- Soldiers were in search of Ambazonian separatists forces hiding in remote villages
There are chaotic scenes as Cameroonian troops invade a remote village identified as Kikaikoma-Bui Division, in the Northwest region of the country.
In a video circulated on social media, a number villagers, mostly old women and young children scampering to safety in nearby bushes after the Cameroon Military, Rapid intervention Battalion Special Forces (BIRs) allegedly stormed the village In search of separatist fighters known locally as ‘Amba Boys,’ the popular name for the Ambazonian Defence Forces, a separatists group fighting for the independence of Cameroon.
Sources say the visibly angry soldiers burnt over 25 homes – a tactic used to punish villagers for refusing to give satisfactory information and an intent to prevent separatist fighters from using the suspected villages as hideouts to plan and stage guerilla attacks against government forces.
Sources also stated that a mentally unstable person was killed by soldiers in the crisis on Wednesday at a location identified as Presbyterian Church, Nsaansah Quarter.
Residents say that as villagers were fleeing from the soldiers, the mentally challenged man was person was seen celebrating their arrival before he was shot dead.
The unrest in Kaikikom village got to peak point on October 4th, in the aftermath of an attempted ambush by separatist forces on the convoy of the Cameroonian Prime Minister and head of government, Dr Joseph Dion Ngute who was on a peace mission in the area, through the Yaounde initiated Grande National Dialogue, a move vehemently rejected by the Separatists.
Fatalities have continued to increase in numbers and thousands displaced in the face of between the Cameroonian forces and the Ambazonian separatists.
Originally published by Eons Intelligence