As armed conflict in NW, SW persists: Civilians caught between military crackdown, Amba fighters’ atrocities

BY SANDRA LUM The crisis in the North West and South West regions, which has morphed into an armed conflict has been taking 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 Anglophone cause with the use of defence and security forces. Security operatives have been indiscriminately arresting suspects. Sources say the arrested persons are being tortured and detained under deplorable and inhumane conditions. Some have reportedly died in detention. This has caused many of them to flee into…