Paul Biya and his admiration of the former genocidal regime in Rwanda

The numbers or population of none natives has never been a problem in the coastal parts of Anglophone Cameroon and even in Francophone Cameroon. But there have always been some inherent conflicts. And the cause has almost always been a mixture of envy and jealousy. The envy and jealousy were/are sparked because of the economic superiority of natives of the grass lands of both English and French Cameroons, who are considered as none natives in coastal regions of both Anglophone and Francophone Cameroons. But the Biya government, in a bid to preserve its political power, decided in the mid 1990s, to use the simmering conflicts in coastal regions of Cameroon, which pitted natives against none natives, as his weapon of massive division. He encouraged natives through rogue politicians and subservient traditional chiefs to attack and expel none natives from their lands and homes, because, none natives, especially those from the grass field regions were not supporting his rule. One of the infamous Anglophone native of the South province, who supported openly the ethno-regionalist xenophobia of the Biya regime, was Peter Oben Ashu, the former Governor of the South West province.

It was at the height of state sponsored ethno-regional xenophobia, whose ideologues were elites of the former Hutu regime of late General Hybiarimana, who had fled Rwanda, when the Rwandan Patriotic Front(RPF) of Paul Kagame, took power, that John Epee Mandengue, choose to launch his incandesce newspaper, called Elimbi . As for Paul Biya and some ideologues of his regime, such as Martin Belinga Eboutou and Professor Joseph Owona, they had an open admiration for the regime of late General Juvenile Hybiarimana, in spite the atrocities they had caused, in particular by sponsoring and fuelling the Rwandan genocide. It is the love and respect that Paul Biya and his regime had for what late General Hybiarimana did, that encouraged them to give refugee to all architects of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. Paul Biya also acted the way he did or is still doing, under the treacherous claims that, the Hutu regime in Rwanda were Bantus and French-speakers who were victims of the machinations of ethnic Neolithic Tutsis, who were worst, English-speakers. Paul Biya’s act to host with impunity architects of the 1994 horror of Rwanda was a characteristic Bantu solidarity, which other ethnic Bantu leaders in the sub region also shamefully demonstrated. One of the big name of the Hutu Power or the ideological think tank of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, who found refugee in Cameroon, was Colonel Theoneste Bagosora.