
Why study Raging Genocide in Southern British Cameroons or Ambazonia?
Methodology of Analysis-Historical Political Economy
Why Historical Political Economy?
Conception of Economy
Ontology
Epistemology
Methodology
Ideology & Political Goals
References
Chapter Two - Deconstructing the Theory of Genocide according to Raphael Lemkin
Overview
Introduction
The Theory of Genocide by Raphael Lemkin
Explanatory Faultlines in the Lemkin Genocide Convention Model
War and Genocide: A Sociological Approach
Genocide and the Imperial State
Loss of connection between War and Genocide
Connections of context and causality
Connections of meaning
Changing structures of warfare and contemporary genocide
Lemkin and “New Justice” for Victims of Genocide
Decolonizing Genocide
References
Chapter Three - Understanding the Root Causes of the Raging Genocide in Former British Southern Cameroons*
Overview
“Anglophone Crisis” as Misguided Theorizing and Application
“Anglophone Crisis?”
Explaining the Underlying Concept of Genocide
Cameroon: Back to the Future
“Independence” of Ambazonia as Military Occupation, Annexation and Re-colonization
“One Kamerun” Myth as Instrument of Annexation and Recolonization of Ambazonia by La République du Cameroun
Violation of Law of Armed Conflict (LOAC) by La République du Cameroun in Ambazonia
Summary
Conclusion
Way Forward
References
Chapter Four - Dissecting the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
Overview
Introduction
The Genocide Convention
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
Revisiting the Origin of the Term Genocide
History of the Crime of Genocide
Historical Flashback on Genocide
Genocide as a Historico-Sociological Concept
What is the Crime of Genocide in the Convention?
Jurisdiction over the Crime of Genocide in the Convention
Limitations of the Convention
References
Chapter Five - Structural Violence: Pacesetter for Ambacide
Overview
Introduction
Background
Significance of Structural Violence
Theorizing Structural Violence
Causes of and Conditions for Genocide and Extermination
Causes of and Conditions for developing Ambacide
Genocides Are Preventable
References
Chapter Six - Historico-Legal Path to Genocide and Extermination of Ambazonians
Introduction
The Doctrine of Pacta Sunt Servanda
Decolonization Difficulties and the Violations of International Law
The United Nations Resolution 1608 of April 21, 1961
Difficulties in Implementing Resolution 1608
The Law of Treaties
The Ahidjo Regime’s Military Assault on Southern Cameroons
Jacobinist Gaullist Rule of Ahidjo-Biya
Southern Cameroons Anglophone Grievances
Broken Promises
Decentralisation as the Start of a Sustainable Solution
Econocide in Southern Cameroons
Neocolonialism Then: From Occupation, Annexation, Colonization, Assimilation to Econocide
Biya as a Totalitarian Sociopath in Cameroun
References
Chapter Seven - The Slippery Identity Road to Genocide and Extermination
Overview
Colonial Roots of Anglophone-Francophone Identity Conflict
Identity as a Knife-Colonial Past and Present Identity Frictions
Lost territories
Marginalization
Language and identity politics
Count Down to Genocide and Extermination (Ambacide)
Indifference by International Community
Uncertainties in Intervention in Cameroun
Cameroun’s Strategies and Tactics of Genocide and Extermination of Ambazonians
Collective Colonial Imperialism
Mediated Mind Control
Posters– Using Symbolic Imagery
Election Reality
Anglophobia – Scapegoating of Ambazonians
Controlling mass media for brainwashing
Mythologizing the CPDM party
Minimizing Dust Clouds: Understanding the Purpose of La République du Cameroun Scorched-earth Warfare
The Hard Reality in Cameroun
Demonizing the Political Opposition of Ambazonians
Dehumanizing Ambazonians
Prejudice
“The Anglophone Identity Crisis”
Persecution
Cordon, Search, Loot, and Kill
References
Chapter Eight - President Paul Biya Blows the Whistle for His ‘Final Solution’
Overview
Introduction
Failed Peaceful Attempts to Resolve Colonization of Ambazonia
Political and Geographical Annihilation
Quest for Restoration of Statehood Trashed
Biya’s Final Solution Visited on Ambazonia
Raiding of Homes and Streets
Minimizing Dust Clouds of Siege Warfare
Psychological Warfare
Three Shades of Propaganda
Rape as War Weapon against Ambazonian Women
Motivation: Why Are Ambazonian Women Targeted?
Aftermath of Rape
Democide
Ecocide as War Weapon
Beheading as War Weapon
Hundreds of Villages Burnt
Torture as War Weapon
Psychological Warfare as a Weapon of State Terror
Menticide
The Role of Traditional Authority
The Enigma of Coexistence
French Colonial Policy imposed on Southern Cameroonians
Politicide
Political Conditioning
State Policy
French Defence and Security for Africa
Economic Relations of Colonial Imperialism
A history of Violence and Repression as a Power Factor
The ‘diabolical mechanism’ of CFA franc as pillar of French Dispossession
Barrier to development
An unsustainable status quo
Automatic confiscation of national reserves
Cultural “Cooperation”
French as culturcide in Cameroun
Mental Coercion and Enemy Occupation in Ambazonia
Françafrique
Cameroun Independence as Colonization
Broken Silence
References
Chapter Nine - From the Anger of Despair to Resistance and Self-Defence*
Introduction
Understanding Anger and Resistance: A Theoretical Perspective
Defining Anger
Violent Resistance as a Duty?
Background to Cameroon Colonial History
The Trouble with Cameroon
Aborted Demands for Political Decentralization, Equity and Fairness in Governance
The Responsibility to Protect and the International Media Silence
Anger, Resistance, and Self-Defense
Self-defence, States’ Silence, and the Security Council: Examining Acquiescence Concerns and UN Article 51 Reports
Self-Defense and Defense of Vulnerable Ambazonian Others
Self-Defense and the UN Charter
References
Chapter Ten - Epilogue
Theoretical Reprise
Summary
Conclusion
Decolonizing Genocide and Extermination (Ambacide)
References
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