DECISION OF THE AFRICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN AND PEOPLES' RIGHTS ON ADMISSIBILITY Communication 650/17: Divine Chi and 74 Others (represented by Profeasor Carlson Anyangwe) v. Cameroon " , SUMMARY OF THE COMPLAINT on 1. The Secretariat of the African Commission Human and Peoples' Rights (the Secretariat) received a Complaint on 20 February 2017 from KUM Bezeng and 75 Others (the Complainants), represented by Professor Carlson Anyangwe. The Complaint was lodged on behalf of themselves and of the People of the'former"UNTrust Territory of the Southern Cameroons under the United Kingdom Administration. 2. The Complaint is submitted against the Republic of Cameroon (the Respondent State), a State Party to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (the African Charter)". -'j;-.":; 3. The Complainants in their complaint state that the territory referred to in this present communication as "the Southern Cameroons", is the southern part of the British Mandated/Trusteeship Territory of British Cameroons in West Africa. They traced its historical background and evolvement from 1916to the end of World War I and under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, 1919,to when the Southern Cameroons was administered by the British, under the League of Nations and the United Nations (UN) as a Mandate and Trust Territory respectively;:t((l;~?l, when, the Complainants allege, Southern Cameroons' sovereignty was 'transf~rred ill 'a_'> pseudo-independent move to the already independent former French Cameroon (la Republique du Cameroun) by the British. 4, The Complainants also traced the evolvement of Southern Cameroons from 1961,when the territory joined the already independent la Republique du Cameroun, to form the Federal Republic of Cameroon, to 1972,when the Federal Republic of Cameroon changed into the United Republic of Cameroon, and to 1984,when once again, the name changed back to the Republic of Cameroun (la Republique du Cameroun) 5. 1 Cameroon ratified the Charter on June 2, 1989 1