English-speaking Cameroonians Massacred by Paul Biya’s French-Speaking Cameroonian Soldiers

The killings of people, including children by Biya's French militia on valentine's day in Ngarbuh

Paul Biya of Cameroun is one of the longest presidents that have been in power with an iron fist for over 38 years. Like most African leaders, Paul Biya faces a challenge in the country’s two English-speaking regions that is threatening to tear the country apart. 

The Ambazonia, the English speaking state that declared independence in October 2017, was confronted by the country’s French military crackdown which has led to an armed conflict resulting in crimes involving raping, arsons, and killings.

Below are some disturbing reports and horrific images from British Southern Cameroons (Ambazonia) Genocide Library, to reveal the atrocities and crimes by French Cameroun on the people of British Southern Cameroon.

 

From Ngarbuh, Mbiame, Kumba, Bafut, Muyuka, and all over the territory of British Cameroon/ Ambazonia, women as old as 70 were gang-raped by the French Cameroun soldiers, while innocent civilians were beheaded and others incinerated in their homes.

 

Pregnant women were killed with pride. In all, more than 3500 Anglophones (British Southern Cameroonians/Ambazonians) were killed by the French Cameroun bulubeti militias in 2020. 

According to the Amnesty International, the surge in the violence meted out by the Cameroon military in recent weeks, has led to dozens of killings and thousands of new displacements in several areas across the Anglophone regions, Amnesty International said today, ahead of parliamentary elections due to take place on Sunday 9 February.

 

Amid several reports of villages razed to the ground, Amnesty International's remote sensing analysis confirms the burning of more than 50 houses in Babubock and neighboring villages of Bangem in the South-West around 14 January. These acts by the army, including killings of villagers, are serious human rights violations.

 

In that month alone, about 217 innocent Anglophones (British Southern Cameroonians/Ambazonians) were killed. In the distant village of Mbiame in Bui County, homes were torched by the soldiers including a church. Three innocent civilians were executed and burnt by the military (see images and video below). 

In all, more than 200 British Cameroonians were executed by the French Cameroun military. More than 230 homes were also burnt including livelihoods. The village of Balinyonga was severely burnt including market shops. Pigs in pens were not spared. “It is a scorched-earth policy”, one resident concluded. “Why kill livestock, and nobody is saying anything?”

In February, the 88-year-old Paul Biya, who wears the crown as Africa’s oldest and most brutal dictator upped his game, slaughtering more than 160 in February 2020. Amongst the killed were at least 14 children and 7 pregnant women in Ngarbuh on Valentine’s day, 14 February 2020.

 

Biya's 2020 Valentine's day massacre at Ngarbuh

The anatomy of the Ngarbuh massacre failed to rain in the dictator whose thirst for blood multiplied. A week later he massacred at least 13 in Babanki Tungo, allowing a 4-month old baby to spend the night in the pool of his own mother executed by the French Cameroun Bulubeti colonial soldiers.

Editorial 

If African presidents can be very cruel to commit such barbaric atrocities against their own people, then how do we expect foreign governments that already want to reduce the population in Africa, for the rich resources on the continent to treat us? 

 

The barbaric actions of many African leaders against their own people, just to stay in till death, automatically give foreign powers the free license to commit whatever crime they want in Africa with impunity.

 

Sometimes“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed,” said Martin Luther King, it is, therefore, likely that the life or the leadership of Biya will one day come to an end in a disgraceful manner like that of Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe.