Saturday, December 9, 2023

Whistle Blowing: Human Rights Abuse on the rise in the North West and South West; Most Health Workers on the Run and Wanted as Insecurity Deepens.



This is for their dear lives because the Anglophone Liberation war has taken a different dimension and it is all about money making, blackmail, set up, wanton arrests and out right human right abuse. True to what this reporter has observed following general uproar, it suffice at any time, at any moment for an agent or a spy of the regime or the state to set you up and you are picked demanding heavy ransoms. Just as when you are kidnapped by the armed separatists group. As the Anglophone Liberation war Deepens, armed separatists groups and Republican forces have resorted to using the war for money making and war gains caring less of the rights and dignity of individuals.  In Bamenda just as in Buea there are daily reports of assaults and gross human rights abuse conducted in broad day light on men, women, children and even old persons plus the physically challenged. This brings to mind the ugly scene of the cold blooded assassination of Florence Ayafor in Pinyin and other women over 20 who have been raped and heads beheaded in Kumba, Bali and Mezam. Last week in Ngarbu and Bali after fierce shooting children and old women were killed right inside the church. Not to talk of the situation where military stormed Mbingo Baptist hospital, the Bamenda Regional hospital and many other private health facilities to fish out wounded victims of the armed conflict and even those treating them. The case of Emetazi Jecenta Folefac working with Menji District hospital as a nurse treating wounded patients is obvious who was once attacked, arrested and seriously declared wanted the state security forces of Cameroon for treating separatists fighters. It is in the same vein that Doctors without borders were chased out of the crisis hit Regions of Cameroon, framed by the system for sponsoring the war and transporting arms. Going by the precarious nature and complexity of the crisis situation which no longer observe the rights of limits and international norms, the population is at risk and every body is running for his or her dear life. The armed conflict for the last six years it must be noted has caused the killing of over 10,000 Anglophone Cameroonians, over 200,000 persons internally displaced, schools permanently closed, health facilities, church and homes burnt down to ashes, economy put on hold and seriously grounded by cross fire exchange.  



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