a écrit le 24 février 2011 à 2h15 Hmmmm…Some food for thought to all for all Cameroonian “internet†revolutionaries who type tough-talk but are not in Cameroon where they could put their lives on the line instead for the grand ideals they hold.
People at home are not sheepish like some claim here.
The context in Cameroon (and other sub-Saharan African countries) and North Africa is simply different. Cameroonians were rioting in 2008 a la Tunisien while the west and some of our diaspora activists were parading those North African countries as economic and social success stories to be emulated. We were doing riots after protest and protest after riots, seven months of “ghost towns†in the 1990s when few in Egypt or Tunisia and much less Libya had the guts to face their tyrants.
Do you think the people who went through those protests and have since seen the shallowness of the opposition politicians they were supporting are ready to go on the street again to clamour for “change†at the peril of their lives…?
What has happened to the children who lost limbs or were violated in the name of democracy and Biya Must Go in 1990-1993? They and their families are living with the pain while Bello Bouba and Tchiroma who, yesterday, were urging them to march on the Unity Palace are living cosily as ministers and trumpeting praises “King†Biya. Do you expect these people to abandon their daily struggle as sauveteurs, benskineurs, buyam sellam to lay their lives for another set of pseudo-leaders?
What has happened to the families of the Bepanda 9? What have you/us outside done to the families (extended relations) of those who lost their lives or were jailed during the February 2008 riots? Were our opposition leaders waiting for Egyptians to riot before they could recognise that people died in Cameroon in the name of democracy?
Wanting to jump on a bandwagon of uprisings is a cheap expression of opportunistic politics. Our people know that now and are wary. They are waiting for you/us in the diaspora who love making noise on the internet to return home and put our own lives on the line first before they send their children to face Biya’s thugs again.
E don too much wouna too kam try!
Of course there were people on the streets today…but how many? 30, 40,100, maybe? There will be some more tomorrow and the day after but most Camers will go about their troubled lives quietly and far from the troops. That population I talk of, does not like Biya; but it has seen many people try to use it (the populace) as a stepping stone to poli
People at home are not sheepish like some claim here.
The context in Cameroon (and other sub-Saharan African countries) and North Africa is simply different. Cameroonians were rioting in 2008 a la Tunisien while the west and some of our diaspora activists were parading those North African countries as economic and social success stories to be emulated. We were doing riots after protest and protest after riots, seven months of “ghost towns†in the 1990s when few in Egypt or Tunisia and much less Libya had the guts to face their tyrants.
Do you think the people who went through those protests and have since seen the shallowness of the opposition politicians they were supporting are ready to go on the street again to clamour for “change†at the peril of their lives…?
What has happened to the children who lost limbs or were violated in the name of democracy and Biya Must Go in 1990-1993? They and their families are living with the pain while Bello Bouba and Tchiroma who, yesterday, were urging them to march on the Unity Palace are living cosily as ministers and trumpeting praises “King†Biya. Do you expect these people to abandon their daily struggle as sauveteurs, benskineurs, buyam sellam to lay their lives for another set of pseudo-leaders?
What has happened to the families of the Bepanda 9? What have you/us outside done to the families (extended relations) of those who lost their lives or were jailed during the February 2008 riots? Were our opposition leaders waiting for Egyptians to riot before they could recognise that people died in Cameroon in the name of democracy?
Wanting to jump on a bandwagon of uprisings is a cheap expression of opportunistic politics. Our people know that now and are wary. They are waiting for you/us in the diaspora who love making noise on the internet to return home and put our own lives on the line first before they send their children to face Biya’s thugs again.
E don too much wouna too kam try!
Of course there were people on the streets today…but how many? 30, 40,100, maybe? There will be some more tomorrow and the day after but most Camers will go about their troubled lives quietly and far from the troops. That population I talk of, does not like Biya; but it has seen many people try to use it (the populace) as a stepping stone to poli
