SDF creates Commission to Investigate Anglophone Right Violations

Following  what the SDF party says is government's intransigence to end illegal arrest, torture and detention of Anglophones in the North West and South West regions, the party has created a Commission to investigate right violations by security forces in the two Anglophone regions.

Clestin Djamen, National Secretary for Human Rights tells Cameroon Concord that the Biya regime has been publishing false information which the intention of circumventing the truth from the international Community.  He cited the case of the 2008 Hunger strikes where the Government "lied" that the death toll was 40, whereas international rights groups claimed more than 1200 people died. 

Djamen laments that many Anglophones arrested have never been put in jail. but disappeared into thin air. And the regime is trying to cover up that.  He explains that the Commission will investigate and establish the real truth of the matter. The Commission will be made up of NEC members, Senators and Parliamentarians, Civil society organs, lawyers and the press.

Quizzed on the way forward after the month long probe, Djamen reveals the report will be made known the international Community for legal action to be taken against the state of Cameroon.

The SDF has never hidden its dissatisfaction with government's handling of the crisis. The atrocities of the military has condemned the party to believe government is fighting an undeclared war with anglophones. The frontline opposition party has called for sustained dialogue on the form of the state as a solution to end the imbroglio.