On September 9, the ADF carried out its first military action, attacking a military base in Besongabang, Manyu. “People have been displaced, have lost their families, are living in the bush and are in need of humanitarian assistance. She volunteers her cleaning services in the hope that she can beg for some rice for her children.“They killed my elder brother first. We’ve survived thanks to the support of our readers, we will need you to help us get through this.Specifically, they argue that the UN resolution that organised the post-colonial plebiscite in Cameroon in 1961 gave what was then British Southern Cameroons independence. Hospital staff hid her in a closet.Violence began in 2017 in both the North-West and South-West regions in the aftermath of peaceful protests by Anglophone teachers and lawyers who took to the streets to demonstrate against alleged discrimination and unfair working practices enforced by the Francophone central government.Local non-governmental and international organisations are trying to provide aid to the most vulnerable members of the Anglophone population, however the level of fear is reflected amongst the humanitarian workers too. The military maintained they had not detained her family members, and she would find them in the bush. Leigh, 66, said she is afraid of both sides.Indian women demand break from chores, insist men finish housework under lockdownThe story Gabriella, 32, tells is an example of how the killings in her family cross both sides of the conflict. Two weeks later, her 15-year-old son, the eldest of seven, was gunned down in the barber shop in the village, a victim of being young, Anglophone, and male.Human rights abuses are being perpetrated by both sides, confirms Ilaria Allegrozzi, senior researcher on Central Africa for Human Rights Watch. When she returned to the bush, her pregnant sister-in-law and four young children were nowhere to be found. Cameroon is beset with two violent conflicts. Those who have migrated to towns also venture back to their homes, but only during the daytime, in order to gather more food to eat and sell.Gabriella says she, her six children and the whole village fled into the bush. She puts her hands in her lap, her chewed nails betraying her anguish as she tells her story with little emotion.Meanwhile, those villagers whose houses are still standing maintain they are too scared to sleep in their own homes and prefer to sleep in the bush. A number of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) were afraid to go on the record regarding the difficulties they have in maneuvering through the terrain, and in dealing with the government.Residents in the South-West region say the Cameroonian security forces will torch a home if they see a young man fleeing in the vicinity. When the army starts shooting they don’t ask who is who, they just shoot,” she says with a sigh, after rapidly recounting her story.After neighbours came out of the bush to smuggle her to the hospital, the military searched the local health facilities, looking for her. Even after the breakout of violent conflict in 2018, the government denies proven human rights atrocities, and says the crisis is solely the result of “Ambazonian terrorism”. RFI is not responsible for the content of external websites.
Hence they strongly believe that history and international law are on their side in their bid for an independent state called Ambazonia.All material © Mail & Guardian Online. They caught five people and started beating them with cutlasses, he says. Additionally, it refuses to accept that the current crisis has its more recent origins in the beatings, intimidation, arrests and killing of Anglophone teachers and lawyers in the latter half of 2016.