SW Region-Cameroon: Suspected Armed Separatists Brutally Murder B.I.R. Element in Mamfe

An element of the Special Amphibious Battalion (BSA) was cruelly butchered with machetes by armed separatist fighters last Saturday in Mamfe, one of the hotbeds of violence in the Southwest region, reports have said.

According to sources, the victim whose name TCR got as Mba Duracel, one of the elements of the Special Amphibious Battalion (BSA) was attacked and then beheaded by suspected separatists while he had detached from his group to quench his thirst.

The security situation in the two English-speaking regions of Cameroon that have been plagued by a serious socio-political crisis for more than a year now, has deteriorated considerably in the space of a few months.

The Anglophone separatists, whose struggle for the independence of the two English speaking regions has led to the unrest, were at the initial phase of it, attacking symbols of the state, but now direct their attacks towards elements of the defense forces that have apparently become their prime targets.

Last April, 03 gendarmes were killed as a result of armed separatists’ attack in Bali-Nyonga in the North West region. A few days later, in May, a gendarme was kidnapped and murdered by the fighters in the locality of Ekona, Southwest region and his body found a few days later.