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The continuation of our picture story thread tracing why we trend the hashtag #EndAnglophoneCrisis
Check my pinned tweet for the beginning.
Check my pinned tweet for the beginning.
On the 13 December 2016 Hon. Joseph Wirba in Parliament spitting venom at the voilent approach used by the government to bed protests, "When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes a duty"
We saw the likes of what we had never seen...
As dead tolls continue to rise in these regions an inevitable outcome became more real as a raid on this ghost town day left 7 killed in a village locality in Buea
With the killings continuously on the rise, defenseless citizens who felt betrayed by their own government started taking up arms to protect themselves and their families
The result was the deployment of more troops to squash and eradicate these "terrorists"
This wasn't about peace anymore this was a war "they" came in and everything went up in smokes "Cameroon Burning" over some 100 villages were burnt down
With their homes burnt down, children, siblings and parents killed and with violent exchanges between the military and the "Amba boys" villagers were forced to flee their homes taking refuge in bushes and neighboring Nigeria
Even reporting the news had life ending consequences
Safety became the watchword even for the neutral and meek of heart "Rip"
And gradually the crisis began to show its ugly face. The same people who preached about defending the interest of their people began hunting and killing them. But what do you expect? "if you bring in ant infested wood into your home, be ready for the visit of lizards
They have killed men and women, did you not think they will eventually get to our children? This is our reality, this is our plight, this is our story. Four years in the making and yet no end in sight.
We don't care how it started or who landed the first blow.We just want it to end,we want our kids to go to school and return home safely, we want peace, we just want to be Cameroonians again. Is this too much to ask?
#EndAnglophoneCrisis
#EndAnglophoneCrisis
#EndAnglophoneCrisis
#EndAnglophoneCrisis
#EndAnglophoneCrisis
#EndAnglophoneCrisis
