Haven lived the reality of the ongoing war in the North West and South West regions in Cameroon, guru.news.blog (STANDARD MIRROR) compile to you some reasons why the war in this west angle of the Cameroonian nation seemingly isn’t ending anytime soon. This is because, both those who chant “STRUGGLE CONTINUES” or “WE NEED PEACE” (From one corner of the mouth) are yet to be honest and sincere with their consciences, as the innocent population continue to perish. As satirical as the points below may seem, it’s a true reflection of the carefree attitude the stakeholders employ towards the crisis. Why might the war not stop anytime soon?:
- If you do not have a child of school going age, your children are all grown, or you do not have a child at all, it’s easy to side with the Amba boys to kidnap students and teachers. So struggle continues.
- If your wife, daughter, sister or even your mother has not been dragged out of the house by force to the Amba camps and raped, or even brutally beaten in public for just exchanging words with the girlfriend of an Amba commander, it’s just okay to run your mouth to say “Struggle continues”
- The struggle is moving on well if your husband or brother has not been pulled out of the house by an “experience Military” and gunned down for simply being a well bodied structured man posing a threat to “National Unity”.
- If the father of your kids has not been radicalized, his shop looted by military sending him financially bankrupt, and making it hard to feed the family, it will be easy to shout from roof top “Drop your arms”. What caused him to take the arms?
- If you have never watched your 14 years old son, Child soldier, whom you had hoped on to be your future Doctor or pilot and a breadwinner of your family, flying around town on a motor cycle in the feel of an Amba boy, operating an auto rifle and ak47, stinking of charms and fetish concoctions (odeshi), it so normal to clap for the struggle.
- That daughter you so long to be the next Michelle Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Kah Wallah or the amazing well cultured African lady like her Granny was is not yet a school dropout, a rape victim, a teenage pregnant girl, a disease carrier or just some useless nuisance in the neighborhood. Oh for sure, the struggle is waxing strong.
- Think of it for a moment, the home you enjoy the most nostalgic moments of your childhood life in the countryside, or the entire village you left behind with peasant farmer parents and tribesmen to come back sometime and make them proud, has not yet been raided by strange men in uniform and weaponry, why then do you wish the war ends?
- If you are not living a story you read in your English textbook at primary 5, where Samuel’s old grandparents and the little kids in the village had to escape the barrels of the Whiteman’s gun to another strange land as refugees because their houses had been burnt down by the army of “The Dictator Leader”, how dare you think it’s time to end the war?
- If your father, a business tycoon in the city of Buea or Bamenda can’t carter for any of your family bills because the Amba boys say his products are contraband given that they are “Colonial French” oriented, you won’t see reasons to stop the war.
- If your brother doesn’t hang around the quarter
to play draft, smoke weed, drink palm wine because Ghost Towns by diaspora leaders
have folded off his little business or his manageable commercial bike has been
burnt by military, you have all rights to endorse a one month lockdown.
- But wait, you have a stable salary with a surviving company, a matriculated civil servant who has a bank account on standby, whether you work or not, your salary is paid. How do you care about an old woman who depends on vegetable sales for survival? I guess even with 50 days shutdown by an “UNKNOWN AMBA GENERAL” your fridge can take you through. Aluta Continua
- If your loved ones are not amongst those our
most illustrious and industrious youngmen, the future of tomorrow who now feed on
weed, and are shot like cockroaches or who publicly flog their old parents in
public for not supporting the struggle, why should you worry about an end to
the struggle?
- You have no one in the military, those whose children are sent by government to fight these separatists is non of your business. To you, the lives of these young people “defending the territory from terrorists” is measured to nothing, there are not Cameroonians as well. I guess the war must progress while we sip imported wine and chuckle on “DROP YOUR ARMS”
- Ah, you are in the Diaspora, and the only link
to home or Ground Zero is your most sophisticated gadgets. You can call home,
support your family, educate your kids in the best schools over there, they
speak in all respect of phonetics, eat pizza not wild guava like their peers
here. You can make miserable donations
to fund the war. What is your business if all the fighters meet Lucifer in hell
within a second? Should the war not precedent?
- Oh, you are a big man in government (minister,
general, colonel, mayor, director, etc) or a bigwig regime baron who has
exclusive rights to provoke hate speech. You are being dozed thousands
of millions of Fcfa from Yaounde to combat the “terrorists”, with less than 10%
of the money used, how thy stupid saying this thing should end? Anything that
helps exercebate the situation is welcomed.
- If you are in other regions of Cameroon and witnessing
a boom in business, life is good as
usual, without a thought of ever putting to birth on” Elephant Grass instead of
Chantal Biya foundation state of the art maternity beds”. Your regions has no
sound of war helicopters and Hollywood blockbuster-like scenes, its common to
call others whatever we care. They should be crushed if they don’t drop arms.
- We of the international community do not border, it’s million miles away from us. We of the U.N.O see the war crimes and crimes committed against humanity but it’s just ok. Of course we need to go to Africa as “West African Director of Refugees” so let them fight. Even after the war, we will give an excuse that we failed to stop that we could. After all, we got Billions wired into our accounts from their Government.
- Dear reader, for those of us who are living the reality of a 21st century war in Southern Cameroon, West Cameroon, Ambazonia, North West and South West or whatever appellation you choose depending on our stance, we might have many of these reasons to remain in the war. Before you ask for weapons to be dropped or for the struggle to continue, stop at the above points and more, to search your conscience. Reality of it is, people will die, but not all. Others must live to tell the story. Above all, kill to satisfaction, like Hitler did, but live must continue
“THOSE WHO LIVE BY THE SWORD WILL DIE BY IT”
MBAKU JUDE
Standard Mirror
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