Tag: Cameroon military and human rights violations
Mass Arrests In Buea: A Well Fashioned Military Extortion Machinery
Whether accused of a crime or not, mass arrest victims are treated the same way; under the guise of fishing out Separatist fighters. Many locals, especially those who cannot afford the bribe, or who refuse to bribe their way out, end up behind bars in police and gendarmerie stations.
Ngarbuh Massacre: After Failed Cover-up Attempts, Intimidation, Blacklisting, Silencing Witnesses, Gov’t Succumbs
Orders Arrest, Prosecution Of Perpetrators Announces Second Burial Of Victims, Compensation Of Families Will Similar Massacres Be Revisited? BUEA, Cameroon- President Biya has made public the findings of the Independent […]
Taxi Drivers’ Protest Compel Administration To Reduce Police/Military Checkpoints In Buea
(Buea-Cameroon) A drivers’ protest in Buea against numerous obnoxious control posts mounted by security and defence forces in Buea, has forced the administration in Buea to reduce the number of […]
Transforming Hospitals Into Battlefields
By Isidore Abah (Originally published in The Post Newspaper, Cameroon) (Buea-Cameroon) There are no safe havens in the Northwest and Southwest Regions since the escalation of the armed conflict in […]
Ngarbuh Massacre: Communication Minister Exonerates Government Forces, Claims Only 5 Died
Cameroon’s communication minister, Rene Emmanuel Sadi, has said only five people were killed in the Ngarbuh incident, and that members of the military are not guilty of killing civilians. Speaking […]
Why Is The World Silent Over Southern Cameroons? JJ Rawlings Asks
Why is the world silent over Anglophone Cameroon while men, women, and children are killed in the most gruesome manner – shot, hacked, sometimes burnt alive in their homes just […]
Women, Children Not Spared In Ngarbuh Gruesome Massacre
Locals Accuse Military, Vigilantes, Herdsmen of Murdering 38 MINDEF Says “Cameroon’s Defence Forces are Not Involved” Again, the Anglophone community in Cameroon has been struck by another gruesome massacre allegedly […]
HRW Indicts Cameroon Gov’t Forces, Separatists For Killings, Destruction Of Property, Torture, Kidnappings, Occupation Of Schools
(Buea-Cameroon) Human Rights Watch, HRW, has released its 2020 report on the human rights barometer on Cameroon, in which it has indicted Cameroon Government forces for killings, destruction of property, […]
Mutengene Cocoa Farm Massacre Leaves population In Shock
By Andrew Nsoseka The population of Mutengene was again thrown into consternation and mourning when, on Wednesday, September 11 morning, at about 7.05 am, a farm was invaded by soldiers […]
US Senators Introduce Amendment To Suspend Security Assistance To Cameroon
By Andrew Nsoseka Irked by human rights abuses in Cameroon, particularly those committed by Government troops in the handling of Anglophone Crisis, some US Senators have moved to introduce an […]