Subject: Re: is independent bakassi tripoint subsumed by greater ambazanian one
Date: Aug 28, 2006 @ 14:01
Author: aletheia kallos (aletheia kallos <aletheiak@...>)
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or more explicitly
http://www.unpo.org/article.php?id=5227
http://www.tribune.com.ng/11082006/politics.html

with a not fully satisfactory explanation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Cameroons

comes in musical radio free version too
http://www.fdrsoutherncameroons.info/radio.htm

--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, aletheia kallos
<aletheiak@...> wrote:
>
> fresh clue from
> http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=55766
>
> Meanwhile the Southern Cameroons Peoples
Organisation
> (SCAPO) yesterday threw its weight behind the
Bakassi
> youths who declared their independence.
> In a letter sent to the Bakassi youths and signed by
> its chairman, Dr. Kevin Ngwang Gumne, SCAPO said
“the
> independence of the Bakassi Peninsula is also the
> independence of the Republic of Ambazania.”
> “In taking this decision you will ensure that the
> future of the Bakassi Peninsula is now in your hands
> and not in the hands of international civil servants
> in The Hague or in New York.
> “Your ancestors who are buried on the peninsula now
> expect you to make all the sacrifices necessary to
> protect the sacrosanctity of their final resting
> places. If you fail to do so, then your independence
> declaration would have been mere words pronounced in
> vain the ghosts of your ancestors will haunt you
> forever.
> “Indeed the Green tree Agreement lacks the force of
> international law because it was neither adopted by
> the African Union nor the UN Security Council.
> “We also understand that because of its questionable
> legality, there is now a pending lawsuit in the
> Federal High Court in Nigeria, which has been filed
by
> plaintiffs from the Bakassi Peninsula who have
posited
> that the agreement cannot be implemented without
> recourse to the Nigerian legislature because failure
> to do so would place the agreement in violation of
the
> Nigerian constitution.
> “The agreement also violates the African Charter of
> Human and Peoples Rights because it seeks to impose
> Camerounian nationality on the unwilling indigenes
of
> the peninsula without the benefit of any process of
> political consultation; failing this, the agreement
> presents the indigenes of the peninsula with the
> devil’s alternative of effectively dispossessing
them
> of their ancestral lands if they should choose not
to
> accept the Camerounian nationality”, the letter
reads.
>
>
> so
> the tamnyar location may well be more plausible &
> probable than the archibong location for the
eventual
> breakaway tripoint position
>
> which would mean
> hereabouts
>
http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/mapcenter/map.aspx?TextLatitude=6.5487912520340625&TextLongitude=11.236124065232886&TextAltitude=9&TextSelectedEntity=49&SearchEnc=false&MapStyle=Comprehensive&MapSize=Large&MapStyleSelectedIndex=0&searchTextMap=tamnyar&MapStylesList=Comprehensive&ZoomOnMapClickCheck=on&ResultsListbox=5.68496836366895%3B12.7230057396539%3B2%3B49%3BCameroun+%5BCameroon%5D%2C+Africa%3BLarge%3BComprehensive
> as previously identified & detailed in
>
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/19229
> rather than
> hereabouts
>
http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/mapcenter/map.aspx?TextLatitude=4.95692825475354&TextLongitude=8.31378309736768&TextAltitude=8&TextSelectedEntity=5544&SearchEnc=false&MapStyle=Comprehensive&MapSize=Medium&MapStyleSelectedIndex=0&searchTextMap=archibong&MapStylesList=Comprehensive&ZoomOnMapClickCheck=on&ResultsListbox=4.95692825475354%3B8.31378309736768%3B8%3B5544%3BCalabar%2C+Nigeria%3BMedium%3BComprehensive
> as previously identified & detailed in
>
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/19764






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