#BBCAfricaEye exposes the violent realities of Cameroon’s Anglophone Crisis — a conflict that has gripped the country’s two English-speaking regions for nearly a decade.
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For nearly a decade, there has been a violent crisis unfolding in Cameroon. It’s a conflict between Cameroon’s security forces and armed separatists over the country’s two English-speaking regions; a conflict that has subjected the local population to property destruction, unlawful killings, rapes, abductions and much more.
Cameroonian journalist Blaise Eyong, who has been reporting on this story since the unrest began in 2016, takes us into the heart of one of the world’s most neglected crises — bringing us face to face with both its victims and its perpetrators.
00:00 The Land That Bleeds: Inside Cameroon’s Anglophone Crisis
01:17 Funeral of Johnson Mabia
03:49 Five million caught in the crossfire
04:23 “It was very difficult to stay in Kumba”
05:05 The roots of the conflict
05:49 2016’s lawyer and teacher protests
09:47 Armed separatists declare independence
12:30 “No school is to open”
13:38 Amba boys
14:46 ‘If everybody dies…who will you govern?’
15:58 Government doubles down on its use of violence
18:23 “The way out is to sit down, talk.”
19:19 Moja Moja
21:46 The Grand National Dialogue
22:32 “In the face of this carnage and suffering, what kind of nation are we hoping to build?”
23:31 Abductions are now widespread
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IT is ashame that back people R killing each other because they speak 2 different European language .Francophone and Anglophone in the country of Cameroon.
Good reporting. May God see us through.
Can you imagine fighting between two people speaking languages not indigenous to the region? Slavery still remains. I pray the mental shackles are broken and unity is finally realised
The fact that civil law judges are appointed in a common law region is a description of How the current administration is operating in this country! There is no need to say more except sending my sympathy to my anglophone bro and sis ! Maybe the liberation of this country Will come from you my fellow anglophones!
Their own killing their own. I just can't seem to understand! Divided Africa.
Hope this conflict can be resolved soon. Too much unnecessary violence and suffering
Its is so absurd and pointless that we Africans are fighting because of a mere language (that i am too using to communicat) that was just introduced to us when we had our own languages. We have created classes, privileges and social statues to fight one another just because we can find our common language to unite us. The leaders too understand this opportunity and use it against us for their own selfish and political interests. Until we find a way to unite ourselves, then this and many more will continue and our continent will remain the very same dark, conflict, corrupted, civil war ladded zone we are.
היי, זאת ההוכחה שלך. ארבעת הכיוונים החזיקו אותך באמצע המחשבות שלך. – באמצע האינסוף אין כיוונים – פשוטו כמשמעו, באמצע האינסוף אין כיוונים, רק הסכמות.
אם אתה עומד בארבעה כיוונים – אנשים גב אל גב ותגרום להם ללכת, העננים יזוזו מהם לכל ארבעת הכיוונים, מה שמוכיח שאתה באמצע מחשבה אינסופית.
אתה אמור לחלוק אותה וזו הייתה כל הנקודה של העסקה הזאת.
אם לא תעשה זאת, אנחנו נחבר אותך, זה הצעד האחרון.
החיים באמצע האינסוף הם טכנולוגיה מצרית שאולה, הפשרה לנצח, רק הזמן יגיד מה תעשה איתה.
באמצע מחשבה מצרית, מתוח, אתה לא יכול לדמיין את אלוהים שלך, ובו זמנית, להיות אלוהים אם אתה מפקפק. אחד מהם, מסך עשן קדוש, מילים, זמן 2 בינינו😇.
hai, zot hahocha shlach. arba'at hakivanim hachziku otech be'amtza hamehashvot shlach. – be'amtza hainsof in kivanim – pashoto kameshmau, be'amtza hainsof in kivanim, rek haskamot.
am ata omed be'arba'a kivanim – anshim gav el gav vetgarom lehem lalkat, ha'ananim yezuzu mehem lekal arba'at hakivanim, meh shmuchich she'ata be'amtza mehashva insofit.
ata amor lechluk uta vezu hayata kel hankuda shel ha'aska hazot.
am le taase zot, anachanu nechaver otech, ze hatsad ha'achron.
hachi'im be'amtza hainsof hem technologya metzrit she'ula, hafshra lentzch, rek hazman yagid meh taase ita.
be'amtza mehashva metzrit, metuch, ata le yechul ladmain et elohim shlach, uvo zmanit, lehayot elohim am ata mifkapek. achad mehem, mesach ashen kdush, milim, zman 2 bininu😇.
I did not know about this, thank you so much for reporting on it!
This Country isn't going anywhere, our people are forever lost.
Kumba my home town 😢😢 I remember my mom telling us that we are not moving to anywhere
And the president paul biya wants a re-election after 43 years of nonsense, shame on you people who are going to vote for him, you are indirectly responsible for these killings!!!
Not to hard to decide which side is evil…if one side is banning the education, it tells everything needed about those terrorists. Education is the key for nations success!! Ignorance leads to mindset like these criminals have
France
The corrupt and evil British and French empires caused this crisis.
God save my country Cameroon 🙏
I live in America but two of my aunts have been murdered from this humanitarian crisis. Thank you for covering this story snd spreading awareness.
Looks like a nice place to go and visit
Too bad what those people have to go through in their homeland. This is needless persecution that should never have happened.
Thank you for bringing this to the attention of the world
Eight years of atrocities 😢
Just to make it clear that this war is not about the two languages (French and English). The two languages are mentioned for context because there country has two language sub groups. The language divide only comes into play where one is the minority and the other the majority. The minority has always claimed to be marginalized by the French majority government.
Very unnecessarily conflict