Cameroon - Enoh Meyomesse :''Amnesty condemned the events of February 2008''
Violent riots rocked Cameroon. One hundred demonstrators were killed. Nearly 2,000 others were sent to prison for protesting in the streets of cities in Cameroon. Voices raised for the release of prisoners whose average age is 20 years. Enoh Meyomesse is those.
For candidates in the presidential election of 2011,''we vote, already, for a general amnesty and unconditional condemnation of the events of February 2008 with compensation to the families of victims of those it. For the native of Ebolowa, these young men are heroes, just as they were, fifty years ago, the guerrillas who waged war against the French army until 1960, then Cameroon subsequently'' .
''We condemn this attitude is to recover the fruit of the sweat and blood of others, while imprisoning, killing, them. The independence of Cameroon has been obtained thanks to those Ahmadou Ahidjo, Biya's boss, called, disdainfully, "guerrillas," "terrorist," "rebels". While he was chasing, relentlessly, these people, he enjoyed the same time, the independence that they had snatched from the hands of whites. His resentment against them was such that whoever committed the imprudence of pronouncing the name of Um Nyobe or Moumie Felix, was hit hard''says he.
Cameroon said that''In September 1974, Sebe Njoh, an announcer of Radio Cameroon, which hosted a program entitled "Happy Birthday" was suspended antenna and wage and tortured for months in Jean Fochive jails, the fearsome head of the political police of Ahmadou Ahidjo, to be announced Sept. 13, the anniversary of the assassination of Ruben Um Nyobe''recalls Meyomesse. He added:''It is said that commonly in Cameroon, you can not appreciate the side of a necklace that sold the Hausa, and at the same time, détester. C’est logique, non ?’’
‘’Sous Paul Biya, il y a aussi déjà eu pareille chose. En 1985, il avait créé la CTV, à part, bien distinctement de Radio Cameroun. A la CTV, les salaires étaient sans comparaison aucune avec ceux de Radio Cameroun. Ils étaient pratiquement le double. Devant cette situation, des journalistes de Radio Cameroun s’étaient mis en grève, afin que leurs salaires soient alignés à ceux de la CTV. La réaction du régime avait été foudroyante : licenciement. Mais, quelques jours plus tard, Radio Cameroun et la CTV avaient été fusionnées, et les salaires avaient été harmonized. But the poor journalists at the base of this merger, have never been reinstated ...''concludes Enoh Meyomesse.
© Camer.be: Hermann Oswald G'nowa
Released 09-03-2008 0:54:15
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