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*** 16-Jun-18 World View -- Cameroon condemns scathing Amnesty report on government atrocities

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  • Cameroon condemns scathing Amnesty report on government atrocities
  • Amnesty report documents increasing violence on both sides

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**** Cameroon condemns scathing Amnesty report on government atrocities
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Cameroon Anglophone separatist

Cameroon's public relations (communications) minister Issa Tchiroma
Bakary is condemning as "crude lies" an Amnesty International report
accusing government security forces of summary killings, arrests and
property destruction that amounts to ethnic cleansing.

As I've reported many times, the atrocities described in the report
began in November 2016,
when the
Francophone (French-speaking) Cameroon government security forces
began beating and killing peaceful anti-government demonstrators in
the South Cameroons, the Anglophone (English-speaking) regions of
Cameroon. The demonstrators were protesting systematic bias,
discrimination and marginalization towards Anglophones by the
Francophone government. For example, schoolteachers in the Anglophone
regions were forbidden from teaching any courses in English.

The Cameroon government, led by the 85 year old president Paul Biya,
has stepped up the torture, slaughter and other atrocities continually
since then, with numerous videos and reports on social media
documenting the atrocities. The level of atrocities ticked up
considerably in October, when the Anglophone separatists demanded
independence for the Southern Cameroons, calling it Ambazonia. This
week, there has emerged a new video purporting to show Francophone
soldiers forcing Anglophone teenage girls to crawl through mud in
front of the Cameroon Protestant College, as the men jeer at the girls
and refer to them as Ambazonians.

Last month when Peter Henry Barlerin, the US ambassador to Cameroon,
said that "there have been targeted
killings, detentions without access to legal support, family, or the
Red Cross, and burning and looting of villages," Biya's spokesman Issa
Tchiroma Bakary, said, "We do not accept the infantilization of the
Cameroonian nation."

So after this week's Amnesty International report, this same spokesman
Bakary said:

<QUOTE>"[The report] is stuffed with crude lies, hasty
deductions (and) slanderous, unacceptable maneuvering, which are
part of a strategy of harassment and destabilization of our
country in its fight against the terrorist threat."<END QUOTE>


That's how things are done these days. A country leader starts by
massacring, raping, arresting, torturing, and slaughtering peaceful
protesters of a particular class or ethnic group, and then when any
one of them strikes back, then call them "terrorists" and perform
genocide and ethnic cleansing on the whole groups. That's what Bashar
al-Assad has been doing in Syria, and that's what Burma's leaders have
been doing to the Rohingyas in Burma. If somebody complains, then the
leader's trolls say that "no evidence exists" of atrocities. AFP and Bareta News (includes video) and SCBC TV (Ambazonia)

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**** Amnesty report documents increasing violence on both sides
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There are increasing reports that the Anglophones are forming their own
army called the Ambazonia Defense Forces, with about 1,500 people
spread around 20 camps in the Anglophone regions. In most cases, the
people are farmers who had been forced to leave their villages, armed
with hunting rifles that are made in Nigeria.

The Amnesty report that the government calls "crude lies" is based on
interviews with over 150 victims and eye-witnesses. The burning of
villages and other ethnic cleansing can be seen in satellite images.

The report documents how Cameroon's Francophone military responded
responded to the Anglophone demonstrations:

<QUOTE>"Cameroon’s military has responded to these protests
with arbitrary arrests, torture, unlawful killings and destruction
of property. In one striking incident, satellite images and other
photographic evidence obtained by Amnesty International show the
complete destruction of the village of Kwakwa, which was burned to
the ground by Cameroonian security forces following an operation
conducted in December 2017 in connection with the killing of two
gendarmes by suspected armed separatists.

In some cases, following these security operations, people were
arbitrarily arrested and tortured while detained in illegal
detention facilities and in secret. For instance, at least 23
people, including minors, were arrested by the security forces in
the village of Dadi on 13 December 2017 and spent three days in
incommunicado detention. They told Amnesty International that
during this time security forces tortured them to extract
“confessions”, to force them to admit having supported the
separatists.

Victims described being blindfolded and severely beaten with
various objects including sticks, ropes, wires and guns, as well
as being electrocuted and burnt with hot water. Some were beaten
until they lost consciousness, and Amnesty International
documented that at least one person has died in
custody."<END QUOTE>


Ambazonian separatists have been increasingly attacking Cameroon
security personally. Between September 2017 and May 2018, at least 44
members of the security forces were killed in attacks at checkpoints,
in the streets, or on their duty stations in the Anglophone region.

<QUOTE>"Towards the end of 2017, the situation quickly
deteriorated. In October, demonstrations organized across the
Anglophone regions to celebrate the symbolic independence from the
country's French-speaking areas were met with unlawful and
excessive and deadly force. Cameroonian security forces shot dead
20 peaceful protesters, by firing indiscriminately on crowds,
including from helicopters. Dozens of wounded protesters ran away
from hospitals in mid-treatment out of fear of being
arrested. Hundreds were arrested, and thousands fled their homes,
becoming internally displaced or refugees in Nigeria. ...

Armed separatists have attacked security forces, especially
gendarmes and police, killing at least 44 of them between
September 2017 and May 2018, in both the North West and South West
regions. In one of the most recent attacks, on 1 February 2018, in
the locality of Mbingo, in the North West region, two gendarmes
manning a checkpoint were stabbed to death by a group of young
armed separatists.

Ordinary people have been targeted too. Teachers and students
accused of not participating in the boycott have been physically
assaulted, and at least 42 schools have been attacked by armed
separatists from February 2017 to May 2018 in both the North West
and South West regions. ...

In addition, armed separatists have attacked ordinary people –
including traditional chiefs - perceived as being informants of
the Cameroonian security forces."<END QUOTE>


Cameroon's last generational crisis war was the "UPC Revolt,"
1956-1960, which was a bloody civil war by communists attacking the
French government in the Cameroun colony. The outcome was
independence in 1961, when the British Cameroons colony and the French
Cameroun colony were merged into a single country, and the Anglophones
became a disadvantaged and marginalized minority. Today, the
Anglophone regions are known as the "Southern Cameroons."

From the point of view of Generational Dynamics, examination of
hundreds of examples throughout history shows that 58 years after the
end of a previous generational crisis war, the society or nation
enters a generational Crisis era, and a new crisis war can begin, and
becomes increasingly likely in each year after that. 58 years is the
length of time before the generations that survived the previous
crisis war and have personal memories of its atrocities disappear,
either retiring or dying. After that, the younger generations are
completely in control, and have no fear of another war.

The year 2018 is exactly 58 years after the end of the "UPC Revolt"
civil war. That doesn't mean that a new civil war will begin this
year, but it doesn't mean that the probability of a new civil war is
significantly higher than it was last year. The events in Cameroon in
the last nine months show that Cameroon is certainly headed in that
direction. Amnesty International and Radio France International

Related Articles


KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Cameroon, Southern Cameroons,
Anglophones, Francophones, Paul Biya, Amnesty International,
Cameroon Protestant College,
Ambazonia, Liberation Movement of Southern Cameroons,
Peter Henry Barlerin, Issa Tchiroma Bakary

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