4, July 2018
Southern Cameroons Crisis: 18 Ambazonians transferred from Buea to Kondengui 0
18 Anglophones were transferred yesterday from Buea Central Prison to Kondengui Prison, Yaounde. These 18 detainees are currently detained in ‘Kosovo’, a section of Kondengui maximum security prison.
They have been kept in tight chains and were brutally tortured last night by prison guards who repeatedly called them Ambazonians. This prompted a strike action in prison by other Anglophone inmates today. One of them has a decaying wound; another is suffering with a broken arm.
As a result of pressure and the strike action by other Anglophone inmates, the prison registrar said, orders from hierarchy demanded him to keep the detainees in chains for observation.
This is a repeated pattern of treatment upon Southern Cameroonians and alleged separatists, none of their rights are respected, presumption of innocence seems not to exist and authorities act with impunity.
List of 18 Anglophones transferred to Kondengui maximum security prison, Yaounde on July 2, 2018.
14 were transferred from Buea central prison to Kondengui, Yaounde and 4 were transferred from SED to Kondengui.
1) TATI ERIC NGU
2) HARRIS BOSEME
3) NKWETATO ROBERT
4) IKOE CLINTON
5) ACHA IVO ABEN
6) JOHN MARINUS NDENGE
7) OBEN FRANKLINE TABOT
8) EYONG CHARLES
9) EFFIA GIDEON
10) ORDEMA FRANCIS
11) AGBOR TAKU JOSEPH
12) AWU GREGORY ASHU
13) TANYI ROBERT TATAW
14) JONG ORLANDUS
15) NJEYA JUKIUS BAWE
16) KUM NESTOR
17) AYUKEM FRANKLIN
18) FONJONG ARMSTRONG
By Barrister Agbor Nkongho
CENTRE for Human Rights and Democracy in Africa
4, July 2018
War in Ambazonia: There are no longer any words to describe Southern Cameroons’s horror 0
The senseless war in Southern Cameroons has exhausted all superlatives. Worst day, worst month, worst year, worst ever. To be sure, words can no longer describe the killings currently going on in Southern Cameroons. For the past few days, Cameroon government army soldiers have fired rockets and artillery in many areas in the Northern and Southern Zone.
Over the weekend alone, the French Cameroun government army killed more than 87 residents, including women and children in villages around the Muyuka and Muea districts according to a variety of groups contacted by Cameroon Concord News Group. The two year crisis death toll has now exceeded a thousand.
The state-run Cameroon Radio and Television reported on Monday that separatist’s fire from within the Fako County had killed civilians. However, what we do know is that Cameroon government troops have been responding to attacks from the Ambazonia Restoration Forces with strikes destroying homes and burning down villages.
The desperate situation and the near-total absence of any sign that further violence can be avoided have pushed many Southern Cameroonians to flee to neighboring Nigeria and some to French Cameroun. A Roman Catholic clergy who spoke to our correspondent in Buea wondered aloud if those inflicting the suffering on Southern Cameroons women and children still have words to justify their barbaric acts.
No doubt the so-called United Nations will express concern over the bloodshed, and that is it. Many more Southern Cameroonians will die, with words of sympathy ringing in their ears.
By Chi Prudence Asong, London