The reports are in mid-July. In reality, the facts originate with the vast military operation undertaken by the Forces Armées Camerounaises against Islamic extremists of Boko Haram, active in the northwest of the country, on the border with Chad and Nigeria.
According to Amnesty International about 200 people would have been taken by the army in the 2014 in the villages of Magdeme and Doublé and of 130 of them there would be no more news.
The Ministry of Defense of Yaoundé, claims that 70 of those arrested, would have been members or supporters of the jihadist terrorist group Boko Haram, a very active year at the border between Cameroon and Nigeria.
The operation would have been carried out by the men of BIR (Rapid Intervention Battalion), Cameroon army department that depends directly on the President of the Republic. Very popular throughout the country for services rendered at the northern borders where the population is exposed to Islamist incursions, contends with Groupement polyvalent intervention of the Gendarmerie Nationale (GPIGN) the status of an elite force. The Cameroon army, considered to be of an excellent level by African standards, has about 30.000 troops and is supported by 9.000 men from the Gendarmerie. The enormous efforts made by Yaoundé to fight terrorism, which resulted in open war between 2014 and 2016, are now dealing with the concern of Amnesty, which intends to go all the way to reveal cases of torture, executions and arbitrary arrests.
(photo: Armée Camerounaise)
