Anglophone Crisis: Some Security and Defence Forces in Big Trouble for Torturing Civilians

Journalducameroun.com has reported that some members of the Cameroon military are currently in trouble following accusations of committing and filming violence against civilians.

Even though our source reported that no official communication has been made by government about this legal action against the accused military staff, it said that the accused were being held at the Yaoundé military prison for failing to respect instructions related to their professions.

According to journlducameroun.com, the accused are mostly gendarmes that forced and filmed two women from the English-speaking area to drag themselves in mud. The video made rounds on social networks and attracted severe opprobrium.

In reaction to this mess, the national gendarmerie prohibited its elements from the use of smartphones during field operations.

Recall that before the video that showed some two ladies crawling on the mud on the instructions of security operatives, another video had made the rounds on social media and showed some gendarmes torturing a man believed to be a general of Ambazonia fighters.

The defense ministry announced the opening of an investigation into the case, explaining however that it was an interrogation scene that went wrong because the individual had tried to defend himself. The gendarmes in question were also reportedly detained.

TCR has gathered that some other elements of the security and defense forces have been imprisoned in Yaoundé for various smudges.

Investigations were particularly opened after the denunciations made by some victims or organizations such as Amnesty International. However, the government of Cameroon considered the accusations made by Amnesty International as “exaggerated” and even baseless.

By THL