‘Black Hole For Human Rights’: Tit-for-tat Killings Increase in Cameroon

The wreckage of burnt out car is pictured, allegedly destroyed by separatists fighter in a recent attack, as a Cameroonian soldier (L) patrols the edge of the abandoned market in the majority anglophone South West province in Buea, on October 3, 2018. (Photo by MARCO LONGARI / AFP) Photo credit should read MARCO LONGARI/AFP via Getty Images

The protracted civil war between Cameroon’s army and Anglophone militants fighting for a breakaway state produced a new wave of violence in recent months.

Forty-nine patients narrowly escaped death on June 8 when unidentified gunmen attacked and burnt the Mamfe District Hospital in the crisis-hit Southwest Region that serves more than 85,000 people.