Military Killings in Santa Sub Division: One of the Victims narrowly escapes

• Family members flee as military intensify Manhunts
• Security forces storm hospital, arrest and kill suspects 
• Fru Ndi Reacts bitterly to the military brutality  

      Two victims of the Menka Pinyin massacre incident perpetrated by Cameroonian military are reported to have escape and are alive but their where about remained unknown as security forces intensify manhunt on them. The victims TCR learn are Ndiforwah Joseph Alloh and Alondi Moses Senwune all children from the subdivision.

It should be recalled that on Friday may 22^nd 2018, forces of law and order carried  an operation in a motel in Menka a village in Santa Subdivision and 32 people mostly young people were killed.

TCR gather from sources in the village that 3 men alleged to be leading a defense wing of the Anglophone struggle came to the village and told the Fon that they were there to recruit young people in the village to protect the village against military attack since the military has been burning villages and looting properties as they search for separatist fighters. “We never knew that it was a trapped to kill all young people in this village” the source told TCR

The 3 men are reported to have recruited over 35 young people with the support of the traditional ruler of the village. TCR also gathered that the 32 youth were to undergo a training session after which they were going to act as a vigilante group that informs and protects the village against any military invasion.

A young man name withheld for security reasons in an audio message circulated on social media said “I was suppose to attain the meeting in the hotel with other youth but I had some dresses to wash so I first went to the stream hopping that after finishing I will join them, while I was there the Fon and 3 other persons saw me and asked if I am not joining the rest of the youth in the motel I told him that I will join them after washing the dresses. Later I heard gunshots at the hotel and I started running and few minutes later I saw a car running on speed far away from the hotel I suspect that the Fon and other elites in the village were behind the incident” the audio said.

On the spot of the incident, corpses were sported around the hotel and a corpse of a girl was seen hanging on the ceiling.

3 others youth that were injured and rush to the hospital were said to have been pullout of the hospital by security forces and killed properly to wipe out any evidence of what transpired in the hotel before the incident took place. 

A family in the village said they did not see corpses of 3 of their sons that were amongst the youth in the hotel. Amongst the 3 corpses not found 2 were identified as Ndiforwah Joseph Alloh and Alondi Moses Senwune who till the time of this report have not been found.

TCR gathered that security forces have raided the family house of    Ndiforwah Joseph Alloh and Alondi Moses Senwune proberly to arrest and kill them but unable to find them.

Meanwhile the junior sister of Ndiforwah Joseph Alloh by name Azise Irene Ndeforwah is said to have received a phone call from the brother confirming that he was alive but has escape. Security forces have also been in search of Irine to get more information of the where about of the brother but Irine has also escape for safety.  

An SDF delegation led by its National Chairman went there on Saturday, May 26th. It should be noted that Fru Ndi, has made public statements about the killings in Menka,Pinyin.

“Security forces could have surrounded the hotel and used their military tactics and intelligence to stop these boys suspected of being armed robbers. The method they used resulted in the deaths of many civilians who joined the gang and those they abducted.  The secessionists do not steal goats, chickens, pigs and cows, and I have never heard that they raped a woman. It's a liberation struggle, but, unfortunately, thieves have infiltrated their ranks. Biya must get off his big horse and solve this growing problem every day with more killings that radicalize young people,” said the chairman. “Something suspicious took place in the hotel, how can you imagine that those that were only injured were taken to the hospital but the military went to the hospital arrest and killed them. Why were the military trying to erase all evidence if these children were criminals as the government said?” the chairman added.

As of now only those who manage to escape can revile what happen in the hotel provided they show up from their hideout. However, Should Ndiforwah Joseph Alloh and Alondi Moses Senwune show up anywhere at any time it is obvious that they will be killed. Family members fear for the life of their children and hope that they remain safe where they are.

The Anglophone crisis that started as a protest by teachers and lawyers escalated to an arm conflict.Hundreds of civilians including security forces have been killed since the crisis started in 2016. About 160000 people have been internally display according to Amnesty international and about 40000 more seeking refuge in Nigeria.

Over 100 villages have been burn down by security forces and the month of may have been the worst since the crisis escalated.