Armed conflict in NW, SW; More youths targeted, manhandled, declared wanted for siding with separatist fighters

BY SANDRA LUM The North West and South West regions of Cameroon have remained restive since the outbreak of the Anglophone crisis in 2017. Investigative findings and reports from many human rights groups and non-governmental organisations have condemned extrajudicial killings, by mostly the military on innocent civilians including children and pregnant women. As the crisis that has morphed into an armed conflict rages, reports say hundreds have been kidnapped, thousands of houses razed, over 750,000 persons identified as internally displaced, with over 45,000 living horrible lives as refuges in neighbouring Nigeria. Burning of houses, villages, ghost towns and civil disobedience,…