Armed conflict in NW, SW: Civilians caught between separatist atrocities, military crackdown

BY SANDRA LUM For over five years, a brutal armed conflict has been raging in the English-speaking North West and South West Regions. Separatist fighters, who have taken up arms against the state and clamouring for the breaking away of the North West and South West Regions into a state they have christened Republic of Amabazonia, having been clashing the military. But as the crisis rages on, there have been new twists with residents in some localities in the conflict-hit regions being caught between atrocities committed by Ambazonia separatist fighters and government’s clampdown on suspected separatists and sympathisers of the…