| UN Guterres Blamed For
Cameroon Prisoners COVID In Filing To UNSC
Members
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
May 21 – Amid the UN's failure
on the conflict in Cameroon,
now a specific plea about
political prisoners in Paul
Biya's jails has been sent to
members of the UN Security
Council, beyond Secretary
General Antonio Guterres who
after taking Biya's golden
statue and UN Budget Committee
favors colluded in the jailing
and killing.
Among the political prisons
are those sent back to Yaounde
from Nigeria while Guterres'
Deputy Amina J. Mohammed was
there. Inner City Press has
been submitted written
questions about Cameroon and
its prisons amid COVID-19 to
Guterres, Mohammed and their
spokespeople Stephane Dujarric
and Melissa Fleming, with no
answer at all. The
Security Council members must
act on this:
"Ambazonian
prisoners of conscience face
the gravest risks from
COVID-19 due to the
unprecedented levels of
overcrowding, inability to
implement social distancing,
lack of hygiene, and poor
healthcare. Not suprisingly,
many of these prisoners have
been sickened by a wild
outbreak of the pandemic at
the two main prisons in
Kondengui, Yaounde, capital of
La Republique du
Cameroun.
"Recent WHO
figures place Cameroun’s
COVID-19 ratio per million as
one of the highest in Africa
with 3,500 confirmed cases.
Nigeria, seven times more
populated, has 6,400 confirmed
cases. The now not-so-secret
plan of the regime of Mr. Paul
Biya in Cameroun is to
weaponize COVID-19 as both a
death sentence and an
execution squad for these
Ambazonians. ACT warns: should
any harm befall these
Ambazonian political
prisoners, the following are
to blame:
1. French
President Emmanuel Macron, who
instructs and Mr. Biya obeys.
This is how Macron and the
European Union secured the
release of Prof. Maurice Kamto
and his aides. The silence of
France and the EU suggests
they endorse Biya’s plan to
kill Ambazonian prisoners of
conscience.
2. The Secretary
General of the United Nations
Antonio Guteress, who has not
called for their release into
the protection of the U.N.
refugee agency although many
of them were registered as
refugees in Nigeria before
their abduction and rendition
to Cameroun.
3. The leaders of
Cameroun, Paul Biya, and of
Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, for
their role in the rendition.
In addition (in the case of
Buhari), his failure to comply
with the ruling of an Abuja
High Court calling for the
prisoners’ immediate release
and transfer back to Nigeria.
And (in the case of Biya), the
abduction in Ambazonia and
deportation to Cameroun of
thousands of Ambazonians.
These prisoners have been
systematically denied medical
attention. One of them who was
admitted in a military
hospital in Yaounde, suffered
an attack by soldiers in mufti
in the dead of night even as
he is locked in a fight for
his life agaomst COVID-19. The
prison superintendant has
prison gangs and other
officials targeting and
brutalizing Ambazonian
prisoners.
Access to these
prisons by the International
Commission of the Red Cross
(ICRC) remains restricted. ACT
calls on the U.N. Security
Council, President Macron, the
United States government, the
European Union and the African
Union to request the immediate
release of all Ambazonian
political prisoners and
vulnerable people within the
prison population in Cameroun
and Ambazonia, particularly
Barrister Shufai Blaise
Berinyuy currently
hospitalized. This will not
only be an act of goodwill,
but it will help curb the
spread of the pandemic Time
is, indeed, of
essence!
This was
sent to sgcentral at un dot
org, Ireland, Norway, Sweden,
Switzerland, Germany, Nigeria,
France, UK, China,
sebastien.nadot at
assemblee-nationale.fr - and
Inner City Press. We'll have
more on this.
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