CAMEROUNIAN SOLDIERS ALLEGEDLY UNLEASH MAYHEM ON VILLAGERS
There are multiple reports of chaotic scenes in a remote village identified as Kikaikoma-Bui Division, in Northwest region of Cameroon.
In an unverified video circulated on social media, it shows a number villagers, mostly old women and young children scampering to safety in nearby bushes after the Cameroun Military, Rapid intervention Battalion Special Forces (BIRs) allegedly stormed the village In search of separatist fighters known locally as ‘Amba Boys’.
Sources say the visibly angry soldiers burnt over 25 homes - a tactic used to punish villagers for refusing to give satisfactory information and an intent to prevent separatist fighters from using the suspected villages as hideouts to plan and stage guérilla attacks against government forces.
It was also gathered from a reliable source sources that a mentally unstable person was kiled by soldiers in the crisis on Wednesday. The yet to be identified person was killed at a location identified as Presbyterian Church, Nsaansah Quarter. Residents say that as villagers were fleeing from the soldiers, the mentally challenged man was person was seen celebrating their arrival before he was shot dead.
The unrest in Kaikikom village got to peak point on October 4th, in the aftermath of an attempted ambush by separatist forces on the convoy of the Cameroonian Prime Minister and head of government, Dr Joseph Dion Ngute who was on a peace mission in the area, through the Yaounde initiated Grande National Dialogue, a move vehemently rejected by the Separatists.
Fatalities have continued to increase in numbers and thousands displaced in the face of between the Cameroonian forces and the Ambazonian seperatists.
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