We need a national commission for unity and reconciliation

The National Commission for unity and the reconciliation we suggest to Cameroon constitute the best way to involve the Cameroonian regions in the development and implementation of the policy of unity and Reconciliation.

Cameroonians can thus sit and discuss the real problems at the origin of their divisions and therefore consider ways and means for the reconstruction of the country, strengthen their unity and Reconciliation, essential support for sustainable development.

Since independence, the African continent has entered into a never-ending spiral of armed conflicts that have devastated millions of lives. There was certainly inter-State conflicts for control of coveted territories and border areas the Libya/Chad the Sahara and the Morocco, etc. etc.

But mostly, armed conflicts in Africa have been civil wars to secessionist character "Casamance in Senegal, Biafra in Nigeria, Katanga in Congo, Azawad in Mali...". » ; and also wars of conquest of power by rebel groups (Angola, Liberia, sierra Leone, Congo-Brazzaville, Congo-Kinshasa, Côte d'Ivoire...). The 1994 Rwandan genocide (800,000 deaths in 100 days) cannot even be classified in all these categories.

However, common denominators of all these 'intra-States' wars, is each between citizens of the same nation, compatriots, neighbors. Critical sociology defines a weapon Immaterial as, the action of manipulative techniques on a social group using Fireworks whose symbolic load permits to burst in the social imaginary of another group to take control to impose subordination reflexes. The mechanism of this technique is subtle because it plays on the relatedness of words against a given problem, drag in the main solution one word instead of another.

It is therefore by this action to affect the behaviour of a target through cognitions and emotions. Reconciliation cannot be decreed. It happens step by step. Like a wound that heals, it takes time.

However, we can - we should! Put in place extreme conditions and institutions that can facilitate this integration. It goes without saying that the governing class should be equipped with a serious political will to unify the people (the woe with us, is that often the rulers are both judges and parties). Strong Governments and strong institutions (Justice, police, army including) are needed to mitigate and dissuade the impulses of our peoples.

And if a Government really wants to reconcile his people and his army, what's easier: make the people and the army one and the same entity. Merge them! This is called compulsory military service. This natural formula has been proven from Biblical times to the present day. Of all time, the people have always been the inexhaustible reservoir from which it draws the army human resources.

It is inconceivable that it came to a situation where the people become a victim of the army. To avoid this state of fact, compulsory military service seems to be the best remedy. The nations where this service was introduced are integrated, nations or at least who have developed along the years, a strong national consciousness: Israel, USA, France... In France and the USA, conscription and the draft have been abolished, although they have already made positive impacts on these nations.

Cameroon forms a single citizen, the Cameroonian citizen, whether North, South, East or West. We are all daughters and sons of this great nation full of ambition.