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Justice Nchu Julius Cheo in his ruling, on the case against ten leaders of the SCNC arbitrarily arrested at a Press Conference on January 20, 2007 and detained for some two months at the Bamenda Central Prison, declared them discharged and acquitted for lack of evidence.In his historic ruling, he:
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Contrary to speculations that SCNC- UK was not up to the task of forging a new direction to the liberation struggle aimed at guaranteeing the total independence of the people of the former British administered territory Southern Cameroons, the UK branch has bounced back more forcefully with some structural and political changes aimed at galvanizing other dormant members and sister organizations here in the UK to vigorously campaign to get the military junta and its administrators off the Southern Cameroons territory .This follows numerous consultations between the leadership of the SCNC, MORE
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The Southern Cameroons was well represented and successfully participated at this years Alliance for Liberal Democrat in Europe, (ALDE), Nonviolent Radical Party, Transnational and Transparty (NRP) , conference with a plea on the European Union to “call on the UN to take necessary dispositions and accomplish its mission of decolonisation in British Southern Cameroons in conformity with Art. 76(b) of UN Charter and UNGA Resolution 1514 of 1960” .The Nonviolent Radical Party, Transnational and Transparty is an Ngo in General consultative status with ECOSOC of the UN. MORE
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SCNC Deleation at the EC.R to L Khumba Ettiene, Nfor Ngala Nfor, Ashu Joan & MorfawRene
SCNC Detainees of 20th January 2007 were today 06/12/07 discharged and acquitted for want of diligent prosecution. Nfor Ngala Nfor ,UNPO Member Representive and other leaders of the SCNC were on January 20 2007 arrested at a Press Conference organized at the SCNC Secretariat at Cow Street, Bamenda. After long detention for close to three months the activists who were severely tortured upon arrest were granted bail and the case suffered several adjournments as the prosecution witness failed to be present to give evidence. MORE
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Hague, 20 November 2007 – The hearings of the detainees arrested at a Southern Cameroons National Council (SCNC) press conference in January 2007 have been adjourned yet again. The hearings, scheduled for 15 November 2007, have now been moved to 06 December 2007. UNPO is appalled at this latest development and is concerned about the ability for the defendants to receive a fair trial.
This delay, the latest in a long series of delays, was caused by the failure of the prosecution witnesses and the judge to appear in his own courtroom. The absence of prosecution witnesses, especially, has been a characteristic feature of this trial and the reason of many previous adjournments.MORE
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It all started on Monday 29th October, 2007 when the AES SONEL transformer supplying electricity to the campuses and student residential area of CCAS Kumba, GTHS Kumba, GTC Kumba, stopped functioning, and caused a general blackout in these largely students’ area. The population patiently waited for AES SONEL to restore electricity in the area but to no avail. It was only on Wednesday the 7th of November 2007, that the students of the above institutions, very frustrated came out and blocked the Kumba – Buea road in protest to the protracted darkness they have suffered, especially during the critical period of end of the term examinations. MORE
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By Theodore Ndofeng
A major worry of opponents to union with La République du Cameroun prior to the 1961 plebiscite was the fear-inspiring brutality of the former French territory’s security forces that most inhabitants of the British Southern Cameroons had heard so much about.
  
One of the first acts of the president of the Cameroun Republic, who also became the first president of the Federal Republic of Cameroon, Ahmadou Ahidjo, was to rush in heavily-armed troops to the former Southern Cameroons where the people were accustomed to polite police officers who did not carry guns. MORE
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Magistrate Congratulates Southern Cameroons' Nationalists and Rescues SDO from Verbal Onslaught. The presiding Judge at the Bamenda High Court, Justice Julius Nchuo has commended the Southern Cameroonian nationalists standing trial in his court since January 2007 for always being prompt in court in spite of the fact that many of them come from distant towns such as Ndu, Kumbo, Mutengene and Kumba. Justice Julius Nchuo made this remark on Tuesday October 23, 2007 while presiding at the long drawn-out case between the state of Cameroon and Southern Cameroonian nationalists arrested last January 20, 2007. MORE
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Over 300 well-armed Nigerian police men today at 6.30pm invaded the UN compound in Abuja Nigeria to arrest some 60 Southern Cameroonians who had been demonstrating in the compound.
Most of the members of the group were half-naked. The group insisted that they would become completely naked if the UN did not hearken to their plight.MORE
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Atemnkeng Denis.
The Southern Cameroons question is a problem of international law; it is not the domestic problem of one of the parties to the conflict; it is not about the break up of a state; it is not about a group of people within their own state claiming that they have a right to self-determination. It is an issue of restitution; it is an issue of ending years of rape and armed robbery by one people against another; it is an issue of enforcing the respect of territorial boundaries inherited at independence; it is an issue of the illegal acquisition of territory with the attendant colonization of the true owners of the territory. In short, it is a question of forcing the aggressor and expansionist nation to retreat to its rightful international borders. Throughout human history, the answer to colonization and the illegal acquisition of territory has never been decentralization, good governance, power-sharing and so on; the answer to colonization and the subjugation of one people by another is always and ever decolonization. MORE
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The Southern Cameroons National Council, SCNC, has appealed to the Secretary General at the United Nations UN, Ban Ki Moon, to urgently adopt a resolution to put in place a process for the complete decolonisation of the UN trust territory, the Southern Cameroons. MORE
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October 1, the day Southern Cameroons gained Independence in 1961.
Once again, as it has been the case since the birth of Southern Cameroon's National Council, SCNC, security operatives and the dogs of war of the Francophone- led regime in Yaounde are warming up to brutalise unarmed, harmless Southern Cameroonians who dare to commemorate the event. MORE
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It is no secret that the 1 October is drawing near which is the day Southern Cameroonians remember of having gained her international identity though put in chains at the same moment by the UNO, UK, France, AU, La Republigue du Cameroun and traitors from the Southern Cameroons. MORE
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To deter Southern Cameroonians from celebrating the 46th indpendence anniverssary of Southern Cameroons, a contigent of Gendarmes today ,arbitarily arrested at gunpoint the officials of the Bamendakwe Local Government Area of the SCNC. This arrest took place at just inaugurated SCNC office which was ransacked by the occupation forces at 10.15am local time. MORE...
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- UNPO Press Release –
The Prosecution is still unable to provide evidence or witnesses as post-bail proceedings are adjourned for the third successive time. The Hague, 03 September 2007 – The hearings of the detainees arrested at a Southern Cameroons National Council (SCNC) press conference in January 2007 have been adjourned yet again. On 28 August 2007 the proceedings in the case against the UNPO Member Representative and Vice-Chairman of the SCNC, Dr. Nfor Ngala Nfor, and a number of other SCNC members were adjourned until 23 October 2007. The hearings in the case against the Chairman of the SCNC, Chief Ayamba, along with several other representatives were adjourned till 10 December 2007. UNPO is appalled at this latest delay and is concerned about the ability for the defendants to receive a fair trial. <<More>>
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Dr Nfor Ngala Nfor breaks the silence. Speaks on a lot of issues concerning the Southern Cameroons question. In an exclusive interview on the launching of the SCNC website, Dr Nfor spoke to Morfaw Rene and Charles Forcha. <<More>>
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