Des soldats camerounais dans une rue de Bamenda, capitale de la région camerounaise anglophone du Nord-Ouest le 17 nove AFP/Archives/STRINGER
Two gendarmes, two soldiers, and four police officers are currently under detention at the Territorial Gendarmerie Brigade in Ndu for beating a civilian to near-death.
In a press release Monday, 15 February 2021, Navy Captain Atonfack Guemo Cyrille Serge, Head of Communication Division at Cameroon’s Ministry of Defence says the decision to detain the defense and security forces in question was taken by the Minister Delegate at the Presidency of the Republic in charge of Defence.
“On Saturday, 13 February 2021, an amateur video appeared on the web, presenting a man being interrogated, then assaulted and severely beaten by some elements of the Defense and Security Forces. The scene took place in the afternoon of Thursday, 11 February 2021, in the locality of Ndu, Donga-Mantung Division, North West Region,” the press release read in part.
Navy Captain Atonfack Guemo says the victim, identified as Jean Fai Fungong was “suspected to be a criminal relay and local terrorist.”
The press release ends with a condemnation of the acts carried out by the men in uniform.
Hear the military spokesman: “The disciplinary, administrative and judicial investigations prescribed by the High Command and opened by the local administrative authorities and the Defence and Security Forces, will help in determining the magnitude of these intolerable acts, which are in contradiction with the respect of the rules of engagement on the one hand, and on the other hand, the protection of human rights, which constitute cardinal principles to which the elements of the Defence and Security Forces are firmly bound.”
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Cameroon-info.net recalls that Adamu Shuaibu, Divisional Officer of Ndu Subdivision in Donga-Mantung Division had ordered disciplinary and legal measures against the state forces who tortured a man mercilessly with machetes.
A mixed squad comprising Cameroon's police officers, gendarmes, and soldiers beat Fai Jean Claude Yengong to near death on grounds that he refused to disclose the hideout of separatist fighters in Ndu and because his brother is a separatist fighter.
A video lasting 9 minutes and 35 seconds went viral on social media over the weekend. It showed the state forces pouring water on a man and taking turns to whip him with a machete.
In the video, a mixed force, comprising Police, Army, and Gendarmes, with unkempt hairs, are seen brutalizing a young man whose brother is allegedly an Ambazonia fighter.
One of the uniform officers is overheard saying 'Elanga Zime Bi', a statement understood to mean "We will deal with him, look at his eyes" in the Ewondo dialect.
As the video proceeds, they poured water on him, then used a machete to beat his stomach, his buttocks, and his legs.
"Where is your brother? For how long have you known that your brother is a separatist fighter? You will speak today," the state forces said as they gave the civilian snake beatings.
"My brother is in the bush. I know that my brother is a separatist fighter. I do not know his whereabouts. He is my younger brother," the man said.
Quizzed further where his brother lives, the man said he does not know. “I do not know where my brother is.
But they said he was pretending. The man who initially was filming took the machete and asked the young man to lie down looking up, he then beat his legs until he passed out. One of the soldiers even suggested that the man’s head be chopped off.
It is after he passed out that one of them said, "Leave him, leave him, to rest before you continue, we cannot tell if he is Amba for now."
After severe torture, The Post reports that Fai Jean Calude Yengong was released to his family and has been confined where he is receiving medical treatment.
The act is said to have been committed within the premises of the Ndu Council. Security forces are said to use the location for their operations, The Post reported.
The D.O. of Ndu said state forces carried out “the horrendous inhumane torture of a certain Jean Fai” on February 11, 2021, after a successful Youth Day celebration in Ndu. He says the security officers had the audacity to film and publish the act on social media.
“You are hereby requested to immediately launch disciplinary and legal measures against the perpetrators,” Adamu Shuaibu, Divisional Officer of Ndu said Sunday, February 14, 2021, in a fax to security chiefs in the area.
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