Demonstration - Tuesday 9th October 2007
12:00pm to 2:00pm
UK Immigration Service
Sandford House
41 Homer Road
Solihull
West Midlands
B91 3RJ

Called by UK Cameroon Support Network (CSN)

On Tuesday the 9th of October the House of Lords will debate the second reading of the 'UK Borders Bill', which, when it becomes an 'Act', is likely to lead to more deportations of vulnerable persons seeking asylum.

CSN invites all Cameroonians and all other nationalities facing deportation, to take part in an anti-deportation, anti-immigration acts, demonstration outside the Home Office reporting centre in Solihull.

Every day refused asylum seekers from Cameroon are being put on Kenya Airway flights and taken back to Cameroon for no other reason than the Home Office does not think that Cameroon is a dangerous place, despite a wide consensus that it is unsafe.

Paul Biya/Dictator of Cameroon - 25 bloody years
The historian David Wallechinsky, in his book Tyrants, the World's 20 Worst Living Dictators, ranked Biya with three others in sub-Saharan Africa: Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea and King Mswati of Swaziland. He describes Cameroon's electoral process in these terms: "Every few years, Biya stages an election to justify his continuing reign, but these elections have no credibility.

U.S.A: Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - Cameroon 2006
The government's human rights record remained poor, and it continued to commit numerous human rights abuses. Security forces committed numerous unlawful killings; they regularly engaged in torture, beatings, and other abuses, particularly of detainees and prisoners. Impunity was a problem in the security forces. Prison conditions were harsh and life-threatening. Authorities arbitrarily arrested and detained anglophone citizens advocating secession, local human rights monitors and activists, and other citizens. The government restricted citizens' freedoms of speech, press, assembly, association, and harassed journalists. The government also impeded citizens' freedom of movement. The public perceived government corruption to be a serious problem. The government restricted worker rights and the activities of independent labor organizations, and child labor, slavery, and forced labor, including forced child labor, were reported to be problems.

Cameroon began its independence from France, with a bloody insurrection which was suppressed only with the help of French forces. There followed 20 years of repressive government under President Ahmadou Ahidjo.In 1982 Ahidjo was succeeded by Paul Biya, who has remained in power ever since.

Cameroon has one of the highest literacy rates in Africa. However, the country's progress is hampered by a level of corruption that is among the highest in the world.

Enquiries/further information:
Cameroon Support Network (CSN)
C/o NCADC
110 Hamstead Road
Birmingham
B20 2QS
Serge Ndjeumen 079 4499 0838 /  serge_2002@yahoo.co.uk
Emmanuel Kemta 077 8862 3606 /  emmakemta@hotmail.com