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Mixed feelings over CRTV/VOA journalist’s harassment by police over English Language.
Mixed feelings over CRTV/VOA journalist’s harassment by police over English Language.
The harassment of Moki Edwin Kindzeka, a CRTV journalist who also freelances for VOA by the police last Saturday in Yaounde has been greeted with mixed feelings.
Reports say Moki had his equipment seized and was also ordered to speak only in French.
In a social media post, Kindzeka said, “These guys should not molest people just because they speak the English language.”
The Cameroon Association of English-Speaking Journalists on Twitter condemned “this act in the strongest terms.” The group demanded an apology.
#Cameroon police harassed our member, Moki Edwin Kindzeka, today in Yaounde. He was ordered to speak only in French. We condemn this act in the strongest terms and demand an apology
— CAMASEJ National (@CamasejN) June 27, 2020
Timescape Magazine reports that the attack on Kindzeka came during military raids Saturday on Anglaphone Cameroonians in the capital, many of whom were arrested and ordered to speak French.
But far from the empathy and solidarity that Moki received from his journalism frata over his fate, some activists thought he was reaping just what he sowed. Recalling how the CRTV journalist handled the issue of the Anglophone struggle over CRTV’s Press Hour in a lop-sided manner in favour of government while he was anchor, the activist said “when in Rome do as the Romans do”. He said once in another territory, Moki was obliged to speak French because he had accepted to be colonized (our paraphrase).
Also read this not very kind letter from a Francophone exiled web journalist and activist, Michel Biem Tong. He thinks Moki deserves no protection from torture and humiliation because he has been singing the praises of the Cameroonian government. Following is the letter in its entirety:
From a Francophone journalist
TO MY BROTHER MOKI EDWIN KINDZEKA OF CRTV
© By Michel Biem Tong, exiled web journalist
“Dear colleague and big brother,
It was with amazement that I learned of your assault this Saturday 06/27/2020 in Yaoundé by police during a roundup operation in the city. From media sources, these men in uniform forced you to speak French (while you are English-speaking) and accused you of being an "Ambazonian" hidden behind the profession of journalist. Neither Cameroon radio and television (Crtv), the state media which employs you, nor the Cameroonian government reacted to this bullying.
This police blunder that you suffered will allow you, I hope, to learn the lesson that working for the Cameroonian government, singing the praises of the latter when you are a national of the Southern Cameroons (the two English-speaking regions of Cameroon) protects you from torture and humiliation. Besides, when you told these police officers that you are an English speaker and a journalist at CRTV, did they hear that from you? NO. This is proof that the English speaker in Cameroon, whatever his ideology, is automatically suspect in the eyes of the Biya government.
I dare believe through this aggression of which you have been the object that you will now understand why your brothers and sisters of the Southern Cameroons took up arms: it is to fight against this type of humiliation that they and their loved ones have been suffering for almost 59 years and be able to dispose of themselves on their territory as was the case before the real-false reunification of October 1, 1961. You are no doubt aware of this as are your. brothers and sisters who continue to support the terrorist power of Yaoundé.
Mr Journalist please get #DRAFTED INTO YOUR LGA”
Cameroon has had an ongoing separatist conflict that the U.N. says has cost?more than 3,200 lives?and displaced more than?half-a-million?people.
The conflict started in 2016 when protests by English-speaking teachers and lawyers against the dominance of French-speaking Cameroonians led some to take up arms.
Cameroon’s military declared war on the rebels, who have been fighting since 2017 to create an independent, English-speaking state.