We Are Tired Of Burying Our Children

Women protesting similar woes of armed conflict in 2018 across

North West and South West Regions demanding for an end to hostilities

-Women Tell Biya

A group of women in the civil Society have launched a renewed appeal for  dialogue  to  end the armed conflict in the North West and South West regions of Cameroon stating that, they are tired of burying the dead.

                The appeal is the substance of a meeting which the women staged in Douala,  over the weekend in partnership with the Stand Up for Cameroon Movement of Edith Kah Walla. It coincided with the black Fridays which the Stand Up for Cameroon has been observing demanding for an end to the hostilities in Cameroon.

                According to one of the women of the Civil Society Elizabeth Nkwa, since the leader of the Separatists’ Movement SisikuAyukTabe and the president of the republic Paul Biya are all in Cameroon, it is good for them to dialogue to end the suffering of the population.

                Nkwa told journalists that, it is time for both the powers that be and the separatists to dialogue and asks their camps to drop their guns for peace to return. Nkwa believes that, through dialogue, president Biya can order soldiers to retreat while Sisiku will ask the armed fighters in the troubled regions to drop their arms.

                In a statement read to the media on behalf of the women, Nkwa questioned if the suffering masses of the two English-speaking Regions means nothing to the people of Cameroon and the world at large.

                Other women who made declarations at the Douala gathering lamented that, the crisis has forced them to learn how to bury the dead. They cried that, they are tired of burying their loved ones owing to the crisis.

                The women are demanding for urgent dialogue to end the crisis for peace to the return to Cameroon soonest.

                According to a leaflet crafted to send across their message, they civil society writes that “ We are women of the North West and South West  Regions. Our children are dying. Our families are in the bush. We are IDPs.

                Fellow Cameroonians are you not seeing us? Are you blind to our pain and our suffering? . Are we in the North West and South West Regions really your brothers and sisters?. We are tired of burying our children. Tired of hiding in our houses”. The women clamour.

                Prominent among the women and girls who turned out for the traditional ‘FridayInBlack’ movement besides Kah Walla was Popular advocate Barrister Alice Nkom.