299:, requested that Tchoungui ask the Pope to summon Ndongmo to Rome and then invite him to remain there. Ndongmo, who insisted on his innocence, did go to Rome but then returned to face trial. He was arrested immediately after arriving, and after several months of interrogation faced a military tribunal in January 1971, which sentenced him to death for treason. Ahidjo later commuted the sentence to life imprisonment. The affair caused tension between Muslims and Christians: some churches were burned in the North. It also caused dissension among Catholics, some of whom condemned Archbishop Zoa for being too close to the government, and for possibly assisting in removal of a popular rival.
284:- UNC). The new party came into legal existence on 1 September 1966, with Ahidjo as president and Tchoungui one of two vice-presidents. Elections were held for the Federal and East Cameroon governments on 7 June 1970 and were won by the UNC candidates, as expected. On 12 June 1970 Tchoungui was reappointed Prime Minister of Eastern Cameroun. He left this post on 20 May 1972 when the United Republic of Cameroon was declared.
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Cameroon. The participants decided to "reinforce national unity" by merging their parties into one, the
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