Bill Urges Blinken to Hold Cameroon Accountable for Human Rights Abuses

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during a briefing at the State Department in Wash., on Jan. 26, 2022. Brendan Smialowski/Reuters

Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif.) has introduced a proposal urging Secretary of State Antony Blinken to hold the government of Cameroon accountable for human rights abuses linked to Cameroon’s Anglophone crisis.

The Feb. 2 bill came after a damning report by Human Rights Watch that detailed the killing of children and women by Cameroonian soldiers during three separate military operations in the embattled northwest English-speaking region last December.