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Amindeh Blaise Atabong
Yaoundé — Saturday's attack killed at least 26 villagers in the Akwaya district of southwestern Cameroon. Long-term interethnic conflict over land, according to local sources.
English-speaking rebels fight Cameroon troops in the southwest and northwestern regions in 2017 after civilian protests calling for more representatives of the English-speaking minority were severely suppressed. have started.
Akuwaya medical officer, Enow Daniel Kewong, has so far found 26 bodies and people after a Saturday attack on Ballin village near the border with Nigeria. Told Reuters that he was still missing.
He added that the village's integrated health center was burned down.
District parliamentarians, 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 unable to contact immediately for comment.
According to two local sources, the attack was associated with a fierce land dispute between the Ugare ethnic group in Valine and Oritis in the nearby Mabas village, a separatist fighter. Has worsened in collaboration with Oritis.
Attackers attacked awakened homes and indiscriminately shot mourners, one source said.
According to civil society groups, the ambiguity of such boundaries between different types of conflicts is becoming more and more common throughout the English-speaking region of Cameroon, where law and order have been severely disrupted. It has become. Before
Human Rights Watchhttps://www.hrw.org/news/2022/06/27/cameroon-separatist-abuses-anglophone-regions（HRW）は、カメルーンの英語圏の分離主義者が今年、殺害、誘拐、学校への攻撃などの暴力行為の数を増やしたと述べました。
"Armed separatist groups have kidnapped, terrorized, and killed English-speaking civilians. We are not afraid to be held liable by either our leaders or the law enforcement agencies of Cameroon, "said an African researcher at Ilaria Allegrozzi HRW, a senior executive in Central Africa.
Since January, armed separatists have killed at least 7 people, injured 6 people, raped girls, burned at least two schools, attacked colleges, 33 He said he had kidnapped up to 82 people, including 5 students and 5 students. teacher. (Written by Estelle Shirbon, edited by Angus MacSwan and Alex Richardson)
