"Will the MDR set the course for true political change in Cameroon thereby making history or will they join Biya to bring about some cosmetic changes and continue to lord over the people?" Le Messager, March 23, 1992.
"In a context of unleashed passions, people (politicians) don't yet have to calmness of mind to assess our courage and our sense of responsibility. History will prove us right." Dakole Daissala, La Vision, 15 Juin 1992.
Dakole Daissala, the Camerounian opposition politician who famously threw in his lot with the ruling CPDM regime after the multiparty legislative elections in April 1992, died this week in Yaounde at age 79. Dakole wanted to be remembered as the hero of Cameroonian democracy, as the one who saved the country from the clutches of political extremists on both sides of the isle. 30 years after he threw in his lot with the Biya regime the verdict is in. Or is it? Here is the story of those fateful events of March-April 1992.
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