| As Civilians Killed By
Cameroon Army NRC and IRC Speak While Guterres
Refuses Press Qs
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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COURT, March 4 – As more and
more civilians have been
killed by the Cameroon
government of Paul Biya,
absentee president for 37
years, UN Secretary General
Antonio Guterres has largely
been silent.
Inner City Press
was informed by sources in
Guterres' own 38th floor
office that Guterres had made
a deal with Biya's UN
Ambassador Tommo Monthe as
chair of the UN Budget
Committee for administrative
favors in exchange for silence
on the slaughter or "subduing"
of the Anglophone minority.
When Inner City
Press asked about it, Guterres
used UN Security to rough
up Inner City Press
right after it interviewed
Monthe, and to ban it from
entering the UN, 610 days
now.
Others are
speaking up, in their way:
"The International Rescue
Committee (IRC) and the
Norwegian Refugee Council
(NRC) call upon all parties to
the conflict in the North-West
and South-West regions of
Cameroon to uphold
international human rights and
international humanitarian law
and cease all attacks on
civilians without delay.
The crisis destabilizing the
English speaking parts of
Cameroon has taken a worrying
turn, with an increasing
number of reports of targeted
attacks against civilians,
property and violations of the
humanitarian space. More than
700,000 people are displaced,
nearly 1 million children are
out of school, and the
humanitarian needs are
mounting. Survivors have
shared testimonies of gruesome
attacks that have left
children orphaned, people
homeless, and limited or cut
off access to public
facilities such as hospitals
and schools. “I have been out
of school for two years. The
boys stopped us from going to
school. They would beat you if
you tried,” said Charlene, a
23 year-old single mother. “My
teacher wanted to give us
private classes so we could
sit our exams, but they took
and tortured him”. The
conflict would take even more
from Charlene when her home
was burned down by the
military. “There was fighting
and the boys hid in our
corridor. The military set
fire to the house to catch
them. We became homeless. We
lost everything.”
Reports indicate that an
incident on February 14 in
Ngarbuh Village, North-West
Cameroon, left 24 killed, most
of whom were women and
children. This is only one of
several incidences of
disturbing attacks, many of
which remain undocumented and
impact directly the civilian
population. NRC, the IRC
and partners have also
witnessed attacks on civilians
during humanitarian
distributions. “We cannot
silently witness defenceless
civilians, who are already
suffering from extreme
deprivation, being attacked
while seeking lifesaving
assistance,” said Maureen
Magee, NRC Regional Director
for Central and West Africa.
“People in need of
humanitarian assistance must
be allowed to access necessary
support, without having to
fear for their lives.”
On February 16
Inner City Press from its
sources in Cameroon reported
on the killing of more than
two dozen civilians including
children in Ngar in NW
Cameroon.
Before 10 am on
February 17 Inner City Press
in writing asked
Guterres, his spokespeople
Stephane Dujarric and Eri
Kaneko about the
killings.
There was no
answer, and with Dujarric on
vacation in Orlando, Florida,
Eri Kaneko fielded only two
questions at a ten minute long
noon briefing
on February 17 that Inner
City Press was banned from
entering and asking
at. Since then
Guterres, Dujarric and Melissa
Fleming have refused to answer
daily questions from Inner
City Press on what has become
their genocide in Cameroon.
Now one of
the witnesses who exposed the
Biya government's mass killing
at Ngarbuh, Mallam Danjuma has
been killed and dumped in Bui
by government forces in
Kikaikelaki. And from the UN
of Guterres? Nothing. This is
Guterres' genocide. He has the
only press that ask him about
it, even from his propaganda
speech at NYC's The New
School.
This is Guterres'
genocide. Watch this site.
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