Since 2016, residents in Cameroon’s largely English-speaking Northwest and Southwest regions have been protesting against marginalisation by the French-dominated central government.
*Tensions have been escalating through the years as separatist armed groups emerged to fight against government forces.
*Human rights groups said at least 3,000 people have been killed during the crisis.
*Seven school children were killed by unknown gunman last week.
“When the child who was wailing got to our home, he fell to the ground and shouted ‘Pastor! Pastor! They have killed Victory; Victory is dead. The child said some armed men came to school on motorbikes, went into classrooms and killed some children.” — Tamangoua Boniface,
a father who lost his son in the attack.
“Daddy, I am going to school.”
Those were the last words Victory said to his father, Tamangoua Boniface, as he grabbed his school bag and walked to his school on October 24. And that was also the last time Boniface, the pastor of World Restoration Ministry in Kumba, a town in Cameroon’s Southwest Region, would see his 11-year-old son.
Victory was one of the seven children who were killed when unknown attackers armed with guns and machetes stormed Mother Francisca International Bilingual Academy.
The brazen attack, which also left a dozen students wounded, shocked Cameroon. It also drew widespread condemnation from within and outside the country, including from United Nations agencies, international rights groups and local civil society organisations.
— AlJazeera
KIDS ATE LITERALLY RUNNING AWAY FROM SCHOOL BECAUSE ON SHOOTINGS ON CAMEROON 🇨🇲 https://t.co/6zy3a4tbg2
— ANGLOPHONE CRISIS (@zjawn) October 27, 2020
Video received: Women in Bamenda, Cameroon have today led protests demanding peace, justice and an end to the Anglophone crisis.
— Samira Sawlani (@samirasawlani) October 27, 2020
This just days after at least 6 children were killed following an attack on a school in Kumba pic.twitter.com/tyV6sMR4zn
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