VOA: Cameroon Civilians Protest Growing Separatist Barbarism, Increasing Violence
YAOUNDE - Hundreds of Cameroonians have braved a heavy military presence and separatists’ threats to protest increasing violence and barbarism in the central African state’s restive English-speaking regions. The protest in the southwestern town of Muyuka was provoked by the killing of civilians and other brutality by the military, which is searching for separatists said to be responsible for a recent wave of attacks and murder of women and aid workers.
About 300 people, most of them women and children marched silently on the streets of Cameroon’s southwestern town of Muyuka Sunday. Twenty-nine-year-old Ernestine Naayah said Cameroon’s Womens Peace Movement, which she represents in Muyuka, and four other organizations organized the protest because they are fed up with growing violence in Cameroon’s English-speaking Northwest and Southwest regions.
"I am out here today to say no to violence, to decry the killings of innocent civilians and especially women. Our cry today is for the leaders of the nation to do something about the crisis in the North and Southwest regions. We all deserve to live in peace in this glorious land God has given us," she said.
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Update #1: Cameroon Military Arrests 100s in Anglophone Regions After Civilians Killed (VOA)
Update #2: UN ‘strongly condemns’ rights abuses in Cameroon (Premium Times)
WNU Editor: This conflict has been ongoing for years .... Thousands Flee The Growing Violence In Cameroon's Anglophone Provinces (December 21, 2017).
