Military carried out ‘collective punishment’ on ethnic civilians in Kwakwa

By Talla Aghaa and Daniella Ngum in Kumba Two years after the January 2018 military raids in Kwakwa, a village in Cameroon’s South-West Region, Barrister Nkongho Felix Agbor Balla, President of the Centre for Human Rights and Democracy in Africa suggests the State Forces may have committed war crimes. Cameroon’s military subjected local civilians in Kwakwa to “collective punishment” through ground attacks, detentions that led to torture or extrajudicial executions, and the razing of the entire village, according to the head of the Buea-based rights group. Barrister Agbor Nkongho, himself a victim of the ongoing socio-political unrest in Cameroon’s North-West…