Ambacide: The Genocide and Extermination

Tatah Mentan

• Publisher: Langaa RPCIG
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN:
  9789956552481
• eBook ISBN:
  9789956552016
• Edition: 1
• Subtopic: Colonialism & Post-Colonialism

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 Rpublique 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 Rpublique du Cameroun gnocidaires can only be peacefully resolved by an internationally negotiated separation of both warring Former UN Category B Trust Territories.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• List of Acronyms
• Preface
• Introduction
• Chapter One - Southern British Cameroons and Methodology of Analysis
• Chapter Two - Deconstructing the Theory of Genocide according to Raphael Lemkin
• Chapter Three - Understanding the Root Causes of the Raging Genocide in Former British Southern Cameroons*
• Chapter Four - Dissecting the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
• Chapter Five - Structural Violence: Pacesetter for Ambacide
• Chapter Six - Historico-Legal Path to Genocide and Extermination of Ambazonians
• Chapter Seven - The Slippery Identity Road to Genocide and Extermination
• Chapter Eight - President Paul Biya Blows the Whistle for His ‘Final Solution’
• Chapter Nine - From the Anger of Despair to Resistance and Self-Defence*
• Chapter Ten - Epilogue
• Back cover