Yaounde-Sana
A grouping of political parties in Cameroon called on French President Emmanuel Macron to recognize France's colonial crimes, hours before his visit to Cameroon, where he will meet his Cameroonian counterpart Paul Biya.
AFP quoted a member of the African Movement for the New Independence and Democracy, Bidimo Kouh, as saying in a statement today: "We have a historic dispute with France..It is not Macron's arrival that raises the problem.. We take the opportunity to educate Cameroonians about the problem with France by presenting all the crimes of France." on the table and settle it once and for all if we want to have a peaceful relationship.”
For his part, Valentin Dongmo, another member of the Pan-Africanist movement, called on the French president to "recognize the crimes of colonial France, as France began to do in Algeria."
It is noteworthy that after Germany's defeat in World War I in 1918, the League of Nations entrusted most of the German colony of Cameroon to the trusteeship of France, while the western part of it, bordering Nigeria, was given to Britain.
Before the independence of Cameroon in 1960, the French authorities bloodily suppressed the resistance of the "Union of the Peoples of Cameroon", a nationalist party that was founded at the end of the forties and participated in the armed struggle against colonialism and its Cameroonian allies, especially in the land of Bamilique in western Cameroon, where the French army killed tens of thousands of resistance, including the pro-independence leader Robin Ohm Niobe.
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