Armed conflict in NW, SW: Civilians caught between Amba fighters’ atrocities, gov’t’s crackdown

BY CYNTHIA BIH The protracted crisis in the North West and South West regions, which escalated into an armedconflict since 2017 with the Ambazonian or separatist fighters on one side against the defence and security, has in recent years, taken a new turn. Today, innocent civilians continue to be victims of atrocities perpetrated by the Ambazonia fighters on the one side, and bloody measures by Government forces against those they think have an affiliation with separatists or simply sympathise with the Anglophone cause. Defence and security forces have been arresting, without due process, pro-independence Anglophone activists and anyone suspected of…