Cameroon – Anglophone Crisis: “Attacking The National Flag Is Attacking Us” – Antoine Bell

After the incidents recorded in recent days abroad, the former footballer denounces the action of people who refuse to dialogue.

The attacks on the envoys of the President of the Republic in South Africa, Belgium and the assault on the High Commission of Cameroon in Canada did not leave Joseph Antoine Bell marble. The former Cameroonian international footballer was angry last Sunday on Equinoxe television. He criticized the perpetrators of the recorded acts of violence, saying he was surprised that there were two kinds of dialogues and denounced “violent responses from people who do not want to talk at all, who do not come to speak, who come to stop talking. ” Sufficient for him to assimilate them to individuals who have no arguments.

The two times champion of Africa as a player recalls the symbolism of the tricolor banner. “I was raised to the defense of the national flag so much that even while playing football all the spectators can tell you all about the national flag. Now what do we see? We see people attacking us because we recognize ourselves in this flag. And any attack on this flag is an aggression against us. I do not see how we can tolerate people who attack us. We are brothers, we have the same flag. So we can claim precisely by wearing the flag not by humiliating the flag, tearing it, trampling it and so on. “

Cameroon – Anglophone Crisis: “Attacking The National Flag Is Attacking Us” – Antoine Bell

Joseph Antoine Bell in comparison thinks that all the “great countries” would never tolerate on their soil or even in an embassy people who would plant a foreign flag there. For him “all those who pose these acts must be condemned without blame.” He therefore asks them to claim by the legal means of claims. Returning to the demands of Anglophones, Joseph Antoine Bell said he did not believe in ethnic balance but rather in competence. “I heard someone say that anglophones are fighting because they want the freedom to be president. I believe that there is no text in Cameroon that prohibits an anglophone from being president. It just says that if a francophone is president, an anglophone would have to be in this or that position. So if an anglophone is president, a francophone would have to be at that other position. There is no text that limits the expression of Anglophones. “

Cameroon – Anglophone Crisis: “Attacking The National Flag Is Attacking Us” – Antoine Bell.