Cameroon’s head of state, President Paul Biya, has ordered the Minister of Armed Forces to deploy particular items of the armed forces to the restive English-speaking Northwest and Southwest areas.
The order is contained in a letter from the Minister of State Secretary Common within the Presidency of the Republic, Ferdinand Ngoh Ngoh, to the Minister of Defence, Joseph Beti Assomo.
“I’ve the honour to tell you that Mr. President of the Republic has given his very excessive accord for the deployment of a detachment of Special Forces within the theatre of operations of the second and fifth inter-army navy areas,” the correspondence reads partially.
The Special Forces embody the Speedy Intervention Battalion, popularly identified by the French acronym BIR, and the Multipurpose Intervention Group of the gendarmerie.
Their deployment comes at a time when youngsters are resuming faculty actions amidst threats of violence by Anglophone separatists.
By deploying the Special Forces, the federal government intends to place in place the mandatory safety measures in faculties, which have prior to now been targets of assaults by Anglophone armed teams within the two restive English-speaking areas.
In keeping with the worldwide non-governmental organisation, Human Rights Watch, the Anglophone battle has already resulted within the deaths of about 6,000 individuals and provoked a significant humanitarian disaster occasioning the displacement of over 600,000 individuals. Greater than 77,000 of the displaced had been pressured to take refuge largely in Nigeria and different neighbouring nations.
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