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13th April 1960 Douala Duala elections Cameroun Cameroon archives
13th April 1960 Douala Duala elections Cameroun Cameroon archives
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13th April 1960 Douala Duala elections Cameroun Cameroon archives
Elections for a new National Assembly in the Cameroon Republic - independent since the beginning of this year - were held Apr 11, while heavily armed police and security forces patrolled the streets of Douala and other towns, ready to quell all attempts to interfere with general voting.Interviewed outside a Douala polling station, Independent Deputy Menmafan Fampou, opposing Premier Ahidjo’s Cameroon Union Party, called for the return of UPC leader, Dr. Felix Moumie, who fled to Guinea when his party was banned din 1955 and organised a terrorist campaign. Moumie is still in Conakry although the ban was lifted Mar 1.An atmosphere of tension prevailed as Africans and Moslems queued separately to hand in their voting slips, bearing the names of candidates and symbols denoting their parties, designed to help the illiterate.Armoured cars and trucks with French-officered troops and militia were in evidence throughout the town. In one incident a patrol manhandled a Bamileke African who tried to break into a polling station in the Moslem quarter. The war like Bamilekes, constituting one sixth of the 3 1/4 million non-whites in Cameroon and numbering 40,000 in Douala alone, have been associated with terrorist attacks directed against Moslem Premier Ahidjo's rule by decree. As the African was hustled into a police truck, armed guards held back a crowd of knife-wielding Hausa tribesmen, Moslems who support the Government and whose homes have been raided by terrorist bands.While suspects were rounded up and taken to Douala police headquarters, security forces continued their task of controlling unruly voters. When things threatened to get out of hand in another incident at a Moslem polling station, police kept a queueing crowd in check with revolvers drawn.Although it is now almost certain that Premier Ahidjo and his party will emerge victorious, several of his Ministers are reported to have lost their seats. One of the successful Opposition candidates in Douala was Dr Bebe...
Category: History
Video Length: 186
Date Found: September 08, 2009
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