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Killings, kidnappings, stripping girls naked part of Cameroon separatist abuses, HRW says

A woman stands outside the damaged roof of a school's dormitory, after it was set on fire overnight in Bafut, on 15 November, 2017, in the Anglophone North West region of Cameroon. © - AFP/stringer

Killing and attacking civilians, attacking education facilities, kidnapping workers, stripping schoolgirls naked and beating them are just a few of the abuses Cameroonian separatists have carried out on the civilian population in the Anglophone regions, according to a new report by Human Rights Watch.

“Armed separatist groups are kidnapping, terrorizing, and killing civilians across the English-speaking regions with no apparent fear of being held to account by their own leaders or Cameroonian law enforcement,” says Ilaria Allegrozzi, senior central Africa researcher at Human Rights Watch.

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