Separatists fighting to carve an independent state out of Cameroon's English-speaking regions have increased the number of violent actions this year, including killings, kidnappings and attacks on schools, Human Rights Watch said on Monday.
Anglophone insurgents began fighting the Cameroonian military in 2017 after civilian protests calling for greater representation for the country's English-speaking minority were violently repressed.
"Armed separatist groups are kidnapping, terrorising, and killing civilians across the English-speaking regions with no apparent fear of being held to account by either their own leaders or Cameroonian law enforcement," said Ilaria Allegrozzi, senior central Africa researcher at Human Rights Watch.
