SCNC activists flee Cameroon as crackdown by security forces intensifies

By Njah Nformi in Bamenda Many activists belonging to the Southern Cameroon National Council, SCNC, are on the run following heavy military crackdown, The SUN has learnt. This follows detention and torture inflicted on them by government forces in the wake of sustained protests by pro-independence and pro-federalist groups in the country since 2016. It all started in Buea and Bamenda capitals of the Southwest and Northwest regions of Cameroon. A peaceful protest by lawyers who were later on joined by teachers and students, turned ugly when they were beaten up and arrested by the military. The military shot at…