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Cameroon Women Protest Insecurity, Gruesome Murder of Civilians

Moki Edwin Kindzeka

   YAOUNDE, CAMEROON - Dozens of women in Cameroon's English-speaking
   southwest are protesting today against recent violence by suspected
   rebels. Women in the town of Buea say they are increasingly victims of
   the region's four-year separatist conflict.

   About 70 women all wearing dark dresses sing as they march through the
   streets of the southwestern town of Buea on Tuesday. In the songs, they
   say they are tired of burying their children, husbands and recently,
   their sisters.

   The Cameroon Womens Peace Movement organized the peaceful protest. Its
   spokesperson Agbor Magdalene says they were outraged by the recent
   slaughter of a 32-year old woman in the southwestern town of Muyuka on
   August 11.

   "The women of the southwest express unreserved indignation at this
   murder which is one too many in the long list of senseless killings
   perpetrated by suspected separatist fighters," Magdalene said. "We call
   on the government to track down the killers of Tumasang Comfort Aferi
   while inviting the population to give full collaboration to the
   security forces{military} in their investigations."

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