Buea Cetral Prison
South West Region,
Republic of Cameroon
31,July 2016
His Excellency Koffi Annan,
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| LETTER TO ANNAN P 1 |
Former Secretary General,
United Nations Organisation.
Your
Excellency
ILLEGAL DETENTION AND TORTURE OF SCNC ACTIVISTS, 17th JULY TIL DATE
We write to draw your attention to
the fact that Cameroon continues to arrest and torture Southern Cameroon
National Council (SCNC) members inspite international pressure and legal
counsel to the contrary.
This in no way is provoking the SCNC to adopt violent
reactions so that they can blacklist SCNC as a terrorist organisation .
For 55 years, advocates of the
Southern Cameroons independence have been killed, `maimed, imprisoned
unlawfully, raped and robbed of their basic human rights and their right to a
sovereign homeland.
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| ACTIVISTS(L-R) NKE VALY, TEBOT T. & NJOUSI ABANG |
Successive generations of SCNC activists have stood for “the force of argument not the argument of
force.”
This has yielded few fruits
because of the intransigence of the brutal and repressive successive regimes of
la republique du Cameroun.
As recently as Sunday 17th
July 2016, 16 SCNC activists were arrested by a mixed contingent of SED (state
secretariat for defence) Public Security and Special branch police, while they
waitied to be served food at a roadsisde restaurant in Molyko, Buea and whisked
off to police custody.
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| LETTER TO K.ANNAN P 2 |
After spending four days in an
airtight, dark and dirty police cell they were taken before the State Counsel
who wasted no time to remand all in Prison Custody.
When 14 of the activists
were arraigned before Court of Firist Instance Buea, the Presiding Magistrate, Beactrice
Nambangi refused to grant them bail.
They are consequently still languishing in
the overcrowded prison cells the Buea Central Prison.
Excellency, on this score, we are
appealing to you to use high offices to find a lasting solution to our plight.
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