Anglophone crisis: Innocent civilians caught between the devil and deep blue sea

BY LUCY LIMA Since the start of the Anglophone crisis in Cameroon, civilians are frequently accused by both armed separatist groups and state authorities of supporting opposing sides. Extrajudicial killings, arbitrary arrests of innocent Anglophones, burning down of houses, villages by the military and sporadic exchange of guns between the military and separatist fighters, leaving the population under crossfire with many fleeing for safe havens, causing untold suffering and pains on the population have become the order of the day. The case of Doris Nama Lefangha, an Anglophone civilian from Kumba, chief town of Meme Division, South West Region, illustrates…