Gov’t & Separatists Trade Accusations Over Killings,
Beheadings
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| Gov’t & Separatists Trade Accusations Over Killings |
A scene of gunfire fire on armless individuals with bikes
set ablaze has been reported at the Mile 90
neighbourhood in Bamenda
,Cameroon’s restive North West Region. The development is known to have
happened early Thursday May 23rd according to locals.
Today’s
development comes amid a vicious cycle
of accusations and counter accusations between the government and separatists’ front liners over recent
incidents of beheadings and the Monday May 20th murder of a four-month-old baby
in Muyuka, South West Region.
Mile 90
is found on the road leading to Bali Nyonga on the fringes of Bamenda. The axis
has known terrible happenings since the crisis started.
A local
in the city of Bamenda told The National Times that, at least one person has
died following the early morning shooting. The same source said there are fears
of more casualties. Our interviewee said, some
locals escaped the scene of the shootings into the bushes.
In the
face of the incident, a viral video has
triggered outrage across the social media. The video shows a man lying lifeless
on the tarmac with his head ripped apart apparently by a bullet. The scene
shows blood spilled across the road. At least three bikes are seen in the
video on fire.
Authors
of the amateur video accuse security forces of opening fire on individuals
standing at a local village junction. The unknown narrators claimed the
man shot on the main road was fired at
without remorse.
Others
voices are heard in the video urging for international action to end the
crisis. Locals are overheard in the video calling on Cameroon’s colonial
masters and the United Nations (UN) to
step in and arrest the Anglophone crisis.
