By Soulemanu Buba
The past few days in Bali Nyonga in the restive North West Region of Cameroon have been bloody following heavy gunshots that sent many in to hiding.
The shootings left a nursing mother and a widow in her 70s dead, reported to have been killed by government forces.
The soldiers are also accused of breaking into people’s homes and looting properties before destroying some.
Inhabitants of one of the affected neighborhoods said they could hear the soldiers saying Gen. Bouba Dobekreo sent them to wipe everyone in Bamenda and the they should be ready for more bloody days ahead.
In one of the attacks, the soldiers stormed the Njenka Haussa neighborhood in Bali breaking Sunday September 18,2022 where they knocked at a door and it was a nursing mother who opened the door and was gunned down as explained by Ali, an Inhabitant of that neighborhood.
“The lady opened the door when she realized someone was at the door. A gendarmerie official at Njenka said immediately the lady opened the door they opened fire killing her on the spot. He said they also wanted to kill her baby calling the child a future Amba fighter reason why he should not live.”
Narrating what the gendarme told him, the witness furthered that “some of soldiers were seemingly not comfortable with the shooting to death of the nursing mother and warned that nothing should happen to the child even though the others were bent on killing the child.”
As if that wasn’t enough, the night of Monday breaking Tuesday was bloody for the Inhabitants of Sang, another neighborhood in Bali.
We are told an old woman in her 70s who happens to be a widow was killed by government forces who forced their way in to her home.
“They met her when she was preparing herbs for herself since she was not feeling well. She was accused of preparing medicine for separatist fighters and shot several times. She died on the spot while her son was taken away.”
It should be noted that three persons were shot and killed by Cameroon soldiers on the 21 of April 2022 at their job site at Njenka Haussa in Bali.
Civililians have continued to perish as the Anglophone Crisis persists with no signs that it will end anytime soon.
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