Time for the UN and the US State Department to issue more statements about the threat of “right-wing extremism.”
“Cameroon: Boko Haram Attacks Escalate in Far North,” Human Rights Watch, April 5, 2021:
(Nairobi) – The Islamist armed group Boko Haram has stepped up attacks on civilians in towns and villages in the Far North region of Cameroon since December 2020, killing at least 80 civilians, Human Rights Watch said today. The group has also looted hundreds of homes in the region. The government should take concrete measures to both increase protection to vulnerable communities and ensure a rights-respecting security force response to the worsening violence. “Boko Haram is waging a war on the people of Cameroon at a shocking human cost,” said Ilaria Allegrozzi, senior Africa researcher at Human Rights Watch. “As Cameroon’s Far North region increasingly becomes the epicenter of Boko Haram’s violence, Cameroon should urgently adopt and carry out a new, rights-respecting strategy to protect civilians at risk in the Far North.”
Human Rights Watch documented how a Boko Haram suicide bomber blew up fleeing civilians, dozens of local fishermen were killed with machetes and knives, and an elderly village chief was assassinated in front of his family. Research suggests that the actual number of casualties is much higher, given the difficulty of confirming details remotely and that attacks often go unreported.
From January 25 to February 25, 2021, Human Rights Watch interviewed by telephone 20 victims and witnesses to 5 Boko Haram attacks since mid-December in the towns and villages of Blabline, Darak, Gouzoudou, and Mozogo in the Far North region, as well 4 family members of victims, 2 humanitarian workers, and 5 local activists. Human Rights Watch also interviewed 2 victims and a witness to human rights violations in the region by Cameroonian soldiers. Human Rights Watch reviewed reports from humanitarian and other nongovernmental organizations and local media reports on attacks in the region and consulted with academics, political analysts, and representatives of the African Union, the United Nations, and the European Union. Human Rights Watch shared the research by email with Cyrille Serge Atonfack Guemo, the Cameroonian army spokesperson, on February 1 and again on March 19, requesting information about the Boko Haram attacks, the ongoing military operations, and the specific allegations Human Rights Watch documented. The army spokesperson did not immediately reply to requests for comment. Cameroon’s territorial administration minister said on February 12 that the security situation in the Far North region is “under control” and that Boko Haram is “living its last days.” One of the deadliest recent attacks was in Mozogo on January 8, when Boko Haram fighters killed at least 14 civilians, including 8 children, and wounded 3 others, including 2 children. As fighters shot at residents and looted homes, a female suicide bomber infiltrated a group of fleeing civilians and then detonated her explosive vest, witnesses said. “As the shooting started, I ran away toward the forest,” a 41-year-old resident said. “I heard a powerful explosion and lay on the ground. I saw a 7-year-old child covered in blood running toward me. He took me to the place where the kamikaze detonated her explosive vest. It was a bloodbath.”
The Boko Haram insurgency began in Nigeria in 2009 and then spread across the Lake Chad basin countries, including Cameroon. Boko Haram’s attacks are often indiscriminate, including suicide bombings in crowded areas that appear designed to maximize civilian deaths and injuries. Cameroon has had a sharp spike in attacks over the past year. According to a November 2020 report of the Africa Center for Strategic Studies, a United States Department of Defense think tank, the number of Boko Haram attacks against civilians in Cameroon in 2020 was higher than in Nigeria, Niger, and Chad combined….
The Cameroonian military has deployed thousands of soldiers to the Far North region to prevent and repel attacks by Boko Haram, but residents and humanitarian workers said the soldiers’ presence is far too thin to effectively protect civilians. Cameroon’s overstretched army is also confronting a separatist insurgency in the country’s Anglophone regions and the threat of cross-border raids by rebels in neighboring Central African Republic. It has relied on over 14,000 so-called “vigilantes,” community self-defense groups, and in some cases forced untrained civilians to carry out security tasks without adequate training or protection, putting them at great risk.
The Boko Haram violence in Cameroon has led to a major humanitarian crisis, forcing over 322,000 people from their homes since 2014, including 12,500 since December. Given the heightened insecurity, access to many areas is only possible with military escorts, making it difficult for humanitarian organizations to deliver aid while respecting their neutrality, depriving those in need of life-saving assistance. Aid workers and residents said that increasing the military presence and military patrols in violence-
prone areas, including on market days, would both improve civilian protection and expand humanitarian access by enabling aid workers to safely travel without escorts.
Munroe says
the UN? it is common practice for them to give the names & addresses to the CCP of dissidents exposing chinese human rights abuse’s,the UN, is just another slush fund organization like NATO the EU All filth???
Infidel says
It’s amazing how countries where muslims are just an asterisk in terms of the percentage of the population, like Cameroon and Mozambique, are places where they run their jihad operations w/ impunity
Cameroon should follow Angola’s example and officially outlaw islam in that country. Then send the army to just destroy those jihadists
gravenimage says
Infidel, I’m afraid you are mistaken about Angola. This is a rumor.
“Angola denies it banned Islam, destroyed mosques”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/11/angola-denies-it-banned-islam-destroyed-mosques
You are right, though–Camaroon is only 24% Muslim.
David says
Black Lives Matter must be outraged!!!
Don’t you think?
tim gallagher says
That basically peaceful ideology, islam, doing what peaceful Islam does day after day in so many parts of the world and has been doing for the whole of its disgusting, evil 1400 year history. And we still have so many people who don’t get it yet, and who keep telling us that islam deserves respect and is one of the great religions of the world. I suppose that, because it has a billion followers, Islam is numerically a great religion, but it is a hideous, bloodthirsty ideology, that’s for sure. It is staggering that people keep trying to tell us to be respectful towards islam. I suppose that these Muslim atrocities in African countries are not reported on much and most people wouldn’t know about them. I only read about these Muslim Atrocities here at Jihad Watch and I’m grateful to Jihad Watch for getting the news about these appalling Muslim attacks out there.
Walter Sieruk says
The Qu ‘ran instructs in Sara 47 :4 “When you encounter the disbelievers strike off their heads until you make a great slaughter among them…” Of course this n only one of many such places in the Qu ‘ran the give instructions in violence and killing for Islam. Some of the other such verse in the Qu ‘ran are , for example, 2:191.5:33. 9,5 111,123.
In spite of the Qu ‘ran’s horrendous instructions for Muslims to engage in the violence and killing in the jihad as well as the many jihadist/Muslims who actually kill people for Islam’s jihad ,some still keep repeating the same old nonsense and falsehood that “Islam is a peaceful ,non-violent religion”
That total balderdash !
gravenimage says
Cameroon: Muslims step up jihad attacks on civilians, murdering at least 80 since December 2020
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Just horrifying–the Jihad in Africa continues apace.
OLD GUY says
And Biden/Harris want to bring these loving peaceful muslim/islamic men to our neighborhoods. If you think this won’t happen here in America, you are mistaken. As the muslim/islamic numbers increase in the host country they become more emboldened to commit these crimes against non-islamic citizens. You forget they HATE America and want to KILL Americans. Thats not going to change just because they migrate to our country, it is after all a migration invasion of islamic warriors.