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Cameroon Rights Groups, Embassies Condemn Barbaric Acts Against Civilians

Moki Edwin Kindzeka

   YAOUNDE - In Cameroon, there has been widespread condemnation of recent
   barbaric violence against civilians in the country's troubled western
   regions.'¯In the past week, suspected separatists killed 13 civilians,
   including aid workers, with videos of beheaded women shared on social
   media.'¯

   In video circulated on social media in Cameroon, several men dressed in
   black order a young woman to lie down and then appear to behead her
   with a machete.

   The killers describe the woman as a traitor, an indication that they
   are Anglophone separatists.

   Cameroon authorities confirmed that a woman was beheaded on Tuesday in
   the southwestern town of Muyuka. It was the thirteenth such slaying in
   the last week in Cameroon's restive English-speaking regions.

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