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| Africa Subsaharan |
| Cameroon: Militants Behead Cameroon Security Official |
| 2018-09-20 |
| [All Africa] AN estimated 400 civilians and 160 state security personnel have been killed in the protests in English-speaking regions of Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... over the past two years. The latest indication of worsening brutality is a video of separatists showing a security man's decapitated head. The activists in the North West region are demanding independence from Cameroon alleging marginalisation by the government of Paul Biya, which is largely French-speaking. English speakers constitute 20 percent of the 24 million-population. "The situation in the Anglophone regions of Cameroon is becoming increasingly desperate with no one spared from the violence which is spiralling out of control," said Samira Daoud, Daoud said perpetrators from both sides had attacked and killed people or destroyed their properties but continue walking free. Early this month, armed separatists kidnapped seven students and the head of the Presbyterian Comprehensive Secondary School in the town of Bafut. They were released days later. Last week, the murderous Moslems attacked positions of soldiers stationed near the town of Buea, causing an intense exchange of fire between them and the security forces. |
| Posted by:Fred |