Anglophone crisis: Victimisation of alleged separatist supporters intensifies as crisis persists

By Elah Geoffrey Mbongale More and more youths are increasingly being victimised by the Cameroon defence forces as tension heightens in the two restive English speaking regions of Cameroon, for allegedly supporting or sponsoring separatists’ agenda. Reports are becoming very prevalent of youths who are either molested, flogged, detained or killed, without any fair hearing. The Anglophone crisis, which started as a strike action, November 2016, by lawyers and teachers in the North West and South West regions to decry government’s attempt to assimilate the educational system, has metamorphosed into serious conflict and clashes between the Cameroon defence forces and…