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Cameroon Soldiers ‘Raped 20 Women in Revenge Attack’

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Cameroonian soldiers on a revenge attack in a village nearly a year ago saw them rape at least 20 women, Human Rights Watch (HRW) says it has documented evidence of the attack.

The raid on Ebam in the Anglophone South-West region, an area where separatists are fighting for an independent state of Ambazonia, was one of the worst atrocities carried out by Cameroon’s army in recent years, the rights organisation said.

It had gone largely unreported because of stigma and fear of reprisal which discourages survivors of sexual violence from speaking out, HRW said, adding that there had been no effective investigation.

“One year on, survivors of the Ebam attack are desperate for justice and reparations, and they live with the disturbing knowledge that those who abused them are walking free and have faced no consequences,” said HRW’s Ida Sawyer in a statement.

HRW’s investigation included interviews between August and January with witnesses, rape survivors and a doctor who had treated them.

Witnesses said that more than 50 soldiers entered Ebam on foot at about 03:00 on 1 March 2020, breaking into almost all the 75 houses in the village.

A number of soldiers rounded up men, while others raped women, including four with disabilities, HRW said.

Dozens of men were detained and severely beaten and a 34-year-old man was also killed by soldiers in a forest by the village, the rights group said.

“Five masked soldiers entered my home,” a 40-year-old woman told HRW.

“It was dark, and I was alone. They searched the house and stole my phone and money. One of them abused me. He said: ‘If you don’t have sex with me, I will kill you!’

“I was too afraid to say or do anything. After the rape, I ran into the bush where I spent two months. I am still upset and traumatised.”

Witnesses said that the military operation was a reprisal attack to punish civilians suspected of collaborating with separatist fighters.

An army spokesman dismissed the report.

“We have better things to do than react to this report. Human Rights Watch is clearly complicit in the terrorists’ atrocities,” Col Cyrille Atonfack told the Reuters news agency, referring to the rebels.

Anglophone activists say the country’s French-speaking majority is marginalising the English-speaking minority.

The secessionist violence in the English-speaking regions of North-West and South-West Cameroon has claimed more 3,500 lives since late 2016, HRW estimates.

Both the separatists and government troops have been accused of human rights abuses.

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