January 29th 2021, Buea Cameroon – A source at Cameroon Concord News Group has confirmed that another assassination has taken place by government forces. It has been reported that the victims were four minors all under seventeen. The “ethnic” war in Cameroun’s formerly UK occupied region is still using innocent people as collateral damage. In the past four years, according to reliable sources, over 20,000 people have lost their lives in the crossfire between forces of the regime in Yaoundé and pro-independence forces otherwise known as the self-declared Federal Republic of Ambazonia (2017).
The terror in Bamenda on Saturday, 23 January 2021, has caused anger amongst the local population and human rights organisations. However, a statement released by the Cameroun Ministry of Defense dated, 27 January 2021, labelled the insurgency as a misrepresentation of the facts. The official statement contradicts UK broadcasting Corporation, the BBC investigation report on 26 January 20
Reserved Navy Captain Atonfack Geumo Cyrille Serge, Head of Communication Division, Cameroon’s Ministry of Defence says four children killed by security forces in Bamenda on Saturday, January 23, 2021, were “terrorists”.
In a press release Wednesday, January 27, 2021, Atonfack said elements of the 5th Gendarmerie Region carried out Saturday’s killings at Meta Quarters in Bamenda.
“The Ministry of Defence hereby informs: in the afternoon of Saturday 23 January 2021 at about 2:00 pm, and following some information received from the population, elements of the 5th Gendarmerie Region carried out a preventive control operation in the Meta Quarter neighbourhood in Bamenda II subdivision, Mezam Division of the North West Region,” Atonfack wrote.
Archives The Cameroon military has been faulted for killing four teenagers in Meta Quarters, a locale in Mankon, Cameroon’s northwestern city of Bamenda.
The Voice and other local media outlets quoted eyewitnesses as saying that soldiers killed the quartet point-blank around 2:00 pm on Saturday, January 23, 2021.
The soldiers were in search of armed separatists in the area when the incident happened.
Three of the four victims, Ngalim Alucious, Ntakah Nelly Mbah, and Sale Sadam are residents of Old Town while the fought, Brian, lived in Meta Quarters.
According to eyewitnesses, soldiers found the teenagers smoking weed in an uncompleted building.