'For 60 years, we the people of Southern Cameroon have been raped economically, culturally, and politically. We are under a brutal annexation, in what is supposed to be a union of two states of equal status.'
Since 2017, the southern part of Cameroon has been locked in a battle with the central government in Yaounde over its quest to have an independent nation. The resultant humanitarian crisis has rendered, at least, half a million of the people of Southern Cameroon homeless. A year earlier, the citizens from the southern part – who are English-speakers – began to protest their alleged marginalisation by the government in the majority-French country.
Mr Sako said the southern Cameroonians voluntarily elected to join French Cameroon in 1961, but after “the failed experiment,” the latter began a forceful annexation of their territory. “For 60 years, we the people of Southern Cameroon have been raped economically, culturally, and politically. We are under a brutal annexation, in what is supposed to be a union of two states of equal status,” he said.
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