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Cameroon Admits Military Massacred Civilians

Moki Edwin Kindzeka

   YAOUNDE - Cameroon's President Paul Biya acknowledged that soldiers
   killed three women and 10 children in a February massacre that they
   then tried to cover up by torching houses and blaming rebels.

   Biya's office released a statement Tuesday saying three troops were
   arrested for the killings in the northwestern village of Ngarr-buh.
   Several other troops were expected to face disciplinary hearings for
   the killings, which led at least 600 of the villagers to flee to the
   capital, Yaoundé.

   A spokesman for the Ngarr-buh villagers in Yaounde, Innocent Laban,
   welcomed Biya's admission that the military was responsible.

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