Cameroon: Killings, Destruction in Anglophone Regions

[[nid:320434 field_ne_alignment_limited=right] (New York) – Government security forces and armed separatists have committed grave abuses against residents of Cameroon’s Anglophone region, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The region has been roiled by protests and violent clashes rooted in long-standing political grievances by the country’s Anglophone minority. Based on research in the region, satellite imagery analysis and video analysis, the 59-page report “‘These Killings Can Be Stopped’: Government and Separatist Groups Abuses in Cameroon’s Anglophone Regions” found that both government…

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