By The Independentist Investigative Desk
INTRODUCTION
René Emmanuel Sadi serves as Cameroon’s Minister of Communication and official Government Spokesman. In this role, he becomes the voice of a regime responsible for widespread violence in the Anglophone regions of the country. Every major attack on civilians, every suspicious death, every political arrest, is followed by his press statements. His role is to manage perception and protect the ruling elite from accountability.
THE ROLE HE PLAYS
Human rights organizations such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have repeatedly documented unlawful killings, torture, enforced disappearances, the burning of homes, and the destruction of schools and hospitals in the North West and South West regions. While these crimes occur, Sadi stands before the cameras to deny, minimize, or redirect public outrage. His job is not to reveal the truth but to shape it to the regime’s advantage.
A PILLAR OF REGIME MESSAGING AND DENIAL.
When civilians are massacred, Sadi explains it away as a security operation. When children are killed in their classrooms, he talks of unfortunate circumstances. When political leaders die in detention, he expresses regret without demanding justice. He turns crimes into crisis management and victims into footnotes. His silence before the crime and his polished statements afterwards are not neutrality. They are complicity.
He is not merely communicating government policy. He is upholding a system of oppression through strategic denial. He is a pillar of the regime’s machinery of impunity.
DOCUMENTED ATROCITIES UNDER HIS WATCH.
A well documented example is the massacre in the village of Ngarbuh in the North West region. More than twenty civilians, including children and a pregnant woman, were killed. Houses were burned to the ground. International observers confirmed the involvement of state forces and allied militias.
In the Anglophone conflict overall, thousands of civilians have been killed. Villages have been wiped out or abandoned. Women and children have fled deep into the forests to survive. Schools have been raided, burned, and closed for years. Teachers and students have been kidnapped or murdered. Education itself has become a battlefield.
These crimes did not happen in silence. They happened while a government spokesman faced the world and demanded trust in the same institutions that permitted them.
THE CASE OF ANICET EKANE.
When opposition figure Anicet Ekane died in detention during the post-election crackdown of twenty twenty five, Sadi issued the standard regret statement. He assured the public that there would be an investigation. He did not explain why a political leader was detained in the first place, why his health needs were ignored, or why justice always arrives only after the coffin is closed.
His words are always too late. His outrage always rehearsed. His purpose always the same. Clear the state of blame. Clear the image of the regime. Clear the path for the next tragedy.
THE COST OF HIS SILENCE.
For every civilian who dies, for every activist who vanishes, for every community burned to ashes, there is another press statement written in the Ministry of Communication. In the story of Cameroon’s crisis, testimony from victims is replaced by official narratives crafted to erase accountability.
While villages are emptied, his speeches remain full. While children are buried, his briefings continue as normal. His silence when victims suffer becomes his voice when perpetrators are threatened.
HISTORY’S JUDGMENT.
René Emmanuel Sadi cannot claim innocence. His job has been to defend a system of brutality and shield those who commit crimes. He has enabled a culture where violence is rewarded and truth is suffocated. He chose his role. He chose the side of oppression. And history will remember that choice.
CONCLUSION AND ACCOUNTABILITY DEMAND.
This investigative record stands as a formal declaration that Ambazonia sees through the official statements and the manipulated narratives. Words cannot erase murders, and public relations cannot replace justice.
We demand full and independent investigations into the killings and crimes in the Anglophone regions. We demand accountability for those who issued orders, carried out violence, and protected the perpetrators through deliberate misinformation.
Justice is not optional. Silence is no longer acceptable. The era of lies is ending. Ambazonia will not forget. Ambazonia will not forgive. Those who defended tyranny with polished language will answer to the truth.
The Independentist Investigative Desk
