Cameroon: CHRDA & Mamma Bolonia Foundation To The Rescue For Egbekaw-Mamfe Attack Victims
December 01, 2023
By Boris Esono Nwenfor
Officials of CHRDA and Mamma Bolonia pose with some items for the Egbekaw Mamfe attack victims.
BUEA, December 1, 2023 – The Center for Human Rights and Democracy in Africa, CHRDA, and Mamma Bolonia Foundation have provided humanitarian assistance to victims of the Egbekaw-Mamfe attack killed over a dozen civilians and others injured and homeless.
The two non-governmental organizations on November 30, 2023, in Mamfe made available some food and non-food items such as rice, salt, soaps and bedsheets were donated to the victims of the sad incident.
On Monday, November 6, gunmen are said to have attacked Mamfe, setting houses on fire and killing men, women and children as they slept, according to the Divisional officer Viang Mekala.
According to residents, the attack in Egbekaw was meant to foil celebrations marking the 41st anniversary of President Paul Biya as Cameroon’s head of state. Events were scheduled to take place on Monday, November 6 in Mamfe, and across the national territory.
“It is part of our goal to provide humanitarian support,” Barrister Nkongho Felix Agbor, founder of the Center for Human Rights and Democracy in Africa, CHRDA told Pan African Visions. “Since the crisis, we have assisted internally displaced persons, IDPs, returnees, orphans, physically challenged amongst others.”
More than 20 people were killed in the November 6 attacks with others left homeless.
Earlier this year, international human rights organization, Amnesty International slammed both the government forces and the separatist forces for killings, rape, torture, and burning of houses among other atrocities in the North West and South West Regions.
English-speaking separatists have been fighting government forces for the past years to carve out an independent state called Ambazonia. The clashes for the past seven years have killed tens of thousands and displaced hundreds more. Some figures put those killed at more than 6,000.
Government forces have been criticized by Human Rights Watch for responding to separatist attacks with a heavy hand, often targeting civilians across the North West and South West Regions. Separatist fights have also been condemned for killing, torture, assault, and kidnappings of civilians – the very people they seek to liberate.
