By Killian Chimtom Ngala | BBC News, Yaoundé |
Human Rights Watch has again slammed Cameroonian authorities for violations in dealing with the separatist uprising in the west of the country.
The government has not commented on the latest report, which alleges that severe beating and “near-drowning” have been used “to extract confessions from detainees suspected of ties to armed separatist groups”.
It alleges that these detainees are being held incommunicado at the State Défense Secretariat in the capital, Yaoundé.
“Over the past year the security forces in Cameroon have used torture without fear of repercussion,” says Lewis Mudge, Central Africa director at Human Rights Watch.
HRW also appealed to the UN Security Council to act amid the ongoing conflict in Cameroon’s English-speaking regions.
The body is due to meet to discuss the crisis on 13 May for the first time since the violence began in 2016.
Some English-speakers in Cameroon want to break away from the rest of the country, complaining that their educational and legal systems are being systematically destroyed by the Francophone-dominated administration.
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