Cameroon clashes killed 100 people

NGOs are beginning to report the human cost of last week’s demonstrations and riots in Cameroon. In one shocking incident, hopefully not emblematic of the nation, “a group of demonstrators was trapped on the Wouri bridge (in Douala) between security forces stationed at both ends” while “many people leapt into the water. Eighteen bodies have been recovered by now.”

In another case, authorities intervened on a banana plantation where workers had taken their employers hostage. In the words of an NGO official, “There were many dead, but we still don’t know exactly how many.”

More than 100 people died in clashes between demonstrators and police in Cameroon last week, a local human rights group said on Wednesday in the absence of an official toll.

“We can already say there are more than 100 dead. News comes in to us every day and we are still checking it out,” Madeleine Afite of the Maison des Droits de L’Homme (House of Human Rights) said.

Serious unrest began on February 25 in the central African nation’s economic hub Douala, a Gulf of Guinea port city, and spread in four days to other towns including Yaounde, the inland capital in central Cameroon.

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