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Reuters
Amindeh Blaise Atabong
YAOUNDE — A weekend attack in the Akwaya district of southwestern Cameroon killed about 30 villagers. A community exacerbated by separatist rebels acting as hired guns.
Anglophon rebels fight Cameroon troops in the southwest and northwest in 2017 after civilian protests calling for more representatives of the English-speaking minority were severely suppressed. It was started.
The Presbyterian Church in Cameroon said on Monday that the conflict in Akwaya had been widespread since April and there was a series of tit-for-tat attacks by members of the neighboring Valine community. .. Mavass on the farmland area.
The church said the violence this weekend began when an attacker from Mabas, backed by hired armed groups, struck a funeral on Saturday. The violence continued on Sunday.
"More than 30 people were killed, including children, girls, men, women and old people. In a statement, the church accused the attack of being" inhumane "and some were decapitated. I was there. " The statement included a photo of a corpse lying on the ground.
Enow Daniel Kewong, a medical officer in the Akwaya district, told Reuters that 26 bodies have been found so far and people are still missing. He added that the village's integrated health center was burned down.
District MP, also known as Martin Tyoga, said 32 people, including six Nigerians, were said to have been buried in a mass grave.
Local military authorities were not immediately asked for comment.
According to civil society groups, the boundaries of various types of conflicts are becoming more and more common in the English-speaking world of Cameroon, where law and order have collapsed.
Earlier, Human Rights Watch stated that separatists in the two regions increased the number of violent acts such as killings, kidnappings and attacks on schools this year. (Written by Estelle Shirbon, edited by Angus MacSwan, Alex Richardson, Alison Williams)
