- Advertisement -“Boko Haram is waging a war on the people of Cameroon at a shocking human cost,” said Ilaria Allegrozzi, senior Africa researcher at Human Rights Watch. Human Rights Watch also interviewed two victims and a witness to human rights violations in the region by Cameroonian soldiers. It was a bloodbath.”The Boko Haram insurgency began in Nigeria in 2009 then spread across the Lake Chad basin countries, including Cameroon. Cameroon’s international partners should push for accountability for human rights violations and work to strengthen the civilian component of the multinational force and its human rights compliance office, Human Rights Watch said. International humanitarian law, applicable to the armed conflict with Boko Haram, prohibits deliberate disproportionate or indiscriminate attacks on civilians and civilian objects.

Source: The North Africa Journal April 05, 2021 13:18 UTC