The killings of people, including children, by Biya's French militia on Valentine's Day in Ngarbuh
Paul Biya of Cameroon is one of the longest-serving presidents that has 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.
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 rape, arson, and killings.
Below are some disturbing reports and horrific images from the British Southern Cameroons (Ambazonia) Genocide Library to reveal the atrocities and crimes by French Cameroun against 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 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 burned 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 quench 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.
