House Fire In Kwa Kwa : 96 year old woman burned by military

House fire in Kwa Kwa: a 96-year-old woman burned by the military

The locality has been the theater of bloody clashes between military and law enforcement

The war launched against secessionists by President Paul Biya continues to exacerbate the socio-political situation in Cameroon. It has been more than a month since these ruthless battles last, and the consequences are equally enormous in the loss of lives on both the civilian and military side and in material goods. 

Villagers in the English-speaking areas accuse the army of applying the Talion law in their localities. 

They would commit the same abuses as the alleged secessionists. They would burn houses and torture young men. It is in their misdeeds that a 96 year old lady was burned alive. Her name is Mami APIH and lives in Kwa-Kwa in the Southwest Region. Nothing remains on his property. 

His relatives are inconsolable to his discovery of his body completely calcined. 

According to the population, elements of the security forces have avenged themselves, have emerged in the night, shot in the air, burned houses, humiliated residents. "I have nothing left to lose. Where will I go at my age? Loose James Ojong, who wanders with his dog in the deserted streets lined with burnt houses - including his own.

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He is only 58 years old but features old man, worn by a life of work in the fields. Its existence abruptly rocked on December 18th. "They took me out of my house with my family and set it on fire. I have spent my whole life building my house and all is destroyed. Let them kill me if they want to, "he sighs. 

To meet the young people of Kembong and the surrounding area, one has to go to Nigeria, where they pile up in makeshift houses scattered in the border state of Cross River. At 90 km of tracks and forest paths, on the other side of the Manyu River, thousands of refugees from English-speaking Cameroon roam the suburbs of Ikom, a big city animated by cross-border traders - and, after dark , by armed gangs of kids. There are some people who have been wounded by bullets, old men, some of them blind, and thousands of young people who claim to have become targets of the Cameroonian security forces.