Cameroon Crisis Trending Towards Genocide

The world said "never again" after Rwanda — but the civil war in Cameroon is trending towards genocide, according to this journalist-turned-refugee.

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00:00I left Cameroon in January of 2017 while I was on my way trying to run out of the country

00:08I actually met situations where they shot young people dead right in front of me

00:13and you see this is a very traumatic experience

00:30The situation on the field is one of total brutality

00:38The people of Southern Cameroon are being massacred in droves on a daily basis

00:43using all kinds of heavy weaponry and all of those things

00:48extrajudicial killings, rampant and unjustified arrests, torture, looting

00:55Perhaps they want to wait until it gets to the scale of Rwanda

01:00They started a manhunt for all of us, the rest of us had to go underground

01:18That same day, they disconnected internet access to the entire Southern Cameroon

01:25and made sure that they would hold everybody incommunicado

01:3095% of the workforce are Francophones

01:41All the top officials are Francophones

01:43The top management have never ever been entrusted in the hands of the people of the Southern Cameroon

01:49who are treated as second class citizens

02:01Many people have died, many more than 10,000 souls have gone

02:12I would like to remind the world that after the genocide in Rwanda in 1994

02:17the United Nations and all the superpowers came together and issued a policy

02:23They called it Never Again

02:25That policy indicated that the world would never ever sit quiet

02:29and watch such a human disaster like what happened in Rwanda to happen

02:39If they withdraw their army of occupation

02:42we sit down and have a kind of negotiation on exactly how we go our separate ways

02:49There is still a possibility for us to separate in peace

02:52But if they continue down the road that they are continuing

02:55what happened in Rwanda happened before everybody

03:00We are almost there