There exists no treaty of union between the former British Southern Cameroons and La République du Cameroun. No constitutional ratification. No bilateral agreement. Two countries with two separate maps.
An Editorial by The Independentist
On this day, Wednesday, July 30, 2025, we reaffirm our editorial responsibility as The Independentist—not simply to report events, but to frame them in the truth that history demands.
Southern Cameroons—Ambazonia—is not at war. It is under siege. And while the world turns away, the cost in human lives, dignity, and legality continues to rise.
More than 60,000 Ambazonian civilians have been killed. Over one million people have been displaced. Schools have been shuttered. Entire villages have been incinerated. Leaders have been abducted, tortured, and held incommunicado—all because a people said no to erasure and yes to self-determination.
This is not an isolated case of internal unrest. It is the consequence of a political deception that dates back to 1961—a deception now unraveling in full view of international law.
There exists no treaty of union between the former British Southern Cameroons and La République du Cameroun. No constitutional ratification. No bilateral agreement. No legal basis for the annexation that followed the October 1st plebiscite. What was presented as unification was, in fact, absorption—first administrative, then military, and now genocidal.
Yet Ambazonia is not a land of chaos. It is a land of precedent. A land that once governed itself through peaceful institutions. A land that made democratic history.
In 1958, British Southern Cameroons became the first territory in Sub-Saharan Africa to hold a peaceful transfer of power through democratic elections—where an incumbent lost, and power was handed over without a single act of violence.
That democratic spirit—tested, buried, and bombed—is not lost. It lives on in the hearts of a people who have never abdicated their right to be governed with consent.
At the forefront of the peaceful resistance is President Dr. Samuel Ikome Sako and the Government of the Federal Republic of Southern Cameroons, Ambazonia (Government in Exile). While others seek weapons or compromise, this leadership has chosen a disciplined, lawful, and internationally legitimate path to liberation.
That path is defined by the Montevideo Convention of 1933, which outlines four foundational criteria for statehood:
A permanent population
A defined territory
A functioning government
The capacity to enter into relations with other states
Ambazonia meets all four. It did not become a state through rebellion or secession. It was a state by law—then forcibly annexed. Its case is not one of creation, but of restoration.
And yet, Ambazonia remains without recognition. Without a seat at the United Nations. Without even the minimum protections afforded under international humanitarian law. The very institutions that claim to defend human dignity have become spectators to a slow-burning genocide, camouflaged under the pretense of internal affairs.
The United Nations now declares it is pursuing a “New Vision” for global peace—one based on preventive diplomacy, sovereignty by consent, and the centrality of people’s rights. If that vision is to mean anything, it must begin not with lofty declarations, but with justice for Ambazonia.
Where is the acknowledgment that Ambazonia never consented to this union?
Where is the international accountability for the thousands of lives lost in what the African Union and Commonwealth continue to call a “domestic conflict”?
How many more families must be born, grow, and die in refugee camps before the world admits its complicity?
We at The Independentist believe the silence must end—not out of pity, but out of principle.
Ambazonia is not a project of protest. It is a legal entity, buried under decades of diplomatic betrayal, now rising through a disciplined appeal to law, to history, and to justice.
The world must now choose: to honor the very laws it helped draft, or to let them gather dust while another nation disappears in plain sight.
Ambazonians are not asking for sympathy. We are demanding what is already ours:
By history.
By law.
By right.
Justice may be deferred. But it will not be denied.
— The Independentist Editorial Board
July 30, 2025
